13 July 2024
Word of Knowledge
● Word of knowledge comes by an inward revelation
● Word of knowledge can come through an intuition.
● Word of knowledge can also come by an audible voice
●By the Spirit of God speaking to you.
●The simple purpose of prophesy is comforting, edification, and exhortation
●1 Corinthians 14:3 says
But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
●Gifts of the Spirit often operate together .
●When you receive a revelation in prophesy, usually either a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge is included.
● As you speak in other tounges, you can receive a word of knowledge
●Also,during the interpretation of tounges, too one can receive a word of knowledge .
●An example from the Bible, we can see that an angel came to Cornelius in Acts 10
●So, a word of knowledge can be received through an angel .
●God has many means of doing things ,and this applies even in the case of manifesting the word of knowledge.
●God is using the Hungry hearted everywhere.
● All other spiritual gifts except speaking in tounges and interpretation of tongues can be seen in the Old Testament.
●These two gifts ,which are absent in the Old Testament, are only given to the Church of God.
●As this is a gift given only to the New Testament believers, it infact shows us how important this gift is, and we as New Testament believers need to use this gift as much as possible.
●In the Old Testament also we find the gift of Word of knowledge in several books. For example,
●In 1 Samuel, we see that Saul had lost his donkeys, which had either strayed or were stolen. As he was searching for them,someone told him to seek Samuel’s help.
●1 Samuel 9:3
●1 Samuel 9:5,6
●1 Samuel 9:15-16
●1 Samuel 9:19 -20
19 Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today; and tomorrow I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart. 20 But as for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not be anxious about them, for they have been found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on you and on all your father’s house?”
●An example for the word of knowledge in the OT.
●Samuel here receives a word of knowledge regarding Saul’s donkey .
●Samuel says that the donkeys were lost 3 days ago
do not be anxious about them, for they have been found
● All three (1. donkeys were lost,
2 . 3 days ago
- For they have been found. )
All three are word of knowledge .
●Using the” Word of Knowledge,” we can help people.
●Also in 1 Samuel 10:22 when people seeking Saul could not find him they sought help from the prophet Samuel about Saul’s where abouts and Samuel receives a word of knowledge about where Saul could be found .
●1 Samuel 10:21
And Saul the son of Kish was chosen. But when they sought him, he could not be found. 22 Therefore they inquired of the Lord further, “Has the man come here yet?”
And the Lord answered, “There he is, hidden among the equipment.”
23 So they ran and brought him from there; and when he stood among the people,
●Here,we notice Samuel receives a word of knowledge, which helps to find Saul
●Kenneth Hagin once received a word of knowledge that the Lord is going to reveal details about the lost daughter of a family who had come to him for prayer.
●The family had lost the daughter 22 years ago , at that point and they thought that their daughter was dead
●A woman of God in the church received a dream, in the dream, she saw a woman about 31 years of age,chained in a room and then she saw the girl’s father receiving a letter containing her whereabouts.
●Just as she saw,the Father happened to receive a letter from the daughter who was held captive ,and this led to her being rescued and reunited with her parents!
●So you can help people using the word of knowledge.
●In 1 Kings 19:14 Elijah says
And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”
●Here ,Elijah believes he is the only one left who seeks the Lord
●But the Lord replies and tells him that he is not the only one ,and that the Lord have reserved 7000 , whose knees have not bowed to Baal in 1 Kings 19:18
“Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
●Here Elijah receives a word of knowledge by means of an audible voice.
●As an exercise, please find out more examples of word of knowledge from the Bible and study them.
God bless