I mention this in all my posts dealing with the gifts, but it’s vital! Paul clearly states that we should pursue love (super important) and desire spiritual gifts. Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. Who Is the Gift of Word of Knowledge For? “A word of knowledge is a tiny portion of God’s total knowledge supernaturally imparted by the Holy Spirit operated only under God’s control.” The gift of word of knowledge is the supernatural revelation from God that gives you details or information about a certain situation or person, that is not known to you prier the revelation. (by implication) knowledge:-knowledge, science. But the gift is not the gift of knowledge but the “word of knowledge.” “Word” is logos in the Greek, which means “word,” “reason,” or “plan.” The Greek word for knowledge is gnōsis it means knowing. But I sure hope this structure helps to make things clear and easy to digest. Just a note for now I have skipped out on “when.” If in the future I come up for a when question or a helpful reading has some suggestions…I’ll add it to the post. If you are not familiar with the 5 W’s it basically means, who, what, when, where, and why. When writing on the gifts I thought it might be easier to break up information by answering the 5 W’s. – 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 NKJV (emphasis added in bold) 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.