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'There Is Power in Prayer': Couple That Survived 9/11 Overcomes 2 COVID-19 Hospitalizations

'There Is Power in Prayer': Couple That Survived 9/11 Overcomes 2 COVID-19 Hospitalizations Read Transcript


- Imagine surviving 9/11,

then facing a severe attack of COVID-19.

That happened to a couple weintroduced you to last year.

Paul Strand brings us the latest chapter

of their amazing story.

- And shockwaves from the planeblasting into that building

actually blew us back into our apartment.

- [Paul] Christina and Brian Stanton

lived so closed to the WorldTrade Center's South Tower

that the 9/11 attackcompletely upended their lives.

- Everybody's running around screeching

and bumping into each otherand catapulting over things,

and I just remember lookingat Brian and saying,

"Are we going to die?"

- [Paul] The Stantonssuffered health problems

from the toxic dust for years,

and their troubles broughtthem closer to God.

- Our whole lives arechanged because of 9/11.

It certainly deepened ourrelationship with Christ.

- [Paul] Now they've spent the last month

fighting the coronavirusafter both tested positive.

- It was definitely a battle, and it was,

you are very cognizant that you were

in a battle for your life.

- [Paul] Christina almost died

and had to be hospitalized twice.

- Because the virus became overwhelming

and it was something Icouldn't manage at home.

I didn't have to behooked up to a ventilator,

and that was a big blessing.

- Still, a doctor gave hera frightening prognosis.

- Can you be honest with me and tell me

what are my odds of surviving this?

And he did actually say, "50/50,"

which was a shocking thing to hear.

- She realized it would take more

than medical help to save her,

and put out a worldwiderequest for prayer.

- When you have a temperatureof over a hundred degrees,

it's really hard to pray oreven string a sentence together,

and I knew that therewere people praying for me

when I couldn't pray formyself, so prayer is everything.

And I invoked the name of Jesus Christ

quite a bit during this past month.

And there is power in that name

and there is power in prayer.

- [Paul] Still in pain,Christina's humor remains intact,

and she's rejoicing that neither 9/11

nor COVID-19 could take them.

- It's another angle of Jesus being there

when a near-death experiencewas on my front yet again.

I tell people, "New Yorkkeeps trying to kill me."

- [Paul] Paul Strand, CBN News.

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