. >> reporter: pastor paul sentoro and his wife, jennifer, were at the hospital with tony's family. stor paul said he had recently been teaching on the power of prayer. and the couple had also began talking to tony's 17-year-old son, lawrence, about the strength of god. >> i remember watching him with these elbows on his desk, and he had his head down and he was praying. and then the word came in and the doctors came in, and the place erupted with such grief. i'll never forget the sounds of the wailing, the screaming, the crying. and lawrence jumped up and he hit the wall, just really hard. i saw lawrence, as he was turned to the wall. he was shaking his head. and all of a sudden he straightened up, and it was as if he just had this second wind. >> reporter: refusing to accept his father's death, lawrence did something extraordinary. >> something just clicked. and i just came up, and i said, dad, you're not going to die today. >> i spoke against the spirit of death in my prayer, and i asked the lord to give him life and to call him back. and when i did that, lawrence runs out into th