“Finally brethren, fare ye wel: be perfect: be of good comfort: be of one minde: liue in peace, and the God of loue and peace shalbe with you. Greete one another with an holy kisse” (2 Corinthians 13:11, 12 Geneva Version). Father, You always meant for Your people to be all these things above. Please […]
View More“Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction” (2 Corinthians 13:10 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul knew when to use stern words and when to use not. As should we when […]
View More“For we are glad when wee are weake, and that ye are strong: this also we wish for, euen your perfection” (2 Corinthians 13:9 1587 Geneva Version). Father, even in our difficulties we are to lift others up and be joyful in their strength in You. Be joyful in their following the path of Your […]
View More“Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill [evil], not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates. For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth” (2 Corinthians 13:7, 8 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul has […]
View More“But I [Paul] trust that ye shall knowe that wee are not reprobates [troublemakers]” (2 Corinthians 13:6 1587 Geneva Version). Father, others in the world may think Your Disciples are troublemakers. In fact being a Disciple means we will have trials in the world and by the worldly people. Help us to always give the […]
View More“Proue your selues whether ye are in the faith: examine your selues: knowe yee not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates [trouble makers]” (2 Corinthians 13:5 1587 Geneva Version)? Father, as we see our lost state as sinners, we can then accept Christ as our Savior. After […]
View More“Seeing that ye seeke experience of Christ, that speaketh in mee, which towarde you is not weake, but is mightie in you. For though hee was crucified concerning his infirmitie, yet liueth hee through the power of God; wee no doubt are weake in him, but we shall liue with him, through the power of […]
View More“I [Paul] tolde you before, and tell you before: as though I had bene present the seconde time, so write I nowe being absent to them which heretofore haue sinned and to all others, that if I come againe, I will not spare” (2 Corinthians 13:2 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul’s voice scolds those who […]
View More“Lo this is the thirde time that I [Paul] come vnto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery worde stand” (2 Corinthians 13:1 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul understood he needed witnesses to his sermons. That in turn they could spread the Word as a ripple out into the world. Through […]
View More“I feare least when I come againe, my God abase [humiliate] me among you, and I shall bewaile [make to cry] many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed” (2 Corinthians 12:21 1587 Geneva Version). Father in Heaven, this is proof […]
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