Exodus 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

When did this practice stop?

We are so smart, so educated, and so popular that somehow we stopped allowing God to speak thru us. Or perhaps we stopped emphasizing the deep abiding relationship with God that allowed men to trust in God enough to let go of self.

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Pride is the obstacle to submission. How can we teach submission if we have not learned it ourselves. Being subject to one another is not agreeing with men that are older just because of age. Men who have a deep abiding relationship with God are the ones we need to be in submission with.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Prove yourself by knowing He is in you and that your relationship with Him has to come first before any other.

I fear we spend more time trying to prove ourselves to others that we neglected that first love.

Revelation 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

He would not have said it, if it were not true.