Latter-day Saints embrace the biblically supported position that everyone, in one way or another, can be prophets. 

The Book of Numbers relates that there were two men of Israel named Eldad and Medad who supposedly prophesied without authority. A young boy told Moses and Moses was asked to forbid these men from prophesying. His response: “And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!” (Numbers 11:29)

The story itself distinguishes between the kind of temporary and charismatic leadership that can be held by other children of God and the “classical prophets who prophesied continually.”⁹⁸ Eldad and Medad as well as the other seventy elders of Israel that were with Moses were not Moses in terms of their authority. This principle continues in one form today where there is one head of the Church and he alone can receive revelation for the whole Church (Doctrine & Covenants 28:2). Each member of the Church must act in the office to which they were appointed (Doctrine & Covenants 107:99). Other members of the Church can be prophets in that they can receive revelation for their own lives by the Holy Ghost (John 16:13; Moroni 10:5). Also, the book of Revelation informs us that “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10). Thus, in a way, all people who have a testimony of Jesus have been made “prophets.”

How can we be made prophets today with this understanding?