Devil, Be Gone: How I Kicked Epilepsy Out the Door

What happens when scripture is taken literally? Pastor Linda Budd of Rivergate Church shares extraordinary testimonies from her healing ministry that challenge conventional understanding of illness and recovery.

Meet a woman who came to service with broken ribs, struggling to breathe. After prayer, she exclaimed, "I can breathe, I can breathe!" But that was just the beginning. When she later revealed her fractured spine and lifelong battle with epilepsy, Pastor Linda took spiritual authority over these conditions. Witnesses watched in astonishment as the woman's bent posture straightened before their eyes. Two weeks later—no seizures, after years of weekly episodes.

Pastor Linda approaches healing with righteous indignation toward sickness, especially conditions like epilepsy which she identifies as spiritual oppression rather than merely physical ailments. "Epilepsy is a devil, it is not very strong," she explains, offering practical instructions for confronting illness through faith-based authority. Her experiences suggest that divine healing isn't limited to biblical times but continues as a present reality for those who approach it with confidence and spiritual authority.

This testimony represents countless others Pastor Linda has witnessed throughout years of pursuing what she calls a "healing anointing." For skeptics, these accounts raise questions. For believers, they confirm scripture's promises. Either way, they provide a fascinating glimpse into a world where supernatural intervention is expected and celebrated as evidence of God's power working today.

Want to experience this ministry firsthand? Pastor Linda is available for speaking engagements at churches, conferences, and motivational events. Contact Rivergate Church in Tulsa at 918-492-5511 to learn more about scheduling opportunities.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Linda Budd.
I'm a pastor at RivergateChurch in Tulsa, oklahoma, and I
take the scriptures literally.
That says that we are to layhands on the sick and see them
recover, and so for severalyears I've gone after a healing
anointing.
I've prayed for people dozensof times over the years and I

(00:22):
see so many get healed.
I've seen all manner ofsickness and disease healed.
If you have any pain in yourbody, if you're infirmed, if you
have any disease, if you haveany sickness at all, I just
reach my hand up to heaven rightnow in the name of Jesus, and I
call forth the new body partthat you need.
Listen to this testimony.

(00:42):
It was a recharge service on aWednesday night and I had just
gotten done preaching and I sawa woman whom I've never seen
before and I asked her if shehad pain in her back.
She responded that she did not,but that she had fallen and
broken her ribs.
She was in pain.
I told her to walk to the front.
The kingdom of God would hither and heal her.

(01:04):
So as she walked up, I got hitwith that wonder-working power.
I then told her she was healed.
She began to say I can breathe,I can breathe.
She was so excited.
I asked her if the pain wasgone and she reported that it
was.
But the thing she was mostexcited about was that she could
breathe.
Sunday night she came back.

(01:24):
She testified that she couldstill breathe just fine.
She then said that when shefell she fractured her spine.
I told her to walk to the frontand Jesus would give her a new
spine.
As she was coming to the front,she also said that she had
epilepsy.
Oh, that's when I got mad.

(01:45):
Epilepsy is a controllingspirit from the devil and I am
not going to tolerate it.
I've seen so many healed whohave had it even 30 seizures per
day gone in an instant.
Now, when she started comingforward, she was very much bent
over to the side because of thefracture of her spine.
But I took authority over thatepileptic devil and suddenly,

(02:06):
right before everyone's eyes,she totally straightened up.
The usher was a big guy and hestarted screaming.
He saw it right in his face andshe was so stunned as well and
smiling big.
Everyone there thought Ithought as well.
I explained that she also gotdelivered from that epileptic

(02:26):
demon, but I didn't know forsure.
So here she came back on aWednesday night and she looked
so good standing up pollenstraight, and at the close of
the service I asked fortestimonies.
Well, she came up to share allof the above that I just told
you, and then she stated thatshe no longer has epilepsy.

(02:47):
Well, she came up to share allof the above that I just told
you, and then she stated thatshe no longer has epilepsy.
I asked her how often she hadthose seizures and she stated at
least once a week and had hadthat way for years and years.
Well, now it's been two weeksand she's had no seizures.
Glory to God, do not tolerateepilepsy.
It is a devil, it is not verystrong and you can get mad at

(03:17):
that thing because you haveauthority over it and you can
look that thing in the face inthe spirit, and you can say, in
the name of Jesus, you epilepticdevil, you are coming up and
out now and you are not going tocontrol this person any longer
and I declare that you are freein the name of Jesus.
Aren't these just greattestimonies of the goodness of
God and the healing power ofJesus Christ?

(03:38):
If you are interested in havingme come and speak at a
motivational event, your churchor a conference of some sort.
I am more than happy toconsider that invitation.
Please contact my church'soffice, rivergate Church, tulsa,
918-492-5511, and we'll see ifwe can set something up.

(04:02):
God bless you.