OK, I want you guys to look at this and then wait to hear the
remarkable story behind it. So there's this mum in Kentucky
called Amanda Foster. She's 33 and she's pregnant with
her fourth child, and she's had a pretty rough ride when it
comes to pregnancies. Her journey actually started
when she was 17. That's when she lost her first
baby boy to something called Potter syndrome, which basically
means that the kidneys don't develop properly and it usually
ends in tragedy. And sadly for Amanda, it did.
As you can imagine, Amanda was devastated.
I mean, she actually said at that time, if God, you're going
to take my son, well, you're going to have to take me too.
But the Lord didn't. And what followed were years of
pain, resentment and anger towards God.
Let me just stop there because I know that many of you who are
listening right now, you can actually relate to Amanda's
feelings. But hey, now, Fast forward a
bit. Amanda does go on to have two
beautiful, healthy daughters, but she admits that she was
still filled with anger towards God.
But then something shifted. In September 2021, she gave her
life to Jesus. Completely broken, totally
exhausted, she said, all right God, I'm done fighting.
But you won't believe this next part by November.
She then finds out that she's pregnant again with a healthy
little boy. And this little boy is nearly
three years old. Now here's where things get
really interesting. Amanda's pregnant again.
And early on in this pregnancy, doctors discovered a heart
condition in the baby, something wrong with the wall in his heart
near the aorta. And it's serious.
It's really serious. But Amanda is now walking in
faith, so she starts to pray. Before every single appointment,
she prayed to God. Lord, please keep your hand on
my baby. And then something unbelievable
happened on the 32 week ultrasound.
This came up in the imaging. So here she is.
She's lying there. She's looking at the screen and
what shows up, a huge hand cradling her baby's head.
I mean, it literally looks like the hand was just gently resting
there as if to say, I'm here. Her daughter Bailey was there,
too, and she was the one who spotted it first.
She goes, mom, mom, look, there's a hand on his head.
The image went absolutely viral online, and people called it
amazing. Some people said, what more
proof do you need that there is a God, that there is a sign from
God here before all of our eyes. But not everyone believed it.
Some folks were like, it's just probably the baby's own hand
distorted by the ultrasound, which fine, ultrasounds can
sometimes look a little bit wobbly when they come out.
But Amanda, what about her? She knows what she prayed, and
she knows what she saw. She and her husband Kyle,
believe it was the hand of God because they prayed so, so much,
they say. And then after that, get this,
the heart defect disappeared. It went and they truly do
believe this was God in that moment, protecting their son and
bringing about things, making it all new again.
Now listen to me, whether you believe it was a divine hand or
whether you believe it was just the scan glitching, Amanda's
story is powerful. Why?
Because she went from losing a child, cursing God, to finding
peace, joy, and maybe even a miracle.
So what do you think? I'm super interested to know
what my subscribers think. Do you think it was just a
coincidence? Do you think it was a glitch?
Or do you think it was a miraculous reminder that when we
ask, when we trust, sometimes the Lord God really does place
His hand right where it's needed most.
One thing is for sure, we can't blame it on AI because this
happened in early 2022 before open AI was accessible.
And personally, when I look at this, it reminds reminds me of
the Potter and the clay like a sculptor at work on his subject.
But over to you. Have you ever heard this Bible
verse before? Psalm 139, verse 13 says, for
you created my inmost being. You knit me together in my
mother's womb. Let me be transparent now, as
someone who has also experienced a similar sadness to Amanda
earlier this year, I know that God can do pretty incredible
things during these moments of life, things that we would not
believe if we hadn't been through the trial.
However, whatever you do believe was on that scan that day, this
story touches a part of us that is right inside our very inner
being. Because come on now, let's be
honest with one another. We all long to be held, don't
we? Not just physically, but
spiritually. We want to know that we're safe.
We want to know that someone bigger than us sees all that
we're going through and won't let us go.
And whether it's in the middle of grief like Amanda losing her
first son, or in a moment of joy, like seeing that hand in
the ultrasound, deep down we all want to know the same thing.
We all want to know that we are being held by God.
Well, the good news is this. Every single one of us can be.
The Bible says in Psalm 73, you hold my hand, you guide me with
your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
But there is a problem. All of us have pushed that hand
away. We've broken God's law, not just
in big ways, but in the small everyday stuff that we do.
Selfishness, pride, anger, judgement.
We're all living on our own life terms at times.
We've all made ourselves as our own gods, and we've all ignored
the One who made us. Do you know what the Bible calls
that? It calls it sin.
And sin separates us from the face of God.
And because God is just, he can't just shrug it off.
No, His justice demands a response, but His response is
actually in love. In love He made a way.
He made a way that was paved with his own Son.
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ entered into this world and took
on a body and he walked on this earth just like you and me were
walking on this earth. We're alive.
God took on a skin and came and lived amongst us and He lived a
perfect life, a righteous life, no sin whatsoever.
And yet this righteous Son of God became the sacrifice on on a
cross for my sin, on an old wooden rugged cross.
The Son of God was nailed there between two thieves so that you
and I can be forgiven. Our sin was transferred onto
him. Our rottenness, all our
wrongdoing was laid on him. And the very hand of God that
we've been talking about, the very hand of God laid all of his
wrath, poured out all of his anger.
It was heavy on the Son of God, not because Jesus had done
anything wrong, but because you and I have done many, many bad
things. Many sins and the sins of the
world were poured out on Jesus, and God punished Christ his Son
on the cross in our place, so that our sins can be washed away
and we can get a new beginning and we can hold on to the hand
of God. And then what happened next?
Jesus died and he was put in a tomb and they put a massive big
stone, a big, huge stone. It was put in front of the tomb
to keep him in there, because there was a rumour that went
around that the disciples would sneak in and take the body away.
So they put a big stone there to make sure that would be
impossible, that no one could do this.
But then what happened again? The power, the hand of God
rolled away that stone, and there the Lord Jesus Christ came
out triumphant because not even the hand of death could hold
Jesus down, because the hand of God is much more powerful.
And he conquered the grave. And that's why, my friend,
whoever you are, you'd be very wise to trust in Jesus Christ
because His hand is so, so strong.
He can beat your grave and wrestle the hand of death that
will grip every single one of us one day.
A grip that is so strong that not even the strongest man on
earth could fight that grip. It'll all get but Jesus Christ's
grip. Jesus Christ's hand is way
stronger and He will beat your grave if you put your trust in
Him and ask Him to be your Lord and Saviour, to wash away all of
your sins and to give you a new start, a new beginning.
If you are one of his children, remember this.
You're held forever, not because you've earned it, but because
He's paid for it. So if you're tired, if you're
hurting, or if you're just ready to come home, His hand is there
reaching out to you. But the question will you take
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God bless you all. We've got a great joy ahead of
us. We've got the Lord Jesus Christ
who has a strong wrong hand, and let us all remember that this
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