Jean Ann Williams | Author

“For it is written, ‘As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God’” (Romans 14:11, 12 KJV). Father, are we ready to give our account to You? Help us to search our […]

“Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing” (Romans 13:5, 6 KJV). Father God, lawing abiding is good. Help us to know when to obey the laws of the […]

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor” (Romans 11:33, 34 KJV)? Father, what beautiful, reassuring words for the ending of this chapter. […]

“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in” (Romans 11:25 KJV). [for the words ‘lest ye should be wise in your own conceits’ the […]

“Thou wilt say then, ‘The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in’. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear” (Romans 11:19, 20 KJV). Father, does fear here mean “respect”? Or does it mean “fearful” of us thinking we are better than […]

“If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh [Israelites], and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is […]

“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway” (Romans 11:9, 10 KJV). Father, even David a beloved king, said what Paul is saying. God, You are […]

“What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blind. (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day” (Romans 11:7, 8 KJV). […]

“God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, ‘Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.’ But what saith the answer of […]

“But Esaias [the prophet of the Old Testament] is very bold, and saith, ‘I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith, ‘All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people’” (Romans 10:20, […]