How Prayer For Weakness Became A Catalyst For Unexpected Healing

What if weakness doesn’t get the final say over your life? We sit down with Pastor Linda Budd from Rivergate Church in Tulsa to explore healing prayer, authority, and stories of people who walked in exhausted and left with fresh strength. From the first moment, Linda shares why she takes the biblical call to lay hands on the sick at face value, and how years of praying for people shaped her conviction that fatigue, disease, and fear can be confronted with hope.

The heart of the conversation is a vivid testimony. Linda describes sensing that someone in the room was battling constant weakness, inviting her to come forward, and praying with clear, simple words: let draining weight lift and new energy fill your body. Soon another person shares a recent diagnosis with a shortened timeline. Linda responds by refusing despair and speaking life, addressing not only symptoms but the heavy story attached to them. Whether you share her faith tradition or are simply curious about spiritual healing, the emotional arc is universal—meeting fear, daring to hope, and choosing to step toward a future that feels possible again.

We also talk about perseverance: why ongoing prayer matters, how community support shifts mindset, and what it means to claim strength for each day even when circumstances look unchanged. You’ll hear a blend of pastoral insight, compassionate realism, and bold expectation that invites you to stand up inside—body and soul. If you’ve felt worn down, worried by a diagnosis, or unsure how to pray when words run out, this conversation offers a path: speak life, ask for help, and keep showing up for your own healing journey.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction & Healing Focus
• 0:27 Prayer For Pain And New Strength
• 0:40 Testimony: Word Of Knowledge On Weakness
• 1:09 Deliverance And Renewed Energy
• 1:46 Diagnosis, Authority Over Death, Declaration
• 2:47 Invitation To Connect & Closing Blessing

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 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. We were having a service and I looked up at the people and all of a sudden I heard weakness. I I understood that somebody was just really suffering with weakness in their body, no energy, and they just felt so weak all the time. And then I felt like I knew who it was, so I asked her, and she said, Yes. And uh this is a lady that's been healed of so many things in my services. And I said, Well, just walk on up here because when you do, the spirit of God is going to come all over you, and new energy is going to come into your body, and this spirit that is trying to drain you of strength, trying to drain you of life, is coming off of you. And I said, You life-sucking spirit, you get off of her right now in the name of Jesus. I command you to go where Jesus will send you. And so uh the spirit of God just really, really touched her, and I saw her look different. And then there was another person too that said she had great weakness in her body, and so we commanded that off of her, and she said that she just got diagnosed with a disease, and I can't remember what it was, uh, that told her that she only has five years to live and she's already had it for a year. And I said, Well, that is coming off of you now, in the name of Jesus. And uh we just really took authority over the spirit of death and commanded it to go. So if you have weakness in your body or if you've been diagnosed with a disease and they've given you only so long to live, we command the life-sucking spirit off now in the name of Jesus, and we take authority over the spirit of death, and we say, Come up and out and go where Jesus sends you right now. But I declare that as your day, so shall your strength be according to the word of God, and you will live a long and healthy life 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.