Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Do not inflict me with love for money! Turn my eyes from worthless things." Psalm 119:36, 37  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Looking for the Worthwhile His discovery on January 24, 1848, changed the lives of thousands. James W. Marshall was prospecting at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, when he discovered gold. News of his find pummeled across the country. Over the next seven years, 300,000 ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "That's how much you mean to me! That's how much I love you! I'd sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you." (Isa 43:4 The Message)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us All I Want is More of You When I left home to attend college overseas, all I could think about was how exciting it was to go to a new country. I was completely oblivious to the fact that my mother's world ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Psalm 34:8a "Taste and see that the Lord is good."   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Sip And Savour All of my life, it seems to me that I have been in a hurry for some reason or other. For example, I have always been the first person at the table to finish my meal. I never thought much about it until recently, when God opened my eyes to some new truths.I was facing surgery and needed to lose some w ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." (Matt 14:27b)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Walk or Sink. It All Depends on our Perspective. Facing Unimaginable Odds, Conclusion We were on Highway A87 on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, headed for Portree, when it happened. A terrible accident occurred ahead of us, blocking the road in both directions. The only vehicles to move were of the emergency kind ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I want you to be smart in the same way--but for what is right--using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you'll live, really live..." Luke 16:9 (MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Rain I was driving home in a gloomy rainstorm on a cold, March morning in the mountains of my home. Part of me was enjoying the rain thinking th ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears." (Psalm 34:4)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us No Smoke Signals Needed! Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 30b Last time we discovered that our Heavenly Father always answers our pleas, but not always as expected.Once we had landed in Edinburgh, British Airways had lost one of our suitcases, containing all our medication, our ba ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Psalm 37:4-5 - Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it. (NASB)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Call To Me Philippians 4:19 - You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. (MSG)Jeremiah 33:3 - Call to me and I will an ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The People of Israel, reduced to grinding poverty by Midian, cried out to GOD for help." (Judg 6:6, MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Lost Suitcase. Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 30a What happens when someone cries out to God?He answers! But not always in the way we expect Him to..."The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "As you know, everyone from the province of Asia has deserted me-even Phygelus and Hermogenes." 2 Timothy 1:15 NLT  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Shunned I knew it was coming before it ever arrived. Being shunned is never enjoyable. I know. I received my share of it growing up. Though a healthy nine pounds when I was born, I soon lost my robust physique and traded it for a skinny frame. So skinny ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The people I love, I call to account-prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!" (Rev 3:19, MSG)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Roomless in a Foreign Country. Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 29b Within the ten minutes I had to book a room before leaving for the airport in London, I succeeded in booking one for only one person. Whe ...Continue Reading