Jean Ann Williams | Author

“For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a servant, and one by a free woman. But he which was of the servant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promise” (Galatians 4:22, 23 1587 Geneva Version). Father God, Abraham’s impatience shows perfectly how […]

“And I would I were with you nowe, that I might change my voyce: for I am in doubt of you. Example of Hagar and SarahTell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe” (Galatians 4:20, 21 1587 Geneva Version)?  Father, please guide us and give us Your strength […]

They [those who do not believe in Christ] are ielous [jealous] ouer you amisse: yea, they woulde exclude you, that ye shoulde altogether loue them. But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I [Paul] am present with you, My litle children, of whome I […]

“Am I [Paul] therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth” (Galatians 4:16 1587 Geneva Version)? Father, the truth of You cuts like a sword for people who do not want to accept You as Lord God and Christ as our Savior. As Paul, please guide us in Your strength, truth, and courage. […]

“Ye obserue [observe] dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres [years]. I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you [my] labour in vaine. Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all” (Galatians 4: 10-12 1587 Geneva Version).  Father, […]

“That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles [anyone not a Judaen/Jew] through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes [promise] of the Spirite through faith” (Galations 3:14 1587 Geneva Version). Father, only You can promise anything. We are to let our yes be yes and our no be no. Thank You […]

“This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe [Old Testament], or by the hearing of faith preached [Christ’s teachings]? Are ye so foolish, that after ye haue begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the flesh” (Galations 3:2, 3 1587 Geneva Version)? […]

“For if I build againe [his devotion to the Jewish laws] the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser. For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue [live] vnto God” (Galations 2:18, 19 1587 Geneva Version). Father, we must never look back! Please help us […]

“We which are Iewes [Jews] by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, & not by […]

“And the other Iewes [Judaens] played the hypocrites likewise with him [Peter], in so much that Barnabas was led away with them by that their hypocrisie. But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, ‘If thou being a Iewe […]