everyone continues to Pray

Damar Hamlin, who plays safety for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL, was released from a Buffalo hospital and has returned home to continue his remarkable recovery after his terrifying collapse during a Monday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals. It started a worldwide prayer by people who were not even football fans and the trend is still going strong with no signs of quitting.

It's not only the fact that Damar survived that traumatic moment and was brought back to life, but it's also about Damar's amazing recovery since the hit, a miracle. A lot of people say it's because of millions of people around the world had turned to God and prayed for God to work a miracle and help Damar and it has continued to this day.

It was an absolutely awful moment when Damar got up only to collapse onto the field, and it's no doubt that it caused faith to surge to the front in prayer, to see Damar's teammates and many others continuing to pray. That's what the Buffalo Bills Chaplain said.

The prayer moment happened when Damar, who is 24 years old, suffered cardiac arrest after what looked like a routine tackle at the Bill's January 2 game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The game was halted and had been canceled, as the players from both sides were too emotional to continue the game.

On Wednesday, January 11, Damar had been released from the hospital in Buffalo, where he spent a couple of days to have tests run on him, after being released from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Right after Damar collapsed on the field, prayer became the main focus for the players, as both Buffalo and Cincinnati players took a knee in prayer together and Dan Orlovsky, the ESPN analyst, gave pause on the air to pray aloud for Damar Hamlin.

After Damar regained consciousness, he started to communicate with everyone from his hospital bed. He said, "God was using his ordeal to speak to the world."

That is true; everyone from lawmakers to sports journalists have all pointed to the power of prayer. Just like Paul reminded us to, "pray without ceasing." He said in Thessalonians 5:16-18, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

The Buffalo Bills' team chaplain, Len Vanden Bos, agreed that many of the Bills' players immediately knelt and went into prayer for Damar. He said that the incident had opened up some of the players to grasp the power of faith and prayer. He said, "When Damar went down, a lot of us began to pray right away. We have a strong core of players and coaches who are followers of Jesus, so that was our immediate reaction. Some guys were praying, some were crying. A lot of us were in disbelief. We prayed on the field; we prayed in the locker room; we prayed when we got to the hospital."