Hands That Heal: One Pastor's Mission to Restore the Broken

What happens when someone takes the biblical promises of healing at face value? Pastor Linda Budd shares extraordinary testimonies of divine healing from her ministry at Rivergate Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where miraculous physical restoration happens regularly.

The centerpiece of this powerful message revolves around a young woman who entered a service dependent on a cane due to post-surgical pain and numbness. Through a collective deliverance prayer against "spirits of infirmity," this first-time visitor experienced immediate sensation returning to her body—described as "heat and tingling"—followed by the ability to lift her previously immobile arm and walk without assistance. By the end of the service, she was running and dancing, completely transformed. The woman's mother, present at the service, witnessed the entire miraculous recovery.

But this wasn't an isolated incident. Pastor Linda recounts how this single healing triggered a wave of restoration throughout the congregation, with multiple attendees receiving instant healing for shoulder and back problems. She emphasizes the importance of active participation in receiving healing—speaking declarations aloud rather than silently, physically moving in faith, and claiming divine restoration as an inheritance through Christ's sacrifice. For those seeking physical healing, Pastor Linda extends prayer directly to listeners, encouraging them to receive "new body parts coming from heaven" as they take steps of faith. If you're interested in experiencing this healing ministry firsthand, contact Rivergate Church at 918-492-5511 to inquire about having Pastor Linda speak at your event or congregation.

Chapters

• 0:00 Linda's Healing Ministry Introduction
• 0:43 Deliverance Service Testimony
• 1:52 Woman Healed From Mobility Issues
• 3:18 Multiple Healings Occur
• 4:03 Invitation for Speaking Engagements

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. Listen to this testimony.

Speaker 1: 0:43

During the healing service, I decided it was time that we all did deliverance on ourselves from a spirit of infirmity, and so I had everybody walk to the front and led us in prayers and renouncing all the different manifestations of the spirit of infirmity. And there were about 24 people doing this, and I made sure that everyone was opening their mouth, that they were doing this out loud, because demons cannot read your thoughts, but they can hear you when you speak, and so we were getting rid of all of these different things. Well then, when we got done, I said now let's just worship the Lord. And so we did. And then I had everybody check their bodies to see if any change had happened in their bodies. One woman began to get so excited she had walked into the service with a cane. This was a visitor. I had never met her or seen her before, and suddenly she began lifting her arms and yelling. I could not lift my right arm any higher than this. And she said I have had a surgery and I had so much pain on the entire right side of my body that it went numb and I've had to use this cane.

Speaker 1: 2:07

This was a young woman and she said I can feel heat and tingling in my body. And she began lifting her feet up and down and she could now do that. And I said walk with me. And I kicked her cane aside and she began to walk with me. And then she just kept on lifting her arms up and down and so I asked does anyone know this woman? Another woman spoke up and said yes, this is my daughter. That woman got so excited she began to dance and run all across the front because her daughter had gotten free by the end of the meeting, which was about an hour later, this young woman went out of the sanctuary and then she just came running back in and wanted to thank me again and said look at me, look at me, I can walk, I can lift my arms. Oh, we give praise to God as a result of that happening.

Speaker 1: 3:11

Then I said who else needs a rotator cuff healed? Several people did, and they were getting their shoulders healed instantly. I asked who else has a back issue like this woman and needs your back issued? Five, six people got their backs healed, and so I want to tell you that if you have a shoulder issue or a back issue right now, begin to receive your healing. There's a new shoulder coming out of heaven for you. There's a new back coming out of heaven for you. Begin to move, begin to take three steps forward and say this healing belongs to me because of what Jesus did on the cross on Calvary, and I receive my healing now in the name of Jesus. 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.