Paul was never a prophet.. infact Paul had problems even considering himself an apostle..(. the fact he was the only one to be given that title who had not seen Jesus before He died and rose again always left him considering himself the least of the apostles. I Cor 15:9)
Jesus did appear to Paul and did give him a job to do and Paul endured terrible persecution in order to carry out that commission. (Acts 9, 2 Cor 11-13))
It's interesting, when Jesus prayed and asked God the third person of the God head to send the Holy Spirit into the lives of believers, He did it for a reason. In John 17 he says that purpose was that "they may be one as we are one" and in Acts 1 it was that they would receive the promised Power from on high and the promise from Ezekial 37, that oneday the Spirit of God would dwell in people and not just on people. (Do you not know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit (I Cor 6:19) who you have received from God.
To accept Jesus as God demands an understanding of the Trinity - the concept of Father Son and Holy Spirit. When true Christians talk of Jesus, they know Him as John describes him in John 1:1...In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
John then states that "the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us" John 1:14. When we talk of Jesus, it is not just a prophet we are talking about. John the Baptist who was himself a prophet, says in John 1:29 after declaring that one would come after him whose sandals he was unworthy to untie.. that "Look the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world".
We are not talking of a prophet when we declare Jesus is Lord.. we are saying that He is the one who in Revelation 1:9 appears again to John in a vision of the endtimes and declares himself " like the Son of Man" and yet is worshipped by the Angels. The Bible states in Rev 1:7 that "he is coming with the clouds and every eye will see him and those who pierced Him and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of Him". He declares Himself "the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, who is, and who was and who is to come the Almighty.
May God himself bless your search in finding Him.
Carol_au