Jean Ann Williams | Author

“And now, behold, I [Paul] am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may […]

“‘. . . how I [Paul] did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ’” (Acts 20:20, 21 ESV).   Father, the bold behavior of Paul […]

“Now from Miletus he [Paul] sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. And when they came to him, he said to them: ‘You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and […]

“And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the youth [who had fallen off the loft] away alive, and were not a little comforted” (Acts 20:11, 12 ESV).  Father, You once again showed Your power and mercy through […]

“And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, ‘Do not be alarmed, […]

“On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them [fellow believers], intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight” (Acts 20:7 ESV).  Father, Paul taught the people. Help us to find God fearing believers to teach us Your Word. And […]

I will be away from my desk next week but when I’m able I will send scriptures. “There [Greece] he [Paul] spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia” (Acts 20:3 ESV).  Father, You protected […]

“After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece” (Acts 20:1, 2 ESV). Father, the disciples protected Paul as we should protect one another as needed. As Paul encouraged, […]

“And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, ‘Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky? Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be […]

“And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his [Paul’s], sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater. Now some [the crowd] cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together” (Acts 19:31, 32 ESV).  […]