Jean Ann Williams | Author

“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 […]

“The signes of an Apostle were wrought [worked] among you with all patience, with signes, and wonders, and great workes” (2 Corinthians 12:12 1587 Geneva Version).  Father, the Apostles were instrumental in teaching Your Word after Christ rose from the dead. Through His name we are joyful! Hallelujah~

“I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing” (2 Corinthians 12:11 1587 Geneva Version). Father, even though Paul was inspired by You to write Your Words for […]

“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 […]

“In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my [Paul] own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren: In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in […]

“Of the Jews five times did I [Paul] receive forty stripes [whippings] save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I suffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea” (2 Corinthians 11:24, 25 1587 Geneva Version). Father, when You called on Paul as […]

“I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as […]

“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 […]