It’s all in the power of prayer.

That’s the statement of 21-year-old Shaquille Hairston after an attempted robbery turned into something remarkable.

Hairston had just finished his shift at a Cleveland hotel when he stepped off a bus at 3 a.m. near the border of Cleveland and Euclid.  A man was waiting in the dark for him just past the bus stop.

“He stopped me. He said ‘Aye bruh’ and I turned around and he pulled out a gun and said ‘gimme everything you got,” Hairston told Fox 8 Cleveland he told the robber.  “I told him, I was like, I don’t have anything. I really don’t have anything and he took the gun; he swung and he hit me in my head really hard and I had a bump right here on my head.”

Hairston said he began to pray out loud as he handed over his wallet and phone.  He believed that if this was his last moment on Earth, he wanted to go out praising God and wake up with Him in heaven.

Then he prayed for the robber.  And the robber’s family.

Then he invited the robber to church.

The robber, shaken by Hairston’s faith, apologized for robbing him and gave back the wallet and cell phone.

“He said ‘man, you’re like really blessed’ and I said ‘no, you’re blessed’ and I said ‘I’ll be praying for you and your family; and then he was like ‘ok’ and he shook my hand and he went about his way,” Hairston said.

Hairston is praying the robber will come to church.