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Internet SHUTS DOWN When Hand Appears on Christian's Photo... · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  OK, I want you guys to look at this and then wait to hear the
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  remarkable story behind it. So there's this mum in Kentucky
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  called Amanda Foster. She's 33 and she's pregnant with
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  her fourth child, and she's had a pretty rough ride when it
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  comes to pregnancies. Her journey actually started
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  when she was 17. That's when she lost her first
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  baby boy to something called Potter syndrome, which basically
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  means that the kidneys don't develop properly and it usually
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  ends in tragedy. And sadly for Amanda, it did.
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  As you can imagine, Amanda was devastated.
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  I mean, she actually said at that time, if God, you're going
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  to take my son, well, you're going to have to take me too.
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  But the Lord didn't. And what followed were years of
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  pain, resentment and anger towards God.
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  Let me just stop there because I know that many of you who are
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  listening right now, you can actually relate to Amanda's
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  feelings. But hey, now, Fast forward a
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  bit. Amanda does go on to have two
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  beautiful, healthy daughters, but she admits that she was
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  still filled with anger towards God.
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  But then something shifted. In September 2021, she gave her
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  life to Jesus. Completely broken, totally
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  exhausted, she said, all right God, I'm done fighting.
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  But you won't believe this next part by November.
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  She then finds out that she's pregnant again with a healthy
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  little boy. And this little boy is nearly
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  three years old. Now here's where things get
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  really interesting. Amanda's pregnant again.
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  And early on in this pregnancy, doctors discovered a heart
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  condition in the baby, something wrong with the wall in his heart
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  near the aorta. And it's serious.
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  It's really serious. But Amanda is now walking in
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  faith, so she starts to pray. Before every single appointment,
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  she prayed to God. Lord, please keep your hand on
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  my baby. And then something unbelievable
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  happened on the 32 week ultrasound.
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  This came up in the imaging. So here she is.
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  She's lying there. She's looking at the screen and
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  what shows up, a huge hand cradling her baby's head.
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  I mean, it literally looks like the hand was just gently resting
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  there as if to say, I'm here. Her daughter Bailey was there,
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  too, and she was the one who spotted it first.
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  She goes, mom, mom, look, there's a hand on his head.
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  The image went absolutely viral online, and people called it
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  amazing. Some people said, what more
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  proof do you need that there is a God, that there is a sign from
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  God here before all of our eyes. But not everyone believed it.
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  Some folks were like, it's just probably the baby's own hand
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  distorted by the ultrasound, which fine, ultrasounds can
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  sometimes look a little bit wobbly when they come out.
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  But Amanda, what about her? She knows what she prayed, and
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  she knows what she saw. She and her husband Kyle,
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  believe it was the hand of God because they prayed so, so much,
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  they say. And then after that, get this,
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  the heart defect disappeared. It went and they truly do
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  believe this was God in that moment, protecting their son and
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  bringing about things, making it all new again.
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  Now listen to me, whether you believe it was a divine hand or
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  whether you believe it was just the scan glitching, Amanda's
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  story is powerful. Why?
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  Because she went from losing a child, cursing God, to finding
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  peace, joy, and maybe even a miracle.
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  So what do you think? I'm super interested to know
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  what my subscribers think. Do you think it was just a
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  coincidence? Do you think it was a glitch?
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  Or do you think it was a miraculous reminder that when we
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  ask, when we trust, sometimes the Lord God really does place
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  His hand right where it's needed most.
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  One thing is for sure, we can't blame it on AI because this
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  happened in early 2022 before open AI was accessible.
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  And personally, when I look at this, it reminds reminds me of
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  the Potter and the clay like a sculptor at work on his subject.
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  But over to you. Have you ever heard this Bible
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  verse before? Psalm 139, verse 13 says, for
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  you created my inmost being. You knit me together in my
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  mother's womb. Let me be transparent now, as
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  someone who has also experienced a similar sadness to Amanda
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  earlier this year, I know that God can do pretty incredible
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  things during these moments of life, things that we would not
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  believe if we hadn't been through the trial.
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  However, whatever you do believe was on that scan that day, this
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  story touches a part of us that is right inside our very inner
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  being. Because come on now, let's be
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  honest with one another. We all long to be held, don't
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  we? Not just physically, but
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  spiritually. We want to know that we're safe.
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  We want to know that someone bigger than us sees all that
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  we're going through and won't let us go.
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  And whether it's in the middle of grief like Amanda losing her
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  first son, or in a moment of joy, like seeing that hand in
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  the ultrasound, deep down we all want to know the same thing.
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  We all want to know that we are being held by God.
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  Well, the good news is this. Every single one of us can be.
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  The Bible says in Psalm 73, you hold my hand, you guide me with
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  your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
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  But there is a problem. All of us have pushed that hand
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  away. We've broken God's law, not just
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  in big ways, but in the small everyday stuff that we do.
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  Selfishness, pride, anger, judgement.
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  We're all living on our own life terms at times.
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  We've all made ourselves as our own gods, and we've all ignored
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  the One who made us. Do you know what the Bible calls
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  that? It calls it sin.
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  And sin separates us from the face of God.
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  And because God is just, he can't just shrug it off.
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  No, His justice demands a response, but His response is
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  actually in love. In love He made a way.
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  He made a way that was paved with his own Son.
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  His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ entered into this world and took
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  on a body and he walked on this earth just like you and me were
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  walking on this earth. We're alive.
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  God took on a skin and came and lived amongst us and He lived a
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  perfect life, a righteous life, no sin whatsoever.
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  And yet this righteous Son of God became the sacrifice on on a
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  cross for my sin, on an old wooden rugged cross.
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  The Son of God was nailed there between two thieves so that you
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  and I can be forgiven. Our sin was transferred onto
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  him. Our rottenness, all our
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  wrongdoing was laid on him. And the very hand of God that
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  we've been talking about, the very hand of God laid all of his
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  wrath, poured out all of his anger.
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  It was heavy on the Son of God, not because Jesus had done
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  anything wrong, but because you and I have done many, many bad
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  things. Many sins and the sins of the
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  world were poured out on Jesus, and God punished Christ his Son
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  on the cross in our place, so that our sins can be washed away
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  and we can get a new beginning and we can hold on to the hand
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  of God. And then what happened next?
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  Jesus died and he was put in a tomb and they put a massive big
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  stone, a big, huge stone. It was put in front of the tomb
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  to keep him in there, because there was a rumour that went
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  around that the disciples would sneak in and take the body away.
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  So they put a big stone there to make sure that would be
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  impossible, that no one could do this.
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  But then what happened again? The power, the hand of God
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  rolled away that stone, and there the Lord Jesus Christ came
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  out triumphant because not even the hand of death could hold
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  Jesus down, because the hand of God is much more powerful.
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  And he conquered the grave. And that's why, my friend,
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  whoever you are, you'd be very wise to trust in Jesus Christ
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  because His hand is so, so strong.
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  He can beat your grave and wrestle the hand of death that
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  will grip every single one of us one day.
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  A grip that is so strong that not even the strongest man on
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  earth could fight that grip. It'll all get but Jesus Christ's
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  grip. Jesus Christ's hand is way
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  stronger and He will beat your grave if you put your trust in
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  Him and ask Him to be your Lord and Saviour, to wash away all of
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  your sins and to give you a new start, a new beginning.
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  If you are one of his children, remember this.
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  You're held forever, not because you've earned it, but because
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  He's paid for it. So if you're tired, if you're
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  hurting, or if you're just ready to come home, His hand is there
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  reaching out to you. But the question will you take
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  it guys? If you haven't yet heard about
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  our sad start to 2025 only if you want to, you can click here
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  and listen to our story. And I do want to say this thank
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  you to every single one of you who has supported our ministry
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  through our website offthecurb.org.
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  And I also want to thank every single one of you who is a
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  member of this channel because honestly, without your support,
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  practically, I could not make these videos anymore.
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  And I just need to draw awareness to that that I really
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  do appreciate you guys and it does help.
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  So please do keep praying for this ministry.
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  God bless you all. We've got a great joy ahead of
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  us. We've got the Lord Jesus Christ
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  who has a strong wrong hand, and let us all remember that this
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  very day. Thank you for watching.