In moments of terror and fear prayer is a reliever. It possess the power to have some biological effects on the doer. In fact, when one engages on prayer a state of relaxation and peace emerges. At Mid America heart institute in Kansas two prominent cardiologist were at odds of whether prayer would play a factor in healing heart patients. Dr. Harris decided to experiment on 1,000 patients with a group of prayer individuals for one year and found out that sample people who were prayed upon had a 11% fewer heart attacks. Prayer works, but it must be enacted by people themselves for their own needs as well as for others.
2 Kings 19:3
They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
God’s people were being threatened and bullied by the king of Assyria, they were on the verge of taking over Jerusalem. King Hezekiah understood that God had something good coming out of Jerusalem, but he felt weak and helpless. Like many of us, when hardship comes helplessness becomes the enemy of choice to defeat us. Hezekiah asked the prophet Isaiah to pray for them, which was great, but the moment called for he to pray; just he did not have the boldness to pray until the pressure tightened (2 Kings 19:15). The disciples went through a similar experience as Hezekiah, they were being harassed and threatened. When they prayed God caused the earth to move and fill them with boldness (Acts 4:29-31). Boldness is a trademark of love (1Jhn 4:17), it is the conqueror of fear. In God there is no fear, because God is love. Prayer builds boldness in us. Habbakkuk made a prayer in times when disaster was knocking at the door of humanity and requested for God’s mercy; it was a prayer of faith (Hab. 3:1). Prayer to the sand, stars or anything under heaven has no effect, but prayer to God avails much and it is a powerful thing to practice.