Vertebrae from Heaven: When Faith Meets Healing

What happens when chronic pain that's haunted someone for over 40 years suddenly vanishes? Pastor Linda Budd takes us on a remarkable journey through divine healing experiences that defy conventional explanation.

At Rivergate Church in Tulsa, Pastor Budd approaches scripture literally—particularly the mandate to "lay hands on the sick and see them recover." Her pursuit of a healing anointing has yielded extraordinary results across various conditions. The centerpiece of this episode revolves around a visiting woman who experienced complete freedom from back pain that had plagued her since adolescence. During a healing service primarily focused on hip conditions, this woman received a supernatural vision of "three vertebrae coming out of heaven"—precisely what her back needed. The moment she stood up, decades of constant pain vanished completely. 

But the story doesn't end with physical healing. What follows is a profound spiritual encounter where prophetic words about the woman's identity as an intercessor trigger an overwhelming divine experience. The teaching culminates in a powerful shift in perspective about prayer itself—moving from merely asking God to act toward stepping into spiritual authority and making declarations. This transformative approach challenges listeners to reconsider how they approach both physical ailments and spiritual breakthrough.

Have you been struggling with chronic pain or illness? These testimonies are shared not just as stories but as invitations to experience similar healing. If you're touched by these accounts of divine intervention, consider inviting Pastor Budd to speak at your church, conference, or motivational event by contacting Rivergate Church in Tulsa.

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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 several years I'vegone 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.

(00:43):
We were ministering healing forhips and two people had already
gotten their hips healed and Isaid is there anyone else that
needs to have your hip healed?
Well, a lady who was visitingraised her hand and she said I
see stuff and I saw threevertebrae come out of heaven and
that's exactly what I need.
And then she just stopped and Isaid well, I believe you're

(01:07):
being healed.
And I said why don't you get upand walk to the front?
Because I believe that thatpain is going to be gone and
that you're going to findyourself healed.
So she did, and when she got upthere I said where's the pain?
And she said it's gone.
And I said how long have youhad this pain?
Did you have it while you werein your seat?
She said I have had this painsince I was 18 years old.

(01:31):
I'm never without pain.
She was obviously in her 60s, sothis was so amazing for her to
stand there in no pain.
So I told her that she washealed and that God had met her
there, and what a wonderful dayit was.
Well, then my daughter said Ihave a word for her.

(01:52):
And so she walked up and shesaid, began to say two words to
this woman, and they meant somuch to her that the power of
God came upon her and she justcrumpled to the floor with a
shriek.
It was wonderful and amazing.
It had something to do with herbeing an intercessor, and so

(02:12):
then my husband got up and saidget her back to her feet,
because I have a word for her.
So they got her back up and hesaid you've been praying and
asking God to do stuff for you,and you pray like this all the
time, but the Lord wants you tostart taking a step up and using
your authority and begin todeclare and decree some things,

(02:36):
instead of just asking God to doit.
Now there's a lesson for you.
So please take this testimony,use any and all of it that you
can to apply it to your life,but I declare to you, in the
name of Jesus, that yourvertebrae in your back are being
healed now.
In Jesus' name, aren't thesejust great testimonies of the

(02:59):
goodness of God and the healingpower of Jesus Christ?
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 to considerthat invitation.
Please contact my church'soffice, rivergate Church, tulsa,
918-492-5511, and we'll see ifwe can set something up.

(03:26):
God bless you.