A Cortisone Shot Could Not Fix It

A flipped table in the temple might feel far from your day to day pain, but I believe it points to something practical: when Jesus restores prayer to the centre, healing follows. I’m Pastor Linda Budd, and I share a moment from preaching on the scripture where Jesus calls out a “den of robbers” and then turns to mercy, healing the blind and the lame right away. That order matters, and it shapes how we pray in church and what we expect God to do.

We move from the Bible story to real bodies in a real service, praying for eye disease, blindness, and all kinds of lameness, from hips and knees to ankles, feet, and toes. One woman’s story stands out: she’s in so much foot pain she can barely work, she’s seen a doctor, she’s endured a painful cortisone shot, and she still hurts. She comes with a simple goal, to be healed, and we pray with specific faith as she stands, walks, and moves her foot until the pain is gone.

Then we go further, addressing sciatica and hip pain as she tests her movement and does what she could not do before. I close with a reminder I want you to sit with: symptoms are not God. If you’re searching for Christian healing, prayer for healing, faith healing testimonies, or encouragement that Jesus still heals today, this is for you. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs hope, and leave a review telling me what stood out to you most.

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I was preaching on the scripture that talked about Jesus came into the temple and immediately went and turned over the tables of the money changers. And he said, You've all made it a den of robbers, and my house is to be a house of prayer. And then what did he immediately do? He healed the blind and the lame. So in that service, I said, We're going to get blind eyes, any kind of eye disease is healed. And then I moved on to lameness. If you've got any kind of lameness in your body, whether it's hips, whether it's knees, whether it's a sciatica problem, ankles, feet, toes, whatever, lift your hand. Well, so there were several that

Jesus Cleanses The Temple

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did, and one stuck out to me. And I said, What is your problem? She said, I have such pain in my foot that I couldn't even work. I had to go to the doctor. He gave me a cortisone shot, which hurt so bad. And she said, I still can hardly work. I'm still in so much

Calling For Healing In The Room

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pain. And she said, I came to be healed. And I said, Stand up. Jesus is giving you a brand new foot. And I said, Now walk up here. And she did. And I said, Now move it around. And she did. And the pain was gone. And she said, I still have a sciatica problem, though the foot problem made it move

A Woman Shares Severe Foot Pain

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on up. And I said, Well, that's coming off of you now in the name of Jesus. You've got perfect hips. Move them around. And so she started to do some things that she couldn't do. And the delight on her face was absolutely gorgeous. And so I want to say to you that there's nothing too hard for God just because it's on your body and it's coming off now. These symptoms are not God. God is God.

A Brand New Foot In Prayer

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And your foot problem is being healed. The sciatic is being healed, the hips are being healed, and anything else that is causing you lameness, you are receiving

Sciatica, Hips, And Bold Encouragement

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total healing now in the name of Jesus.