What if weakness doesn’t get the final say over your life? We sit down with Pastor Linda Budd from Rivergate Church in Tulsa to explore healing prayer, authority, and stories of people who walked in exhausted and left with fresh strength. From the first moment, Linda shares why she takes the biblical call to lay hands on the sick at face value, and how years of praying for people shaped her conviction that fatigue, disease, and fear can be confronted with hope.
The heart of the conversation is a vivid testimony. Linda describes sensing that someone in the room was battling constant weakness, inviting her to come forward, and praying with clear, simple words: let draining weight lift and new energy fill your body. Soon another person shares a recent diagnosis with a shortened timeline. Linda responds by refusing despair and speaking life, addressing not only symptoms but the heavy story attached to them. Whether you share her faith tradition or are simply curious about spiritual healing, the emotional arc is universal—meeting fear, daring to hope, and choosing to step toward a future that feels possible again.
We also talk about perseverance: why ongoing prayer matters, how community support shifts mindset, and what it means to claim strength for each day even when circumstances look unchanged. You’ll hear a blend of pastoral insight, compassionate realism, and bold expectation that invites you to stand up inside—body and soul. If you’ve felt worn down, worried by a diagnosis, or unsure how to pray when words run out, this conversation offers a path: speak life, ask for help, and keep showing up for your own healing journey.
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Episode Transcript
Hi, I'm Linda Budd.
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I'm a pastor at Rivergate Churchin Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And I take the scripturesliterally that says that we are
to lay hands on the sick and seethem recover.
And so for several years I'vegone after a healing anointing.
I've prayed for people dozens oftimes over the years, and I see
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so many get healed.
I've seen all manner of sicknessand 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.
(00:43):
We were having a service and Ilooked up at the people and all
of a sudden I heard weakness.
I I understood that somebody wasjust really suffering with
weakness in their body, noenergy, and they just felt so
weak all the time.
And then I felt like I knew whoit was, so I asked her, and she
said, Yes.
(01:03):
And uh this is a lady that'sbeen healed of so many things in
my services.
And I said, Well, just walk onup here because when you do, the
spirit of God is going to comeall over you, and new energy is
going to come into your body,and this spirit that is trying
to drain you of strength, tryingto drain you of life, is coming
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off of you.
And I said, You life-suckingspirit, you get off of her right
now in the name of Jesus.
I command you to go where Jesuswill send you.
And so uh the spirit of God justreally, really touched her, and
I saw her look different.
(01:45):
And then there was anotherperson too that said she had
great weakness in her body, andso we commanded that off of her,
and she said that she just gotdiagnosed with a disease, and I
can't remember what it was, uh,that told her that she only has
five years to live and she'salready had it for a year.
(02:07):
And I said, Well, that is comingoff of you now, in the name of
Jesus.
And uh we just really tookauthority over the spirit of
death and commanded it to go.
So if you have weakness in yourbody or if you've been diagnosed
with a disease and they've givenyou only so long to live, we
command the life-sucking spiritoff now in the name of Jesus,
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and we take authority over thespirit of death, and we say,
Come up and out and go whereJesus sends you right now.
But I declare that as your day,so shall your strength be
according to the word of God,and you will live a long and
healthy life in Jesus' name.
Aren't these just greattestimonies of the goodness of
God and the healing power ofJesus Christ?
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If you are interested in havingme come and speak at a
motivational event, your church,or a conference of some sort, I
am more than happy to considerthat invitation.
Please contact my church'soffice, Rivergate Church Tulsa,
918-492-5511, and we'll see ifwe can set something up.
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God bless you.
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