Wrestling Angels & Turning Water to Wine: Your Time is Now

Pastor Linda Budd takes us on a faith-building journey exploring the power of persistence in receiving divine breakthrough. Drawing from her experience as a pastor at Rivergate Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she shares how taking Scripture literally has fueled her healing ministry and yielded remarkable results across various diseases and infirmities.

Through compelling biblical examples, Pastor Linda illustrates how persistence can accelerate your miracle. Like the woman with the issue of blood who refused to let Jesus pass by without healing her, we too must grab hold of our faith with determination. She draws parallels to Jacob wrestling with the angel all night, declaring "I'm not letting you go until you bless me," and reminds us of how Mary's persistence at the wedding in Cana prompted Jesus to perform His first miracle despite His initial reluctance.

The unmistakable message resonates throughout: "The time is now." Pastor Linda challenges listeners to stop waiting passively for their breakthrough in healing, finances, relationships, or any area of need. Instead, she encourages speaking life, using positive words, and approaching God with unwavering faith. Her passionate delivery inspires believers to take their authority in Christ and pursue their miracle with the confidence that God is for them, not against them. If you've been praying and fasting without seeing results, this message will rekindle your determination to persist until breakthrough manifests. Ready to experience the power of persistent faith in your life? Take hold of your miracle today.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Healing Ministry
• 0:40 Testimonies and Biblical Examples
• 1:14 Wrestle in Prayer
• 2:34 Closing Invitation

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. I want to tell you that the time is now. It is the now time to grab hold of Jesus for your healing, for your deliverance, for your financial breakthrough, for whatever it is that you need. Just like a woman with the issue of blood, she would not let Jesus pass by her. She grabbed a hold, she touched the edge of his garment. He said who touched me? And when he looked around, the crowds were pressing him and the disciples said Lord, everybody's touching you. No, I felt power go out from me and then he saw the woman and she would not let him pass her by without healing her. And I'm telling you, it's time for you to rise up and to say Jesus, you are not going to let me, you are not going to pass me by without touching me, you're not going to pass me by without restoring me. And I would say, right now, I'm not waiting a day longer. And just like the man who was wrestling with the angel and he wrestled with that angel all night and he said I'm not letting you go until you bless me he wrestled him and he wrestled him. I'm telling you, folks, it's time to wrestle in prayer, time to speak life. It's time to change the words of your mouth into positive words. The words of your mouth bring life, they bring wholeness, in the name of Jesus. And it's time to speak life. It's time to say to the Lord I'm not letting go of you, you will bless me. You will bless me.

Speaker 1: 2:18

And just like Jesus' mother, when the wine ran out at the wedding feast, she came to him and she said do something about this. And he turned to her and he said woman, it is not my time yet. Well, she was his mother. She wouldn't let him get away with it, and so he had to turn that water into wine, and that was the first of his miraculous signs. And he had to do that because she wouldn't leave him alone.

Speaker 1: 2:47

I'm telling you, the time is now. You've been praying, you've been fasting, you've been saying, lord, I have to have a breakthrough here. Lord, heal this, do that. Lord, bring deliverance here. No peace, relationship. Please bring marriage. Do this, do that. And it's time for you to rise up and just take your authority in Christ and know with faith that God is for you and not against you, and know that the time is now. The time is now. The time is now. The time is now you start telling the Lord. The time is now. Now is when you're. Bless me, 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 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.