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

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him." (Luke 10:34)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us My Least Favorite Parable A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the Good Samaritan, in which a man was beaten, robbed and left for dead. She described the situation in vivid detail so ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." (Rom 8:18)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Small Sufferings for Greater Glory. Facing Unimaginable Odds, Part 29a We all face our challenges, sometimes more than others.We were finally able to receive plane tickets (See Heathrow's Hunger Games), not to our planned destination, but to Edin ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: I Peter 3:10a "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil.... "  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Way of Love At the supermarket, I wheeled my three articles, precariously balanced on the front bar of my two-wheel, two-back-skids walker, into the last check-out aisle signed LIMIT 12 ARTICLES.The lady in front of me had just put a few articles from her cart -- showin ...Continue Reading