Also, since everyone's dunking on the "That's witchcraft" thing — that is … not an unlitigated issue in Charismatic/Pentacostal Christianity, as it turns out! The conclusion boils down to: the line between Witchcraft and Prophecy is which supernatural being you're listening to.
If God tells you what's going to happen in the future, that's a prophetic gift. If you try to find out what will happen in the future from other supernatural sources (demons, ancestors, positions of planets, etc) that's witchcraft. Tidy!
The complicating factor, of course, is that ~prophecy~ is, Biblically speaking, a highly regulated profession and the Old Testament spells out in no uncertain terms that if you ~prophecy~ something and it doesn't come to pass you're a ~false prophet~ and you get stoned to death.
As such the modern charismatic movement and its adjacents tend to have a lot of enthusiasm for the idea of prophecy as a practice (rabbit trail: google Pensacola Outpouring, Toronto Blessing, and IHOP Prophecy), but there's a little hedging when it comes to the success metrics…
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