Teen delivers powerful impromptu invocation during graduation commencement's unexpected emergency

Christian Crawford stepped up during an important time.

A high school graduate stepped up to the podium during the Clay-Chalkville High School graduation ceremony and delivered a powerful prayer, after one woman had a medical emergency. The prayer moved the audience so much that his impromptu invocation was cheered for at the end. Garnering nationwide attention, the now high school graduate Christian Crawford gives God all the glory.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "We don't know what's going on, but we will pray. We know that prayer is power and that God is able," said Crawford as soon as he got to the podium the second time.

He opened the ceremony through a prepared prayer, but his second unscripted one got the attention and hearts of the members of the audience in Jefferson County, Alabama. Crawford was asked by the school librarian to do a second prayer, after hearing students ask for medics as they began to receive their diplomas.

"We pray right now that whatever is going on that you would fix it. God, we pray that you would heal it. God, we pray that you would redeem it. God, we pray that you would deliver it, God, because we know that you are a God who knows how to make a way. We declare and decree in the name of Jesus that whatever is going on shall be fixed," prayed Crawford, answered by a resounding "Amen" by the cheering audience.

During his interview with Fox & Friends, the teenager admitted that he was at first hesitant to deliver another prayer, but decided to do it for God.

"I said, 'Lord, let your will be done. I opened up my mouth and God began to speak through me... The Holy Spirit began to speak and he said, through me, 'God is a fixer.'"

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