We Watch Chronic Pain Break After Prayer

Seven out of ten people are reporting healing, the room feels charged with hope, and then we turn to the pastor on the front row and ask one question that cuts through the noise: “What do you need?” His answer is painfully specific a botched cancer surgery on his neck and severe, constant pain that has ruled his life for four and a half years. What happens after a simple, direct prayer becomes the kind of Christian healing testimony you replay, not for drama, but for clarity.

We talk through the moment the pain shifts into numbness, why that matters, and why honest questions like “Is numb good?” can keep a miracle story grounded. Then we do what more healing stories should do: we follow up days later. The numbness comes and goes, and so does the pain. Instead of calling it failure, we unpack the idea of healing as a process and why continuing to declare scripture can be a practical spiritual discipline when symptoms fluctuate.

The story expands to the pastor’s family: his mother’s severe stomach pain after liver surgery reportedly disappears after prayer, and his wife with asthma spends an entire day gardening without needing her inhaler. If you care about prayer for the sick, faith and healing, spiritual gifts, or how to think about miracles with both expectation and integrity, this conversation gives you real details and real questions to sit with.

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Transcript

Linda Budd 0:00

We were doing a healing service in another church, and healing was really flowing. I mean, seven out of every 10 people that we declared healing for were getting healed. And so I turned to the pastor who was sitting on the front row and I said, What do you need? And he did not stand up at that point, but he said that he had had a botched cancer surgery on the side of his neck, and that he is in severe pain all of the time. And so I had him stand up and I looked at him and I said, That pain is coming off of your face right now in the name of Jesus. And then I

Healing Breaks Out In Church

Linda Budd 0:44

asked him how it was, and he said that it was numb. And I said, Is numb good? And he said, Yes. Tears began to flow. He said, I have not been without severe pain

The Pastor Names His Pain

Linda Budd 0:58

for four and a half years, and this feels so good. I called him a few days later and I asked him, so what's going on? He said, Well, the numb comes and goes. And I said, So are you healed? He said, When the numb comes, the pain goes away. But then

A Bold Prayer And Numbness

Linda Budd 1:19

when the numb leaves, the pain comes back. I said, You're being healed. That is the touch of God upon you. And he does not do things halfway. After all, he cannot raise the dead halfway. So why would he heal halfway? And so I instructed this pastor to continue to declare scriptures over himself. And he knew that he should do that, and he does do that, and said that he would.

Follow Up On Ongoing Healing

Linda Budd 1:47

He then told me that the woman that I prayed for with the pain in the stomach was his mother, and she had had a liver surgery, and it had left her with severe pain. She has not had any pain since I declared her stomach pain-free. He also said that his wife, who had asthma, and I told her she was not gonna have it anymore, that her lungs, that her bronchial, that the sinuses, all of these things were clear now, and there'd be no more problem. He said she went outside and gardened all day, was digging in the dirt, was cutting stuff, removing

Healing For His Mother And Wife

Linda Budd 2:31

stuff out in the yard, and she never had to use her inhaler once. I am telling you that Jesus Christ is the God that heals. He is the God that heals and sets free.