In today’s Herald dated 31.03.20, I read on page No. 4 a nice article on “The Power of Prayer” under people’s edit by Ibonio D’Souza where he describes how great is the power of prayer and some of the quotes he indicated are worthy of admiring.
Going a step further, let me supplement it with something of what I know of the power of prayer. In the Biblical book of Prophet Joshua, it is written like this: While fighting his war against his enemies, He felt the need of Sun Light which was coming to an end and if the Sun goes down with the advent of the night the darkness will surely envelope the world including the battlefield where the Prophet Joshua and his army fighting the battle against his enemies (Philistines?) and because of this darkness there was every possibility for Prophet Joshua to lose war. At that moment Joshua till that moment heavily relying on his troop led by Him to defeat his enemies, realized that depending upon himself and his troop is going to be useless and with all his mind and heart asked Heavenly God something impossible, to come to his rescue by creating a miracle of keeping the Sun intact to help him to indlict defeat on his enemies. The power of this prayer was so great, that God had no other choice but to accede to Prophet Joshua’s prayer and keep not only the Sun but also the entire Stellar system intact for 24 hours till Prophet Joshua won the battle.
This incident was finally scientifically proved as genuine during the second Moon landing expedition. One of the Astronauts was entrusted with the task of checking the rotations of the Sun round the Earth and after double checking and convinced his finding is correct he sent the message to the ground saying that he found on one day Son did not go down. Though the ground scientists were not very much convinced thinking there must have been a human error occurred while collecting the data by the top Astronaut, at that moment only it was dawned on the mind of the top Astronaut that this was exactly scripted in the Biblicsal Book of Joshua which was finally confirmed even by all. The Astronaut who did this finding as a young student was very good in Biblical studies where he read this incident. Inspite of this, he was not ready to accept the Biblical facts turning himself an atheist. However, miraculously, while going to the Moon he was an atheist but while returning he was a convert and as a mark of respect for the Bible and God, he left his job after landing on to the surface of the Earth, he left everything and turned into a gospel preacher. This is the power of prayer if we apply properly in our prayer, I am sure the power of Corona Virus will disappear like an ether. What a tiny invissible particle known as Corona Virus is shaking the whole world inflicting total fear in us who produced mighty and deadly weapons such as Atomic and Hydrogen to eradicate human beings from this planet, finally we are become impotent to face these invisible particles!! Where is our power gone now? Yes, we have our power not in mighty weapons but in our prayers of the type Prophet Joshua prayed.
A.Veronica Fernandes.