Grief, Authority, And Joy

Grief can feel like a fog that won’t lift, the kind that turns every day into slow motion and steals the color from ordinary moments. We lean into a bold truth: some sorrow lingers like a spiritual weight, and you don’t have to carry it forever. With candor and compassion, we unpack how to confront heaviness, speak with authority, and make room for joy to return without denying the reality of loss.

You’ll hear a striking story from a recent service where a woman, crushed by twenty-two losses in eighteen months, answered a simple call: name the grief and command it to leave. The prayer wasn’t poetic; it was direct—addressing the spirit of heaviness and sending it where Christ directs. What followed was release, a shock of laughter, and the first breath of relief after a long season of holding it all together. We explore why this matters, how spiritual language helps when logic can’t untie the knot, and what it means to pair lament with deliverance instead of choosing one over the other.

We also offer a practical path you can use today. Name the weight you feel. Speak to it with authority and tell it to leave. Welcome the joy of the Lord as strength, not as a mask. Whether your loss came through death, divorce, or a slow unraveling of what you hoped for, you are not meant to live under a permanent shadow. This conversation invites you to step out from under heaviness, honor your memories, and recover the power to breathe, move, and love with a lighter heart.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Naming Grief As A Spirit
• 1:56 A Miraculous Encounter At Service
• 2:54 Commanding Heaviness To Lift
• 3:18 Declaring Joy And Freedom

Transcript

Linda Budd: 0:44

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. 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, 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. 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. 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 a 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. 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.