THE GIFT OF A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE
For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:8 A Word of Knowledge is a supernatural revelation or i nsight given by the Holy Spirit that allows a believer to know something about the past or present of a person, place, thing or a situation that would not have been known through natural means. In John 1:48, Jesus gave Nathanael a word of knowledge that revealed his exact location; where he was (...under the fig tree...) when he had a conversation with Philip a few minutes before he physically met with Jesus. In John 4:18, Jesus through a word of knowledge told the woman at the well in Sycar that she had been married five times and was living with another man she was not legally married to (...for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband....) In both instances, he had never met them before and was not revealing to them what someone else had told...