Building a prophetic life means we are to live on the cutting edge of what God is doing in the earth. I remember, many years ago, Dad Hagin describing the things of the Spirit as waves of the sea. He mentioned how we have to learn how to ride whatever wave God is on, and when it comes time for him to create a new wave we have to learn how to get off the old and get on the new!
That is a very distinctive characteristic to living a prophetic life. You never want to get stuck in a move that is not progressive. If you look back to every major denomination you will find that what precipitated its start was a divine quickening or revelation of the Holy Spirit. However, when men took that revelation and attached everything they did to that one truth, refusing to move on to further revelation, what began by inspiration eventually lost the prophetic note and staggered into becoming a religious institution.
It takes adjusting to the quickening of the Holy Spirit to stay in the flow. We never want to stop progressing because that is what living by inspiration is all about. It is what makes a move of God prophetic. Without the inspiration of the Spirit the machinery of man will always take over, and what may have been or could have been a thriving organism winds up becoming a lifeless organization. In other words, the sound of hammer and ax echoes throughout the building of the church like a systematic machine instead of the lively sounds of heaven filling it with life and purpose. It takes the inspiration of God to silence the flesh and all of its works (1 Kings 6:7).
What may come to one generation as revelation must be imparted by inspiration or otherwise it will pass on to the next generation as mere knowledge. If it doesn't maintain a prophetic flow, then the following generation will build on information without inspiration, and that will become problematic. The Bible tells us, "For the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life" (2 Cor. 3:6).
You never want to get stuck in a move that is not progressive!
This is often why revival wanes...it loses the current of life! Current has to do with an exchange or flow of power, but it also has to do with operating in the "moment," what we call being current. History tells us that revivals that waned came about because meetings simply stopped connecting with the transforming power of the Holy Spirit and ended up becoming just another gathering. They gradually lost the inspiration of the moment and failed to connect to a divine current or what was current.
Sometimes we distinguish moments in time as: key moments, defining moments, or kairos moments. These represent a classification of moments that are very distinctive. We might say they represent "a one of a kind moment." They are moments which carry weight and significance. They carry trigger points of inspiration that enable us to catch the move of the Spirit. When these kinds of moments occur it stirs the atmosphere into what might be called a prophetic moment, where things are teeming with life and are set to be ignitable or combustible. In other words, it is where the suddenlies can happen in any given "moment" in time.
Think of living in the suddenlies as characterized by Peter. According to Acts chapter ten, Peter went up on the housetop at around noontime to pray. The Bible says, "He became very hungry and would have eaten..." (Acts 10:10). This was not a declared fast. Peter simply got caught up in a spirit of prayer and wasn't released to go downstairs to eat. What came as a result of him staying in the "moment" of prayer allowed him to step over into the supernatural! Immediately he fell into a trance. His natural senses were suspended. He stepped over into a prophetic moment where God was about to create a new wave-one that would usher in a divine shift and would change the entire course and dimension of ministry within the church. This is what we must seek to apprehend for our generation...living in the moment of inspiration! 
