Welcome to today's inspiration. I'm Prophetess Tammy Williams and this is Pastor Liam Badgett with Signs and Wonders out of Knoxville, Tennessee at 2501 Magnolia Avenue. We are thrilled to be joining you in your living room today. When you see this, I want to wish you first of all a very Merry Christmas.
We pray that your Christmas is a beyond blessed measure of Christmas. We know that during this month of time people are really seeking, people are really pressing into a place of seeking answers and we're in times of uncertainty. From our nation, politically, physically, sickness. There's just so much of COVID.
There's so much going on right now. And people are needing answers and they not, we want to bring to you today just a little bit of revelation of when you're seeking the Father. You may be hearing God. You may be seeking God and you may not realize that you're actually getting the answers, but because it's not coming the way you might think it's going to come, you're like, is that an answer?
Is that God? How many times have we asked God? Is that you or is that my flesh getting in the way? So during this time and season that so many people are even separated from families for the first time in their lives because of COVID, we want to bring you encouragement and inspiration to hold that line.
Don't give up. There's been those that have been in isolation. And I can speak for him. Experience that this isolation stuff is for the birds.
I'm a people person. And so the isolation and quarantine that I've been in twice, I have been in quarantine. And I'd be calling my friend up here going, I can't handle this. This is not good.
So trust me. When I say I understand. And that's when you really have got to hold on God and really get into that time. If you're laying on your couch or you're sick in the bed or whatever, still continuing that conversation and having a conversation with the Holy Spirit.
So we're going to talk to you today from a place of words of knowledge and words of wisdom to help you decipher the difference. For those of us that flow prophetically, you know, scripture says that I shall pour out my spirit in the last days and I believe we're in the last days. I truly do that I will pour out my spirit that they all may prophesy. So that means we all can receive knowledge and wisdom.
That's part of the prophetic is what we are receiving from the Lord in this hour. And saints of God, it doesn't matter where you are in your walk. It doesn't matter as long as you're seeking him because Jeremiah 33 says, if you call upon my name and seek my face, he will hear your prayers. And he will show you mysteries.
Yes, I hang on to that word. When I'm like, Lord, you said in your word that cannot return void that you hear me when I call upon your name. So we're going to talk about words of knowledge first. And I want to let you know that words of knowledge is a revelation gift.
It is a supernatural comprehension of Christ and his word. Okay. Examples. Give us an example.
You give me your thoughts on this. Words of knowledge. I think that they come. It's like you said, it doesn't matter where your walk is with Christ.
Like when you're praying and that's that first thing that you get that first thought. Write it down. If you have a memory problem and I know the Bible says you've got to bring out things back to your memories, but I'm telling you, I forget stuff. So try to write it down.
First of all, you know, continue on in your prayer, but then whatever you wrote down, let's go look it up in the word. If it lines up with the word, I promise you, it was your word of knowledge. Absolutely. And that's, that's to me, probably the easiest way to understand what a word of knowledge is.
And it's going to edify. It's going to lift up. It's going to bring glory. It's going to bring glory.
It's going to bring unity. It's not going to be confusing. It's not going to be chaotic. This is what it's not going to be.
So if you can define what it's not going to be, it will help you to understand what it actually is. So essentially what she's saying is if it lines up with the word, then it's God. It's God. You're hearing him correctly.
I'm going to read to you. I'm going to give you an example. And if you can look up the Joshua and Aiken out of Joshua 7 10 through 11 and I'll talk to you and Noah about Noah about a word of knowledge here. Now this is Genesis chapter 6 verse 14.
It says, make yourself an arc. Okay. Now these are instructions that Noah was getting. This is what word of knowledge looks like.
Make yourself an arc of go for word. Go for wood. Make rooms in the arc and cover it in inside and outside with pitch. Right there, there was a word of knowledge.
If you get that kind of instruction, you better write it down because the enemy is going to try to snatch it. Always. When it's a revelatory word, he's going to try to rob you from it. I always advise everybody.
Sometimes, no, not sometimes. A lot of times you will get words of knowledge in the wee hours of the night about into the late morning hour because that's when we're the quietest. So when we're the quietest is when God begins to write upon your heart. And those are the words you need to write down immediately.
Now this is what we're going to talk to you today in simple 101. This isn't deep deep deep revelation. This is to equip you with power. Amen.
She's going to give you a Joshua and Aiken. I am. I'm going to read it back. Can I just say something about the Noah thing really quick?
It's amazing when you really read that story and understand that that's what God was telling Noah. And they'd never seen rain. So the concept of a flood was like, what? This can't be God.
It makes no sense. There's no flood. We've never had rain. But that's the kind of stuff that God does.
In your natural finite mind, it makes negative sense. Do it anyway. That's right. How long did Noah's hold on to what's going to rain?
For 120-something years. He stood. He helped. He never stopped decreeing the word.
He did not give up on the promise. He knew as he knew it was God. He held on to that against every opposition being told he was a fool. How many right now?
Are holding on to a promise from God? And everybody's telling you it's over. Everybody's telling you it's done. Everybody is saying, look, I'm living that one right now.
I am living it right now. But God says, hold the line. Don't give up because I'm going to back my word up. See his word won't return void.
Words of knowledge or if it lines up with his words, it will not return void. How long will you hold out? Will you hold out as long as Noah did? Go ahead.
Noah looked like a fool and killed the rain. I'm just going to say, I'll just hold tight to whatever God said. It's going to come to pass. Not in your time.
That's where we met the... Not in our time. It's his time. I'm going to read about Aiken and Joshua and I'll be in Joshua 7, 10 and 11 and I'll be reading from the Amplified Bible.
So the Lord said to Joshua, get up. Why is it that you have fallen on your face? Israel has sinned. They have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them to keep.
They have even taken some of the things under the ban and they have both stolen and denied the theft. Moreover, they have also put the stolen objects among their own things. That is why the soldiers of Israel could not stand and defend themselves before their enemies. They turned their backs and ran before them because they had become accursed.
I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from among you. So God would just say, listen, I know what they did Joshua. They did not listen to what I said through you Joshua. So you got to go deal with it.
You got to go into the camp, find your Aiken and at that point it doesn't mention Aiken's name but we know if you read on through there that's the one who took the stuff and he had to go beat dealt with. Sometimes God is going to put that on you and people are like, well that's mean and that's harsh but it's going to edify the body because you got one person who did the wrong thing that's messed up the entire camp. So you got to deal with these things. So Joshua had to deal with Aiken and sometimes you're going to have to deal with your Aiken who never that may be at the time.
God is going to be like, hey you're going to have to deal with that thing. They stole this, they said that, they done that, they're doing this. Whatever it is, not be at that but it's going to be something that's got to be dealt with. And what's so amazing about God in this is it was a word of knowledge but it was also a warning.
Look, if you don't get this person out of your camp, more destruction is going to come to you. So you were saying that a lot of people look at it and say, well that's a mean God. No, that's a loving God who cares to bring us warnings in this hour. And it's just last year so many prophets of the Lord, voices of the Lord has brought warnings to the body of Christ.
And because what people labeled as doom and gloom wasn't doom and gloom, it was warning. So the body of Christ could prosper. So the body of Christ could navigate through these times that were in victoriously because you know, the saints of God it says in scripture that the wealth of the wicked will be laid up for the righteous. That's not just a financial thing.
For the righteous. That means through wickedness the Lord is going to take care of the righteous. And if we will heed to the words of knowledge, the words of the Lord, words of wisdom that when we receive a warning that we go into prayer seeking God, okay God, how do you want me to implement this? How do you want me to navigate this warning?
What do I need to do? It could be, I remember my husband and I a few months ago we received a very direct word from the Lord and it was spoke to my husband and he kind of kept it to himself as he was praying. We were praying together for words of wisdom and knowledge and understanding and then the Lord gave me the word. It was the same morning to both of us and it was do not put your hands to anything that is tainted right now.
Don't don't align yourself with anybody. Don't do anything that goes against my word. And there was things that God when we said, okay God, we will we surrender. And there was some things taken from us that were like, wait a minute.
There was things that were revealed to us that we did not see coming. We did not we did not see it in the natural. And God had to give us that word of knowledge. A word of knowledge is a definite conviction.
It can be an impression or the knowing that comes to you in a in a mental picture, a dream. God speaks to us in dreams and visions or by a scripture that is quickened in you. You see, when I hear the word aiken and I hear that story and I think of Noah, I've all I keep thinking of in the Noah, what quickened in me was stand. God gave me a word in 2014 saints.
I'm still holding the line. We're going into 2021 and he was given to me a word in 2014 and there's only a remnant that heard the same thing. When there are those in the body of Christ in the body of Christ leaders that says I'm wrong. Well, then you're saying God's wrong because God's not released me.
When God gives you a word of knowledge, you have to toe that line until you're released from whatever command that is, whatever instruction that is. Did you happen to go to a light in the housing? Second Kings because I love how you bring it. Bring it forth while you're looking at it.
It's a supernatural insight or understanding of circumstances, situations, problems, a body of facts by revelation. Are you hearing me saints? This is without assistance. She's looking this up and she's going to bring you another example.
I want you to hear this. Thank you, Father. It is without assistance by any human resource, but solely by divine aid. Words of knowledge and words of wisdom are by divine impartation.
It's not going to come from humans. It's going to come by your dreams, by your visions. What's imparted into you through prayer. So do you see the importance of praying and seeking God?
Go ahead. I'll be reading 2 Kings 5, 22, 27 from the Amplified Bible. When Gahazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God said, my master has spared this name, Naaman, the Armenian, by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.
So Gahazi pursued Naaman and, so Gahazi pursued Naaman and when Naaman saw something running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, is all well. And he said, all is well. My master has sent me to say just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.
Naaman said, please take two talents and he urged them to accept and tied up two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to his servants and they carried them in front of Gahazi. When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house for safekeeping and sent them in a way and left. Then he went in and stood before his master, Elisha and asked him, where have you been, Gahazi? He said your servant went nowhere.
Elisha said to him, did my heart not go with you? When the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a proper time to accept money and clothing and all of orchards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.
So Gahazi departed from his presence, a leper as white as snow. Talk about it. Talk about that. Y'all have to really read and understand the word of God and understand when he, everything that comes from him is not a good word, not meaning that he's not a good God, but it's not, I'm struggling for the word to put right there.
It's not pleasant. It's not rainbows and butterflies. It's sometimes it's a word of warning and sometimes it seems harsh and it seems, oh my God, can that be my loving God? Yes.
He's letting you know, don't do this and don't do that, but stay the course to hold the line, go straight forward or these things will happen. So if you don't listen and you don't understand because you don't want to hear the harshness of it, then you're missing out a whole lot of words and knowledge and wisdom. You're missing out on so much that the Lord has to say where you can help a literal body. It's more than just me, this physical thing that I'm in, but it's a body of Christ as a whole.
And that could be in another country. That could be on the other coast of the United States. That's right. But because I listen and I'm going to come and be like, you know what, tell me I had this dream, I got this word of knowledge and it's not very good, but I'm going to share it.
And that's what you have to do because if I've got to bring you warning, I need to bring you warning. If I need to come to you and say, hey, it's time to prepare, there's going to be a famine in the land, go prepare. But we've been saying that these last few days or these last few months. I had said at the beginning of the year, I said November, December, and January, we're going to be the toughest time for even the body of Christ and that you prepare.
Put some food aside, put some cash away, hide it, not in a bank, but have it ready. We've been preparing for you and I cannot tell you how much opposition I got by releasing that warning. That warning wasn't to be doing loom, that warning was to prepare and it starts in you first. And then God will say, go tell my people.
He says, go tell my people. He's saying, go tell my people to prepare so that we can navigate it. So we should really be praising God and giving God glory that he loves us so much because a father who loves their children will correct them or bring them warnings when we are children. The easiest analogy is, I have a grandbaby that's going to be almost three.
And when they go up to the stove, you go, no, don't catch, that's caught. It's the same way that our father is. Now that was a very simple analogy. But words of knowledge are very powerful.
There's power in God's word and there's strength in God's word. And let me encourage you on this part. When you hear a word of knowledge and you act on it, the Lord then knows he can trust you with that word. So guess what?
He's going to start speaking to you even more and you'll start getting more words of knowledge. And then you'll get wisdom with it. Because as I said, words of knowledge is a revelation gift. The gift of the word of knowledge is spiritual revelation of divine will, divine will, not our will.
Right. That is not from a flesh side, from the spirit side of God. It involves moral wisdom from right living and relationships. The more God speaks to you.
Three words that the Lord had given me and I know Pastor Leanne's heard me say this a hundred times. God has really been, when I heard these three words, it was almost like in bold type of, my people need to have a clean, a pure heart, a renewed mind and clean hands. I've been hearing it over and over and over again. And it's almost like how you see these words on this page, but it was big words.
Like this. And I just kept seeing it over and over again. Because the more that we ask the Lord to purify our hearts, cleanse our lips with coal, wash us wide as snow, then those words of knowledge and instruction will just begin to flow. And you'll find where you may see other people navigating some that they're making mistakes.
They're not being provided for. It's going to be you to provide for them and to show them the love of Christ because you obeyed the word of the Lord. You obeyed. The gifts of the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge function together.
Knowledge is raw material and wisdom is built on it. You have to have the knowledge first and then the wisdom is built upon. When you obey one command, it not only becomes knowledge, it becomes wisdom, and you're building from there. The Lord is trying to build a foundation in his people that no matter what the times and seasons that we enter into, Saints of God, your season may feel like you're in a drought.
But I want to tell you, if you're not seeking, if you're not worshiping, first of all, the rocks will cry out. That's scripture. But if you are seeking and you're pushing into that presence and that time with the Lord, and he starts beginning to speak to your heart, speaking to your streamline, speaking to those things, the desires of your heart. We have desires, but we have to have instructions for those to manifest.
We can't just say, you know, I know so many people have received prophetic words in this last year. I've given prophetic words in this last year. I've prophesied over people, which are words of knowledge. They could be words of healing, words of knowledge could be about healing.
You know, this person may be saying, you may be having somebody and all of a sudden you feel a chest pain. And you're like, well, that's not for me. I'm a healthy other horse. You may be feeling someone else's pain.
That's a word of knowledge. You pray for that person. But all these people are waiting on these prophetic words to come to pass. And they're praying into it and you may be getting words of knowledge.
And those words of knowledge may be either adding to that prophetic word, it may be giving you instruction, because faith without works is dead. You got to work the word and the word will work. So if you've received a word of knowledge or you've received prophetic utterance given to you, you better start praying in it. You better write it down.
You better start saying, okay, God, where in your word does this prophetic word line up? And I'm going to best some bubbles, but I'm going to say it. You receive a prophetic word and it don't line up with the word. You don't receive it.
You put it on a shelf. Now I'm speaking truth right now. This is so heavy on my heart because of the gift I flow in. I'm hearing things.
I'm seeing things. But I want to tell you, if you cannot take what you receive to the word, it's not God. And I can tell you, you can receive words all day long that you're going to prosper and you're going to get millions and thousands of dollars. But if you're not a steward that can handle that, it ain't going to happen.
So it doesn't go with the word of God for your life. At that moment, can you go to the Word? We've got to work it. We've got to look at it.
We've got to, you know, so many people going to prayer lines and wanting a word. And they're saying they're praying the whole time, not even hearing the word. There you go. Got to listen.
Be quiet. Listen to what somebody is speaking into your life. If there's not a witness, if you're getting words of knowledge and your prayer closet and words of wisdom and your prayer closet, and something has spoke to you and that gut feeling, that's God. That gut, my mama told me a long time ago, that gut feeling, that's your first word of knowledge.
You're going to have a witness. You're going to have a witness in your spirit. If you have a witness, listen. Listen to the rest of whatever they're saying to you.
If somebody's praying for you and it don't feel right and it don't sound right, back up. Walk away. Hear me on this. You are accountable for your own salvation.
You have to work out your own salvation. So if you don't take anything from this today, you weigh every word spoken over. You weigh every word that we spoke. You go to these scriptures that we've given to you.
Just in these two examples, study it. Pray, say, God, give me words of knowledge for my life. Do your part. God says in his scripture, study to show yourself a proof.
When somebody gives you scripture, do you do that? Do you look up every scripture? I pray into it because you want to know. What do you want to know?
I want to know that it's from the Lord. I want to be able to receive it. If I don't know, then I want to prove it. I want to know that it's from you.
Have you ever received a word or even a word of knowledge? Somebody says I just have a word of knowledge. I'm not talking about that state of the Lord, but it's a word of knowledge. Have you had it to where you're like, I don't know what to do with this?
I don't think. I don't digest it. But did you discount the person? No.
You see, thanks to God. You don't write off somebody just because you don't witness it. You miss it. I miss it.
So I want to encourage you today. It's okay to miss it. But you've got to show yourself the word of God. You've got to get into the word of God and enclosing what would you like to say on this?
Because we're on to continue. I would just like to say that if you remember Noah and we talked about him saying it's going to rank for 125 years. If you get a word of knowledge and you know that you know that it's the Lord, then you keep giving it. Because over in Psalm 37 it says I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their seed, beg and bread.
So if you continue to give that word, know that it will come to pass because you are the righteousness of God in Christ. And if you're given the word that he gave it's going to come. So you don't have to fret. And if you're being told to prepare them prepare because again you can go right back to Psalm 37.
I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their seed, beg and bread. Sometimes you got to store. Sometimes you got to prepare. Sometimes you got to do what you're not comfortable doing.
Amen. God bless you until next time. We love you. I appreciate y'all watching our show this evening.
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