Earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. –1 Corinthians 14:1 (ESV)

Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. –1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 (ESV)

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Dr. Sam Storms, Understanding Spiritual Gifts; and the 18-session video study.

Ronald Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church. This shows that prophecy continued in the early church after the book of Revelation was completed. It also continued in the lives of the Catholic saints; monasteries; in The Golden Legend; the lives of the Scots Worthies during the Reformation; the journal of John Wesley; the autobiography of Charles G. Finney; and the countless testimonies of Pentecostal and charismatic missionaries. So it is completely reasonable to assert that the prophecy-related commands of 1 Corinthians 14:1 and 2 Thessalonians 5:20-21 are still binding on the church today. Only naturalistic reductionism, skepticism, and unbelief could bring a preacher to shoot down all of these testimonies of the miraculous. And this isn’t difficult for most cessationist preachers to do, because Catholics, Wesley, Finney, Pentecostals, and charismatics all fall outside of their theological traditions. It is Catholicism and Wesleyanism that are the two main contexts in which the continuation of prophecy has existed. But not exclusively! Cessationists really should have quite a problem with John Knox and his people in the Scottish Reformation, because they really did foretell, and not merely “forthtell,” they saw visions and prophesied the deaths of Catholic persecutors over and over! John Howie’s The Scots Worthies mentions those Calvinist prophets; and so does Jack Deere more plainly (see Surprised by the Voice of God, ch. 5: “Presbyterian Prophets?”; Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God, ch. 3: “The Miracles of the Scottish Covenanters”). See also the dreams and visions of Heaven and Hell that happened during the Great Awakening under the preaching of Jonathan Edwards (see Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire). A cessationist preacher, must either reject the prophetic gifts of the Covenanters and the Great Awakening, or accept the testimonies of those gifts. To ignore those testimonies would be the same as ignoring the commands of 1 Corinthians 14:1 and 2 Thessalonians 5:20-21.