Hope After Eleven Surgeries

A hurting stranger shows up at church with a story that feels almost too heavy to carry: a marriage ending in divorce, a body worn down by injuries, and a medical history that includes eleven surgeries after a devastating fall from a horse. We can tell she is deeply sad, and we do what faith communities are meant to do at their best, we stop, we listen, and we pray. 

What happens next is the kind of moment people rarely describe with tidy outcomes. We do not claim she is instantly, totally healed. Instead, we pay attention to something just as real: the change in her. As we pray for her knees, hip, heel, and overall recovery, it looks like hope comes back online. For anyone navigating chronic pain, repeated procedures, or exhaustion from “trying everything,” this conversation holds space for the possibility that God can move even when the timeline is unclear. 

We also talk plainly about persistence and practical faith. We encourage you to keep reading the Bible and applying it, to keep declaring what you believe, and to keep “grabbing a hold” when discouragement tries to take over. We reference two cornerstone passages often connected with Christian healing prayer and divine healing teaching: Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24. If you are searching for encouragement, prayer, and a reminder that you are not alone, this is for you. 

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Transcript

Linda Budd 0:44

A lady came who said she was looking for the a new church and she'd been there before. And I knew that she was a sad lady. I knew that her she and her husband were getting a divorce. I asked her what she needed to be healed up, and she needed new knees and she needed a left uh hip, heel, and so forth. She said she'd been through 11 surgeries. She fell off a horse and got hurt really, really bad. And she just seemed like a very sad person. Well, we began to pray for her, and we began to see things change in her. And though I can't say she was totally healed,

A New Visitor With Heavy Pain

Linda Budd 1:28

God began to move upon her, and it looked like some hope came back on her. And I hope that she began to get new knees and uh and a new hip and all these things, but I don't know for sure. But I hope that she'll keep pressing in. I hope she'll keep reading the scriptures and applying them, and I hope she'll keep declaring I am healed by the blood of the Lord. And uh I Isaiah 53 5 says you're already healed. And 1 Peter 2 24, we are healed already. And so grab a hold. Grab a hold

Prayer That Reignites Hope

Linda Budd 2:02

if that's you. You've got to grab a hold. And so I want to encourage you with that now in Jesus' name.