About Prakash Daniel

In India, where arranged marriages are common, Prakash’s Hindu mother had no idea that her intended husband was Catholic – it was a surprise to her on her wedding day. Prakash’s father went to a Catholic school as a young man and “lived without any knowledge or understanding of salvation,” Prakash reports. As so many others who lived without Christ, Prakash’s father was arrogant and addicted to alcohol and cigarettes says Prakash. Their marriage was stormy from the beginning. Prakash Daniel was born to this Hindu mother and Catholic father in India in 1978. Even though Prakash’s father wasn’t following Christ, he chose to give Prakash a biblical name, Daniel. Due to a number of family problems, Prakash’s family had to escape from their village in the middle of the night to the city of Chennai, formally called Madras. “When we lived in Chennai, we had some very hard times and it seemed like everything was always going wrong. We even lost our house which we built new,” due to a court ruling that two families owned the same home at the same time, so it was intentionally burned down.“But then, amazingly, during that difficult time in 1980, my father got saved, baptized and filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.” A group of missionaries had come to their village to share the love of Jesus Christ. If it had taken the loss in their previous village and the move to Chennai, it was well worth it.
“From then on our lives turned around and things were going more smoothly. The group’s visit to Chennai changed our entire family forever.” Soon Prakash’s mother accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. Prakash’s father was hungry for more of the Lord and eager that other souls would be saved. He prayed that other families would be put back together like his. In pursuit of his calling, he studied and served as a pastor in several villages in parts of Tamil Nadu, South India. Prakash was sent to a Methodist school, where he found the Lord. “I was saved at the age of nine when the Methodist school I attended took me to a children’s camp for 3 days. I confessed my sins and asked Jesus to come into my heart at the end of watching the film ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’”

Evangelizing in Asia with souls accepting Christ

“At the age of thirteen The Lord God Almighty anointed me with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and from that moment the Lord started using me for His kingdom. I am a living witness for Jesus Christ for the rest of my days.” Prakash went on to graduate with a Master in Arts in Biblical Studies from the Renowned Seminary in India, then went further to receive his Doctorate in Divinity as a Honors student at the Academy of Global Peace in India as well. Still later, Prakash began to notice that people said they were healed as he was ministering in crusades, beginning in North India. Many were healed from sicknesses and diseases and reported new jobs and other answers to prayer.

Prakash Daniel ministering in Sri Lanka

This continued as he began to travel in crusades and conferences with attendance growing to the thousands in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, UAE (Dubai), Kuwait, Africa, and still many more. As Prakash looks back, he sees God’s providential hand in all of this, preparing him for a worldwide ministry since his father gave him a biblical name, he was sent to a Methodist school in India, and he learned English from an early age. Also, the city where he grew up, Chennai, is the city where Thomas, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, came to India as a missionary in 52 A.D. to evangelize and plant churches and where he was martyred. Historical tradition holds that the Apostle Thomas was struck with a lance to his back as he was praying at the top of what is now called “Thomas Mount”. The Apostle Thomas is buried in the town nearby and left a legacy that reached the world.

A view of Chennai, India from Thomas Mount where the Apostle Thomas was martyred

Prakash humbly asked the Lord to give him “one person a day to minister to” which he does no matter what…and now he ministers to thousands.

Prakash met his late wife Charity on his first trip to the United States in 2014 and was touched by her heart for missionary work. She was influenced at the age of 11 by the story of an Irish Missionary Amy Carmichael who went to India. Prakash and his late wife Charity were married in Texas, USA on February 1, 2016. and then moved to India where they served the Lord together in India, Malaysia and Singapore. They also visited Amy Carmichael’s Mission. One of the dream place of Prakash’s late wife Charity’s, they later felt called to move to the United States. Soon after celebrating their second Anniversary on February 1, 2018 and Charity’s 35th Birthday, tragedy struck on February 7, 2018. They were heading back home after preaching in a Church in Florida, USA, and Charity died in a terrible car wreck. Prakash took his wife’s legacy as a challenge and wanted to see her heart’s desire for missionary work to continue to be fulfilled. Charity planted as a seed that will continue to produce much fruit. Touching the world for good cause. Prakash was encouraged and received a prophetic word in the time of hard time after losing his wife, a new call on his life from Isaiah 61:1,2.

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn.

Prakash now live in Florida, USA and preaching the gospel as an ordained Minister, using the gifts as a Healing Prophetic Evangelist, traveling across North America and to the ends of the earth. Prakash ministered in the United States at Glory of Zion International in Corinth, Texas, invited by Dr. Chuck Pierce, also commissioned by the leaders of Global Spheres Inc., as an Apostle Evangelist, Prakash also an ordained minister of the gospel by CMM Missions. Prakash travels all across North America around the world ministering at conferences, school of ministry , leadership seminars , crusades etc. When a missionary reaches only one, that one can reach thousands, even whole nations. From Thomas the disciple to a missionary group, to a pastor in South India, to a Methodist Church children’s camp, to a national ministry, to a worldwide evangelism ministry — they all have a part in saving so many souls. We praise God for those who dedicate their lives, who leave the comfort of their home countries, moving thousands of miles across the seas in sacrifice of service to the Lord. To God be the glory and may we support and pray for those who do this in service to the Lord.