Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Luke 2:7 "And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Anticipation My grade six students always exchanged a chocolate bar (so that the cost of the gift could be well controlled), but they could wrap their "gift" however they chose. Some would come in ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.'" (Matt 13:33)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us My Bread is Not Rising! Help! Do we Truly Believe? Part 4 Many, many years ago, so long in fact that it seems like eons, I was asked, along with several other church members, to go up to the altar to pray for those who we ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "She gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them." (Luke 2:7)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Christmas Memory "Christmas is no fun when you're poor," I thought to myself as I slowly climbed the steps to my cold, damp apartment. I was a young, struggling, substitute teacher whose calls int ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Destroyed to Nothingness. Alive series, 26 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.& ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple."  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Vision Of Jesus There was a time when I turned my back on God. I denied His existence. He took my best friend "my father" even though I prayed that He'd heal and keep him on this earth. I was only nine then ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matt 5:17)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Fulfilled to Heart's Content. Majestic Mountain View, part 13 Have you ever had a dream that you wished would come true? I sure have had many. One of my dearest dreams was when I was in my twenties. I prayed that God would lead me to a wi ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." (2Cor 4:16)   By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Night that Changed my Life Finally at the grand old age of 52 I've started reading my Bible whenever I feel overwhelmed, which is pretty much most of the time. No, I'm not a new Christian. In fact up to this point I would have called ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs." (1Pet 3:1b, MSG) (The same is true about husbands towards their wife.)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Attentive to what Matters. Marriage Bliss, 8 "The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband." (1Cor 7:3, NIV2)How often don't we hear husbands or wives complain: "He (or she) d ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "So Peter opened his mouth and said: 'Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.'" Acts 10:34-35  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Home Again Today I'd like to tell you about a country church, which was having an old-fashioned mission festival.It was -- in the life of the congregation -- a big deal. For a yea ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1Cor 15:57)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us It's All About Victory! Alive series, 25 "This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God." (1John 5:4b-5, NIV2)Napoleon was quite a strategist. He had alread ...Continue Reading