SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. Now I’m gonna really stretch you. My guest, Billy Burke, I have got medical documentation of someone that had a stomach surgically removed and they now have a stomach of someone that was given, look at this documentation, a new lung. Billy Burke, I am in awe of these creative miracles and it’s not just those, too. I mean, you have gone into a zone of creative miracles. But I want to find out a bit about you. In fact, before we started this show I was saying the hero of your life has to be your grandmother. Tell me why.
BILLY: Well my grandmother really was the only member in our family that was exposed to the supernatural. You know, she was an avid Kathryn Kuhlman listener on the radio. I grew up in Pittsburgh and so she was exposed to the early days of Oral Roberts and Kathryn Kuhlman.
SID: I’m so glad she was, because at age nine, according to my notes, you had terminal brain cancer.
BILLY: Yes I did.
SID: You had like a few days to live?
BILLY: Three days. I was in a hospital in Pittsburgh, three days to live, and they had me dismissed against doctors’ wishes to take me to a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting.
SID: But your grandmother got you dismissed a little earlier.
BILLY: About five days.
SID: And she did something for you that everyone should have a grandmother like Billy Burke had.
BILLY: I think it’s a secret to a miracle. I think it’s one of the major secrets to a miracle. Because we know how to prepare for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for fishing, for weddings, for funerals. We can even prepare for church. But how do you get ready to receive if you’re blind? How do you get ready to receive? How do you prepare to receive a miracle? And I was dismissed about a week early, from Monday to Thursday, the meeting was on a Friday morning. From Monday to Thursday, every moment that she got, now I had a patch over my eye.
SID: Why did you have a patch over one eye?
BILLY: My vision was double. I had double vision. My motor skills were pretty deteriorated. I had lumps on my back, cancer lumps all over my back.
SID: Did you know you were going to die in three days?
BILLY: Yeah. They prepared me as much as they could.
SID: So how did you handle it when your grandmother kept saying to you–
BILLY: “When she touches you.” That’s what she said. “When she touches you.” And here I am home at my house in Greensburg, PA.
SID: Over and over again.
BILLY: Every chance. Every chance she would get.
SID: When that woman, that’s Kathryn Kuhlman, touches you, did she say, “You will be healed”?
BILLY: You will be healed. When she touches you. When she touches you. When she touches you. So by the time Friday morning we’re driving down to the meeting and she’s on that same thing, “When she touches you.” I didn’t know what she was doing then. I do now. Because I didn’t know how to prepare for that. You know, most people walk into a service, even a miracle service and they’re not prepared for it, you know. And so we were in the balcony and I was watching all of that through one eye, and I was amazed at what I was seeing. I thought this is like a show.
SID: You were at the best show in town.
BILLY: The best show in town. All of a sudden, Kathryn pointed to me and she said, “You, get down here. You’re being healed.”
SID: How did she know it was you? There were a lot of people there.
BILLY: There were about 2000 people.
SID: How did she know it was you?
BILLY: I don’t know. I just felt like her finger touched my nose. And she said, “Get down here.” And I said No.
SID: No! You’re dying, Billy.
BILLY: Yeah, I know.
SID: Come to your senses.
BILLY: And she said, “I said get down here!” And I said no the second time. And the third time she said, “Ushers, get him down here.” So she sent two ushers up into the balcony to get me and brought me down to stand next to her, and that’s when she began to talk ask me my name. She said, “Do you believe?” She said, “Do you believe?” And I said, “Yeah, I believe.” And she turned around to walk away. And I remember taking a sigh of relief thinking, “Well I passed the test.” And she spun around and she said, “I said, ‘Do you believe!’” And it was something. And now I know what that something was. It was the presence of the Holy Spirit went all through me. And her hand was reaching to my head. I could hear my grandmother’s voice. My grandma said, “When she touches you. When she touches you. When she touches you.” Here comes this hand. “When she touches you. When she touches you.” So my grandmother’s words had prepared me for that chiros moment.
SID: That overpowered every unbelief, everything, that’s all you heard inside of your head.
BILLY: Right. A God breathed the word, a word fitly spoken. “When she touches you.” Again, I didn’t know at that time, as I would know now, preparing people to receive the anointing.
SID: So she touches. To the best of your memory, you were just nine years old.
BILLY: I remember it like it was yesterday.
SID: But what happened to you when she touched you?
BILLY: It was like yesterday. It was incredible presence, power, titillating, riveting.
SID: You said the power was so strong three rows of people–
BILLY: Four rows fell.
SID: What do you mean fell? Out of their chairs?
BILLY: They fell. It was all pews. So they fell back in their pews. Some were laying across their pews. I was laying on a marble floor pinned like this. I was like groggy. I was like, as we would call it today, drunk in the spirit. And I remember I tried to get up and I couldn’t move anything. I thought I’d die. I actually thought that I’d die. And I thought that strange lady came with me, ‘cause she was standing over me saying, “All the faith in this boy, the faith in this boy.”
SID: No it wasn’t. It was the faith in your grandmother that put her faith inside of you. Let’s give credit to where credit’s due.
BILLY: I concur. I concur. I concur.
SID: In other words, the presence of God was so strong on him, totally healed, by the way obviously.
BILLY: When I got up, she said, “Get that patch off your eye.” I didn’t even realize that my legs were not paralyzed and I could move my leg. I didn’t even realize that the pain was gone. I was so used to being that way. And she said, “Get that patch off your eye.” I said, “Oh no, no.” And she said, “Get that patch off of your eye or I’m taking it off your eye.”
SID: She had, we Jewish people have a word. It’s called chutzpah, nerve. That woman had chutzpah.
BILLY: Yeah, yeah. So I picked the patch up. I didn’t take it off. I picked it up and my eye had straightened back out again. And of course then the cancer was completely gone and I had gone back for tests.
SID: But what’s so amazing to me, Billy, it is the presence of healing was so strong on him that if you could get under that fountain of healing. And I believe when you come back Billy is gonna pray for you and I believe that that fountain is, have you seen many people with cancer healed that you’ve prayed for?
BILLY: Many, many, many, many, many.
SID: And guess what? God’s not limited to cancer. We’ll be right back after this word.
