As someone who you might term "prophetically wired" I completely agree with this. I believe 99.9 percent of the time anything I sense as the voice of God is for me and me alone in any case, so I don't open my mouth.

On the rare occasions when I've sensed God explicitly telling me to tell someone else, I've done so (and have been surpised at the scary accuracy) but none of this makes me a better Christian or is intended as an ego boost for me in any way. I am far from perfect.

Sometimes I sense God tell me something about another person or situation, then he specifically tells me not to say anything because of the ego factor. Instead, he simply asks me to pray into it, privately. Ultimately, I believe he is more concerned about our character and humility than whether we can go around making ourselves look cool.

One more point: Shawn Bolz definitely blew it here. Other prophetic voices in America have also recently blown it big time with the Trump prophecy business. However, this doesn't mean they are always wrong or weren't necessarily hearing God. Rather, they were seeing through a glass darkly, and adding their own political bias to the interpretation.

Prophetically wired people cannot help but sense or see things, and sometimes this is confusing. I myself sensed what I can only call a huge black cloud of death approaching in the autumn of 2019, but I foolishly and selfishly believed it concerned a work situation and other matters in my personal life. Now it seems obvious what I was sensing, but I drew the wrong conclusion (privately - as the only person who I told about this was my wife).

In the case of the Trump prophets, some of what they saw was accurate. For example, one prophet I read accurately described the 6th January chaos ahead of time (around the summer of 2020). However, they falsely concluded that this meant a Trump victory, when in fact it was the other way around. They added their own bias.

This is why the prophetic is such a contentious area, and will continue to be so.