Podcast Summary: RealCUF – Billy Burke Healing School Session 1 (December 2, 2025)

Host: RealCUF
Guest Speaker: Billy Burke

Episode Overview

Main Theme:
This episode launches a “Healing School” series with evangelist and healing minister Billy Burke. The focus is on the role of the Holy Spirit in healing, the importance of God’s presence over miraculous power alone, and how believers can cultivate a lifestyle that retains healing and spiritual vitality. Burke draws from personal testimony, ministry experiences, and biblical teaching to challenge listeners to shift from passive Christianity to intentional pursuit and engagement with God.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Role of the Holy Spirit in Healing

• After Jesus Ascended: All spiritual gifts and healings now come by way of the Holy Spirit.

  “Everything we get now we get by way of the Holy Spirit because of Calvary.” (00:03)

• Gifts are His, Not Ours: Burke stresses that miracles and healings are not his doing—they’re manifestations of God, not human power.
• Welcome the Spirit: Listeners are encouraged to personally welcome the Holy Spirit’s presence, not just corporately.

2. Testimony & The Power of Expectation

• Resurrection Story: Shares a vivid account of a man raised from the dead in a service after his wife persuaded him to attend (00:08).
• Expectation as a Seed: Miracle testimonies (including his own healings from cancer) illustrate the necessity of expectation and preparation for miracles.

  “She was preparing me for a miracle. She was planting a seed of expectation.” (01:07)

• Practical Point: Healing is more often kept when faith and expectation precede and follow a touch from God.

3. Why People Lose Their Healing

• Pursuit versus Passivity: Many receive healing or spiritual gifts temporarily, but fail to “keep” them due to a lack of pursuit and discipline.

  “It’s not what you get in life that counts, it’s what you keep… It’s the healing that you keep.” (00:51)

• Automatic Blessing Ended: Adam and Eve’s fall ended “automatic” blessing. Now, pursuit is required—faith in action, not only knowledge.

4. The Habits and Presence Principle

• Presence Over Power: The real transformative change happens through cultivating God’s presence, not chasing power or experiences (02:20).

  “It’s not about the power. It’s about me. It’s not about Your healing. It’s about me.” (02:53)

• Holy Habits: Daily habits, not sporadic “good meetings,” break the yoke.

  “Steady pressure is what breaks the yoke.” (02:19)

• Imagination in Faith: The mind can be used to reinforce healing (“What would you do if you could see again?” 03:33), just as easily as it can reinforce doubt or sin.

5. Obstacles to Receiving & Retaining Healing

• Feeling Unworthy: Many miss their healing because deep down they don't believe they deserve it, often due to unresolved sin or shame.

  “The number one reason people don’t manifest their healing... It’s in their eyes. ‘I’m not worth it. I still smoke. I’m still running around.’” (01:45)

• Visiting, Not Carrying, Presence: People enjoy revival services but rarely integrate the presence of God into daily life.

6. Breakthroughs, Miracles, and Obedience

• Challenging Expectations: Burke recounts challenging a diabetic woman to check her sugar after prayer—resulting in a dramatic improvement (02:40).
• Faith and Action: Faith releases healing, but obedience retains it. Habits (prayer, confession, gratitude) nurture this.

7. How to Stir Up God’s Presence

• Write Things Down: Active engagement (notes, journaling, declaring) is encouraged—God told His leaders to write it down (01:22).
• Stir Up the Gift: Just as one can stir up anger or lust with a thought, you can stir up holy presence and expectation.

  “If you can stir up anger by a thought… imagine being able to stir up presence.” (02:56)

• Guard Against Negativity: Maintain “zero tolerance” for negativity and dilute influences, even from other Christians (02:58).

8. Obedience is Key

• Following Promptings: Many stories illustrate stepping out when God nudges, even if it means doing something unusual.
• Reward for Consistency: Steady, consistent pursuit and action breaks strongholds and brings lasting healing.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Healing as God’s Work:

  “If I had gifts, I would be using him instead of him using me.” (00:04)

• On Unbelief and Expectation:

  “Unbelief will get on your nerves... It’ll make you crazy.” (00:15)

• On Preparation for Miracles:

  “Your notes are not automatic… automatic stopped when the Garden of Eden was closed.” (00:54)

• On Presence vs. Power:

  “It’s not about the power. It’s about me.” (02:53)

• On Stirring Up the Gift:

  “If you can stir up anger... imagine being able to stir up presence.” (02:56)

• On Steady Pursuit:

  “Steady pressure is what breaks the yoke, not that good meeting, not that good conference. Steady.” (02:19)

• On Full-Time Christianity:

  “You can’t fight a full time devil as a part-time Christian.” (01:48)

• On Habits vs. Desire:

  “Holy habits are more powerful than what I desire.” (02:22)

Important Timestamps

• [00:03] – Introduction: The Holy Spirit is the agent of all miracles after Christ.
• [00:08] – Fort Myers Resurrection Story: Miracle healing and lesson in expectation.
• [01:07] – Kathyrn Kuhlman Testimony: Billy’s healing from brain cancer, seed of expectation.
• [00:51] – Healing and Retention: Why pursuit and keeping matter.
• [01:22] – The Importance of Writing & Journaling: Write things down.
• [01:45] – The Main Reason for Missed Healings: “Not feeling worthy.”
• [02:19] – Habits Over Desire: “Steady pressure breaks the yoke.”
• [02:40] – Miracle at Eagle Mountain: Diabetic woman’s sugar drops from 580 to 140.
• [02:53] – Presence before Power: Patterns in Jesus’ miracles.
• [02:56] – How to Stir Up Presence: Comparison to stirring up negative emotions.
• [03:33] – Faith Imagined: Encouraging a blind man to picture himself seeing again.

Audience Q&A and Testimonies

• Miraculous Healings: Multiple crowd testimonies of permanent healings from previous services: anxiety, back pain, thyroid issues, wheelchair use, chronic pain.
• Direct Ministry: Live, in-the-moment prayers and healings—including for chronic pain, hearing loss, kidney stones, etc.
• Questions Answered:
  • How does Burke receive what to pray for? (03:53 onward) – He “empties himself” before each meeting and listens for God.
  • What happens when you ignore God’s promptings? (After 03:53) – God’s call is persistent and irresistible; repeated exposure eventually motivates obedience.

Actionable Takeaways & Final Encouragements

Practical Steps to Stir Up God’s Presence and Keep Healing:

• Acknowledge Your Need: “I need you” is the best prayer; God responds to dependence, not self-sufficiency.
• Engage Habits: Regular prayer, declaring faith, writing down what God has done—these keep you connected to power.
• Guard Your Input: Choose faith-filled influences and cut out negativity and cynicism, even from believers.
• Don’t Just Visit, Carry His Presence: Move from being a visitor of revival meetings to one who hosts the presence at home and in daily life.
• Obey Promptings: Even odd or small instructions from God may be the key to breakthrough.
• Imagination and Faith: Use your imagination in faith—picture yourself healed, whole, and living in God’s promise.

Memorable Call to Action

• “You can’t stir up what you don’t have… If you want to call upon Him, make it a habit, not a one-time thing.”

• “All God wants from us is to be believed—that he can heal you, save you, forgive you, give you a new start, and remove all scar tissue from your past.”

Final Blessing (End of Episode)

• “Release the chains of yesterday, surrender tonight, stir up the Holy Spirit in you—and healing will flow to you and to many others.” (End; ~04:16)

Closing Notes

Language and Tone:
The tone is conversational, passionate, direct, and filled with faith, challenge, humor, and personal candor.

Invitation:
Listeners are invited to come back for further sessions and to come expecting not just to learn, but to encounter and carry God’s healing presence.