What is the craziest word of knowledge you have ever spoken or heard?

TruthSeek3r said:

By word of knowledge, I mean an spontaneous download of information about the present or the past that 1) is accurate, 2) there was no way you could've known that and 3) the chances of you guessing it right by pure chance are ridiculously small.

An illustrative example is Jesus telling the Samaritan woman that she had had 5 husbands in the past and that the man se was currently with was not her husband (John 4:16-19).

Another example, just from the top of my head, would be telling someone the exact amount of money they have in their wallet (assuming that it is a non trivial amount, including both bills and coins), telling someone what they are thinking (assuming that it's a super specific thought), telling someone some very specific thing they were doing at some very specific time, e.g. "you sang worship song [insert specific worship song] to the Lord in the shower at 8:00 o'clock three days ago, and after you sang that song, you said to the Lord [insert super specific prayer]. The Lord says that He heard your prayer and [...]").

Question: What is the craziest word of knowledge you have ever spoken (i.e. you received the revelation) or heard (i.e. someone else received the revelation)?

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GoldenKingGaze said:

Once a Televangelist gave a word quoting me at church. So this would have been recorded before I said it. I often got words like that in the nineties. She said, "Don't we all have a problem with folly and ignorance?" I had said to a fellow at church that I thought he had a problem with folly and ignorance. He at first was humble and got prayer and an encouraging word. But after became offended and began to abuse me and belittle me. I needed to get away from his unhealthy influence, and the word was an error, playing down the need to be free from the wounding.

So we do need more than scripture to test words of knowledge.

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spiritfilledjm said:

I mean, the televangelist isn't wrong on that. We should always keep in mind where we are and always practice grace and mercy when we are led to give some...constructive criticism and approach it in a way that we would want to be approached. Especially in those situations where we feel it may be coming out of left field. However, we should never let that stop us from correcting a brother or sister in Christ on something. It would seem the person, instead of taking the televangelist's word as confirmation, took it to mean you were out of line. I always try to remember Galatians 6:1 and have always mentioned this when I've had to correct a brother or give hard advice to one. As long as one doesn't walk away from you or the Lord, we should always continue the discipleship and restoration process. Discipleship isn't always fun and uplifting, in fact good discipleship has more to do with being corrected than it does with constantly studying the Bible. Take a beautiful gold ring for example, it must first be taken out of the dark depths of the ground where it is found, washed clean, put through the refiner's fire, having all the impurities removed, and then hammered, stretched, bent into shape and finally polished to a beautiful gold shine. The gold is taken from a small dirty nugget into a beautiful polished round shape. If it could feel, everything leading up to it's finish is unpleasant and painful, but then once it's complete, it is admired and appreciated which makes it all worth it.

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