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Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted." (Psalm 25:16, NIV) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Feeling Lonely Are you feeling lonely today? Loneliness is a hollow emptiness, a feeling of isolation and disconnection, of not knowing what to do, as no one seems to care. In reading about this subject, I note that loneliness is increasing everywhere. It can be as unhealthy as smoking 15 cigarette ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "God made history with salvation, He showed the world what he could do. He remembered to love us, a bonus To his dear family, Israel, indefatigable love. The whole earth comes to attention. Look God's work of salvation!" (The Message Psalms 98:2-3). By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us God Comes Through All the Time. Devotions from the Psalms (98:2-3) Our Heavenly Father is always on the alert. He watches out for His ch ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." (Galatians 6:2 NIV) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Share the Load With more than 2,000 miles to walk, he chose carefully what to put in his backpack. World War II was over, and Earl Shaffer needed to walk it out of his system. He chose the Appalachian (or Government) Trail to do so. At the time, the trail began at Oglethorpe, Georgi ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them... When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken." (Acts 2: 4,6 NIV) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us How to understand Polish. The Witness. Part 14 When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, every believer began to speak in tongues. Thi ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you." (John 15:12-14) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Ruthless Love In January of 1978, Florida newspapers carried the story of James Michael Harper of Tampa. Harper was playing with his puppy on a train trestle over th ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: 'For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." (Romans 8:35-37 NIV) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Nothing can Separate us from our Heavenly Fath ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Jesus replied, 'A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean.'" (John 13:10 NLT) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Mind the Chickens Sometimes, chickens leave behind more than eggs and meat. My maternal grandmother-a residence of Vance for many years-had a dozen or so chickens wandering around her yard at any given moment. At night, she enclosed them in a small p ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." (Matthew 13:44, NAS) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Junk for Free My wife has been quite busy these last few days. She has found lots of items that we will never use again. In order to dispose of all this junk, she called the city Waste Managem ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you," (Matthew 5:44) By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The "Spann" of His Life Joey Spann, minister of the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, TN, thought he was going to die. Spann was one of the shooting victims when a masked man firing a gun entered the Burnette Chapel church building on Sunday morning after worship services o ...Continue Reading