A Visitor Walks In Hurting And Leaves Healed And Born Again

A stranger walked into our Sunday night service with searing, shifting stomach pain and a heart weighed down by betrayal and relapse. What happened next was simple and profound: we prayed, she was healed, and a quiet smile replaced fear. Afterward, we asked a gentle question—do you know Jesus?—and watched a life open to forgiveness, peace, and a brand-new start.

We share Elizabeth’s story step by step: a word of knowledge that spotlighted hidden pain, a bold prayer for a “brand new stomach,” and the surprise of immediate relief. Then came deeper healing. Elizabeth told us about years of alcoholism, a hard-won year of sobriety, and a sudden relapse triggered by her husband’s adultery and abandonment. Her tears didn’t signal defeat; they marked release. Together we prayed for her salvation, and she met the presence that steadies shaking hands and quiets a racing mind. This is where physical healing and spiritual renewal meet, where deliverance intersects with daily discipleship.

Across the conversation we unpack how freedom often arrives in two movements: a decisive breakthrough that ends torment, and a faithful process that guards the ground you gain. We talk practically about recovery, prayer, and community; how to confront sickness and addiction with hope; and why surrender is not weakness but the path to strength. If you’re carrying pain in your body or a dependency that keeps calling your name, this story offers more than inspiration—it offers a way forward, one honest step at a time.

Listen to be encouraged, challenged, and reminded that no setback has the final word. If this episode helped you believe for your own breakthrough, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to help others find their way to freedom.

Transcript

A Visitor With Moving Pain

Pastor Linda Budd 0:44

Elizabeth came and visited our service. I had never met her before, and I got a word of knowledge that someone had pain in the stomach. She lifted her hand and she said it was her, that it was just gray pain and that it moved around. Well, you know, anytime pain moves around, you know that that's a demon in there moving around, but you don't have to have pain that moves around to know that it's from the devil because all sickness is from the devil. So I said, you walk on up here, and Jesus is giving you a brand new stomach, and that is exactly what happened to her. She was so thrilled. She went back to her seat. She was smiling. At the close of the service, when my husband and I were getting ready to make a video clip of what had happened in the evening, she walked forward and she stopped us. And we began to talk. And I asked her if she knew Jesus, if she had him in her heart, and she said no. And so I told her that she needed a savior. His name is Jesus, that she needed to ask him to forgive her of her sins coming through uh to come into her life, and she wanted to do that, so she did. So we prayed the prayer of salvation, and she began to cry so hard. And then she was just so thrilled, and she told me that she had come looking for a church on that Sunday night because she had been an alcoholic for so many years, and she'd been free for over a year, and suddenly, because of bad news from her husband who had left her and was committing adultery, she had just gotten so drunk. Well, she's getting free of that addiction, and she's got Jesus in her heart now, and she's healed. If you have addiction in your life or you know someone that does, I want to encourage you to bring him to Jesus. I want to also encourage you that if you have pain in your body, it's leaving now in Jesus' name.