Jean Ann Williams | Author

“Casting downe the imaginations, and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5 1587 Geneva Version).  Father, we need Your divine help to keep us pure in You. The flesh is weak but Your Spirit is strong. Please […]

“Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh. For the weapons of our warrefare are not carnall, but mightie through God, to cast downe holdes” (2 Corinthians 10:3, 4 1587 Geneva Verison). Father, please help us in this spiritual war against evil. When there are hurts, it is […]

“Nowe I Paul my selfe beseech you by the meekenes, and gentlenes of Christ, which when I am present among you am base, but am bolde toward you being absent” (2 Corinthians 10:1 1587 Geneva Version).  Father, to know Your Son better each day is a blessing, a peace, and a joy for which words […]

“Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men” (2 Corinthians 9:13 1587 Geneva Version).  Father in heaven, as You give to us liberally let us give to others. Our time. Our love. Our sharing […]

“For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God” (2 Corinthians 9:12 1587 Geneva Version). Father, in You all things are perfect, blessed by You. The sorrowful, the joyful, the gifts that keep us grounded in You. Through Christ’s holy […]

“As it is written, He hath sparsed abroad and hath giuen to the poore: his beneuolence remayneth for euer. Also hee that findeth seede to the sower, will minister likewise bread for foode, and multiplie your seede, and increase the fruites of your beneuolence” (2 Corinthians 9:9, 10 1587 Geneva Bible) Father, as Your children, […]

“This yet remember, that he which soweth sparingly, shall reape also sparingly, and hee that soweth liberally, shall reape also liberally” (2 Corinthians 9:6 1587 Geneva Bible).  Father, working in Your Kingdom as a Disciple takes diligence to bring others to Christ. Help us to labor tirelessly for You. Through Christ’s holy name we ask. […]

“Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie: Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting” (2 Corinthians […]

“For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you. For I knowe your readinesse of minde, whereof I boast my selfe of you vnto them of Macedonia, and say, that Achaia was prepared a yeere agoe, and your zeale hath prouoked many” (2 Corinthians 9:1, 2 1587 […]

“And we haue sent with them our brother, whom we haue oft times prooued to be diligent in many thinges, but nowe much more diligent, for the great confidence, which I haue in you. Whether any doe inquire of Titus, he is my fellowe and helper to you ward: or of our brethren, they are […]