Lost 22 People In 18 Months And Still Found Joy

Grief can feel like it rewires your whole life, and sometimes it doesn’t lift with time, sleep, or willpower. We’re talking about that kind of heaviness, and we’re also praying for real healing in the body, with Linda Budd, a pastor at Rivergate Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who takes seriously the biblical call to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. 

Linda shares what she has seen through years of healing ministry and why she prays with simple, direct faith for pain, sickness, disease, and even the need for new body parts. If you’re searching for a Christian prayer for healing, miracle testimonies, and encouragement when your diagnosis or symptoms have worn you down, you’ll hear language you can borrow and repeat, plus a reminder that hope is not irresponsible when it’s rooted in Jesus. 

The conversation turns to deliverance from grief, which Linda describes as more than a feeling when it becomes a lasting oppression. She tells a striking testimony from a miracle service where a woman admits she lost 22 people in 18 months and is drowning in sorrow. Linda prays, takes authority over the spirit of grief and heaviness, and describes a moment of release that ends in laughter and restored joy, anchored in the promise that the joy of the Lord is your strength. 

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Transcript

Introducing Linda's Healing Ministry

Linda Budd 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 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. 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 the 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.