Jean Ann Williams | Author

“Haue I committed an offence, because I abased [degrade/belittle] my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely” (2 Corinthians 11:7 1587 Geneva Version)?  Father, Paul was a perfect example of humbleness and placing others above himself. Please give us the humble spirit we so need […]

“Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles. And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you wee haue beene made manifest to the vttermost, in all things” (2 Corinthians 11: 5, 6 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul was against You, and […]

“But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corrupt from the simplicitie that is in Christ. For if he that commeth, preacheth another Iesus whome we haue not preached: or if yee receiue another spirite whome ye haue not receiued: either another Gospell, which yee haue […]

“Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present. For wee dare not make our selues of the nomber, or to compare our selues to them, which praise themselues: but they vnderstand not that they […]

“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 […]

“Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke: That also their abundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie: As it is written, ‘Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had […]

“And I shewe my minde herein: for this is expedient for you, which haue begun not to doe onely, but also to will, a yeare agoe. Nowe therefore performe to doe it also, that as there was a readinesse to will, euen so yee may performe it of that which yee haue” (2 Corinthians 8:10, […]

“For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9 1587 Geneva).  Father, being rich in Spirit is the most important of all and we receive that through Christ. If we are rich in material […]

Scripture Seekers,“Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also. This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue” […]

“For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing. And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints. And this they did, not as we looked for: but gaue their owne selues, first to the Lorde, […]