When 22 Losses Meet One Moment of Divine Intervention

What happens when grief becomes so overwhelming it feels like a physical weight? Pastor Linda Budd reveals powerful insights about spiritual healing that transcend conventional understanding of both physical and emotional pain.

Linda shares her journey as a faith healer at Rivergate Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she takes scripture literally – "lay hands on the sick and see them recover." Through years of dedicated ministry, she's witnessed remarkable healings of various diseases and conditions. But perhaps most striking is her approach to emotional wounds, particularly grief, which she identifies as a spiritual stronghold requiring specific intervention.

The centerpiece of this episode features an extraordinary testimony of a woman who had lost twenty-two loved ones in just eighteen months. Trapped in overwhelming grief, this woman experienced immediate liberation during a service when Pastor Linda commanded the "spirit of heaviness" to depart. The transformation was visible – from crushing sorrow to spontaneous laughter as divine joy replaced her burden. This testimony challenges us to reconsider our approach to persistent grief that resists conventional healing methods.

Pastor Linda offers listeners the same opportunity for freedom, declaring that the joy of the Lord can replace heaviness in your life too. Whether you're struggling with physical ailments or emotional wounds, this episode invites you to experience healing through faith. Have you been carrying grief or pain that conventional methods haven't resolved? Perhaps it's time to consider a spiritual dimension to your healing journey. Connect with Pastor Linda through Rivergate Church if her message of hope and healing resonates with your spirit.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Linda's Healing Ministry
• 0:40 Testimony of Grief Liberation
• 1:30 Freedom Through God's Joy
• 2:24 Invitation to Connect

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, I'm Linda Budd. I'm a pastor at Rivergate Church in Tulsa, oklahoma, and I take the scriptures literally. That says that we are to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. And so for several years I've gone after a healing anointing. I've prayed for people dozens of times over the years and I see so many get healed. I've seen all manner of sickness and disease healed. If you have any pain in your body, if you're infirmed, if you have any disease, if you have any sickness at all, I just reach my hand up to heaven right now, in the name of Jesus, and I call forth the new body part that you need.

Speaker 1: 0:40

Listen to this testimony. We were never meant to be taken out by grief. Some people have lost loved ones and they just can't get through it and they just carry it and carry it. And it's not that they don't want to get free, but it's like they just can't get free. I'm telling you that grief is a spirit and it needs to be delivered. We need to say I take authority over this spirit of grief and I command you to come out of my life right now.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Sunday night there was a woman, two women that walked in late to my miracle service and I heard the word grief and so I said is there someone here that you've been experiencing a lot of grief? And immediately this woman said it's me. She said I have lost 22 people in the last 18 months, oh my goodness. And I said and you're just grieving? And she said yes, and I said and you're just grieving? And she said yes, and I said walk up here, I take authority over that spirit of grief and I command it to get off of you. I command that heaviness to get off of you. See, I think grief comes under a spirit of heaviness and heaviness is a stronghold. And so I said I command the heaviness, the stronghold to come off of you now, in the name of Jesus, and go where Jesus would send you.

Speaker 1: 2:10

And the woman just went out in the power of God and she was just totally overcome by the Lord. And then she began laughing. And I'm telling you, there was a release, there was a release. And so I'm saying to you, if you are carrying heaviness, if you're carrying grief from the loss of someone, whether it's through divorce or death, I say to you now, in the name of Jesus, that spirit of heaviness is coming off of you and it's going where Jesus sends it.

Speaker 1: 2:40

And I declare to you that you are getting set free and that the joy of the Lord is coming upon you now, and the Bible says that the joy of the Lord is your strength. Well, we give praise for that in Jesus' name. Aren't these just great testimonies of the goodness of God and the healing power of Jesus Christ? If you are interested in having me come and speak at a motivational event, your church or a conference of some sort, I am more than happy to consider that invitation. Please contact my church's office, rivergate Church, Tulsa, 918-492-5511, and we'll see if we can set something up. God bless you.