This I don't understand know1. Why would a gift leave? And not all that prophesy are prophets. At least that's what I've heard.
My younger days were when I was used in the gifts to others. Now, I've had experiences for myself. Ive been warring with His Word since 2010. Against illness. And I know the Word has power. Just keep on in faith and breakthrough begins.
I'm sorry, I didn't explain myself very well.
I wasn't suggesting that a gift of God would leave, though I don't know for certain bha but rather the reason why the man has the ability to prophesy. I do think however that the gifts are subject to the will of God, in that, they operate when He wants to reveal something.
And that is true concerning prophecies.
Indeed, not all are prophets that prophesy, even as it is written in 1 Corinthians 14.
Below is a roundabout way I received understanding of what I said above.
About 7 years ago, I was studying the bible when I came across two words that seem synonymous. One was the heart and the other was the spirit. Sometimes the heart and mind seemed to be the same as well. From there I had a desire to know how man was made up. So I asked God, and He started me out on the heart. I went through almost all of the 895 verses in the bible, with prayer along with meditating on every verse. Took me three whole months, but I finally got it.
Anyway, after that it was on to the spirit of man and God.
One of the thing He showed me was that God the Father, Jesus, His Word or the Holy Ghost, man, and the devil, all are able to multiply themselves, producing what the bible refers to as "seed". Another word for seed is offspring, and an offspring of and from a spirit is going to produce another spirit after its kind, because according to the law of genesis, everything produces after it's own kind. So that which comes from God will be like God and that which comes from the devil will be like the devil. One of the verses that demonstrates this is in Number 11:17 and 25. Look up the word "of", in those verses and tell me what you see.
I don't know for certain, but many of the gifts mentioned in the new testament seem to be temporal or sporadic, operating when God wants them to, in that they come on a person when they are in prayer or during church services.
Like it does for my wife. She prophesies only when she is in prayer, but God still shows her thing when she is not in prayer. Like where to find something. If something goes missing, sure enough, she will be the one to find it saying, "God told me to look here".
When a prophet wants the prophesy over someone, or if a person asks them to, they are able to prophesy, even at will. That is because the spirit that is in the prophet, giving him the ability to prophesy, is subject to the prophet.
This is not so with the gifts given to the church. Words of knowledge or wisdom, or revelations don't operate when we want them to but when God wants them to.
I personally don't know if the gifts stick around, stay in us or what, I haven't sought God on it, nor have I received any revelations on the subject.
I am open to learning more about it if anyone has something to reveal.
So to answer your question, I don't know if the gifts stay or go.
God did say that the
gifts and calling of God are without repentance or irrevocable.
Rom 11:29