All posts tagged: word of knowledge in the Bible

Word of knowledge reveals the name of a woman’s unknown birth father

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The word of knowledge is one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit that is distributed to believers mentioned by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 12. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; (1 Corinthians 12:8 NASV) It is defined as receiving revelatory information about a person or situation, either past or present, that a person would have otherwise not known about. And in a story on God TV, Deanna Shrodes shared the remarkable story of how God revealed the name of her birth father, through a word of knowledge. Deanna works in the ministry with her husband Larry where they pastor a church outside of Tampa, Florida. She had been adopted as an infant and never knew her birth parents When she was 27 years old, Deanna was finally able to track down her biological mother. Though they developed a relationship over the next 20 years before her mother died of cancer in 2019, she …

Did a word of knowledge save a Beirut pastor and members of his congregation from a massive explosion?

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An article on CBN tells the interesting story of what happened to Said Deeb who pastors Life Center Church in Beirut. The church is about a mile away from the epicentre of the blast that took place in the Beirut Port on Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020. Over 220 people were killed and 6,00 injured. The explosion took place when 3,000-tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ignited. Several people and staff from his congregation had gathered at the church that Tuesday morning to help cook food for refugees. But Pastor Deeb started to feel very uneasy about what was going on. He didn’t know what it was, but something was bothering him. He felt so agitated, Deeb even gathered his staff together to pray about it. But when this time of prayer didn’t change this deep-seated uneasiness in his spirit, Deeb finally just told people to put the food back in the fridges and go home. He also cancelled the Bible classes scheduled for children that afternoon. Deeb said unfortunately he may have come across as …

A church on the island of Barra that is part of the Outer Hebrides located off the coast of Scotland. Credit: A J/Flickr/Creative Commons

The first Christian?

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Though the term Christian is used today to describe those who believe in Jesus, it was never a term used by believers in the early church to describe themselves. According to Luke, the author of the Book of Acts, the disciples of Christ were first called Christians at Antioch (Acts 11:26), which today is located in modern Turkey. With a population back then of a half a million people, it is often considered the “cradle of Christianity.” Emboldened by the martyrdom of Stephen, the Jews began to aggressively persecute the followers of Christ. The disciples fled Jerusalem and a number went to Antioch and began preaching that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah both to the Jews and the Greeks (Acts 11: 19-20). Luke made an unusual statement, “a large number who believed turned to the Lord,” (Acts 11:21) which seems to imply that thought many believed Jesus was the Messiah, not all became disciples. Though the term Christian (Greek Christianos) was first used in Antioch, the term is only found in two other verses (Acts 26:28, …