Jean Ann Williams | Author

“All the Saintes salute you. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all. [The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a citie in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.] (2 Corinthians 13:13, 14 1587 Geneva Version). Father, […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“But bee it that I [Paul] charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile [willinginess]” (2 Corinthians 12:16 1587 Geneva Version). Father, being Your Disciple is not for the faint-hearted. We must have discernment against evil, discipline in prayer, humility toward others, earnest searching in Your Word, […]

“Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children” (2 Corinthians 12:14 1587 Geneva Version). Father in heaven, thank […]

“And he said vnto me [Paul], ‘My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakenesse.’ Very gladly therefore will I reioyce rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes […]

“And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the aboundance of reuelations, there was giuen vnto me a pricke in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet mee, because I should not be exalted out of measure” (2 Corinthians 12:7 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul is showing us through his experience that […]

“It is not expedient for me no doubt to reioyce: for I will come to visions and reuelations of the Lorde. I know a man in Christ aboue fourteene yeeres agone, (whether he were in the body, I can not tell, or out of the body, I can not tell: God knoweth) which was taken […]