Was the recent hurricane bearing down on the Hawaiian Islands turned to circle away before making direct landfall by divine intervention in response to human prayer requests?

As you saw intuitively, this is very much the case and is an outstanding example of the power humans hold, but do not often realize. If more would have participated, there would have been an even more dramatic lessening. The take-home message here is, people need to pray early and often for things of great importance. Their prayers will be heard and acted on in proportion to the requests and the component strengths and weaknesses of the requesters.