Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Romans 12:21 - Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Peace Begins Inside Us Just a few months after my arrival at my first posting on a native reservation out on the prairies of Canada in 1987, I was informed that I was to lead the three nights' wake service of a young man who was killed in a gang fight. Then on the third night, while the family and I were ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete." (John 16:24b)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Why is the Floor so Wet? Jesus' Deepest Desires, Part 8 "And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it." (John 14:13-14 NIV)One of Jesus' deepest desires is that we develop a relatio ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Colossians 3:23 - And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. (NKJV)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Divine Guidance At the end of August, we were visiting family at a lake house they had rented in Connecticut, USA, when Hurricane Irene struck. We "evacuated" to their home in New York State, and watched the television in horror at the flooding, power outages, and devastatio ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "The LORD is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid?" (Ps 27:1)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Who Turned off the Lights? Devotions from the Psalms (27:1) The sun was just setting when it happened: The electricity suddenly gave up life, leaving us, as well as everyone in our neighborhood, in the dark. Literally. One moment we ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 10:3-4 - All ate the same spiritual bread and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Moving To The Rock Luke 15:20 - So he got up and started back to his father. He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms a ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me . . ." (John 11:41-42)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us When Norsemen Became Peaceful Does God Always Hear my Prayers?How many times have you heard, or perhaps even thought the following question: Does God always hear my prayers?This is a question of faith. We either believe He listens to us and wait with anticipation to ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Hebrews 12:11 "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it."  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us The Mess We have horses and goats, and horses and goats are good at a lot of things. But one of the things they're best at is making a lot of slippery, stinky mess in the corral. Morning, n ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." (Rom 1:16)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Does it Make a Difference? Radical Grace from the Book of Romans (1:9-16) "God, whom I serve with my whole heart . . ." (Rom 1:9 NIV) ". . . that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith." (Rom 1:12 NIV)" ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: Luke 9:62 "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God"  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us Plow Boy I once dreamed of being a plow boy -- a farmer that is.One of my grandfathers was a farmer and the other had been. I suppose the dirt, the sweat, the smell of diesel fuel, crops reaching for the morning sun and releasing the night's dew, and the joy of a ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Illustrator Today's Bible Verse: "Then neither do I condemn you ... Go now and leave your life of sin." (John 8:11)  By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe More Illustrations Contact us A Miracle in Time. Forgiven, Part 2 It was World War I, and the entire world was in turmoil. The Germans had invaded Belgium, and were close to conquering it completely. There was just one small area that continued to resist the invaders: Diksmijde. And this one tiny area would contin ...Continue Reading