Sid Roth

SID: Well, Dr. Sizer, you were a Catholic priest for about a year, and all of a sudden you got desperate for something more.

FRANCIS: That night when I was in desperation, and hungry for more, He came into my room, and the presence of God entered enter my body, into my spirit, and flooded my soul. And I wept, and I wept, and I wept. I cried out loud that, “He has come. You’ve been here all this time, and I never knew it. I never really knew it like I know it now.” And I was saved.

SID: And then a few weeks later, he is a little nervous about something going on in the basement of his church, a little group of Catholic charismatics were meeting. So he decided he would investigate. A few weeks later, they’re all praying for him for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. What happened?

FRANCIS: Well, I did go to that meeting that night. They had asked me to give a little teaching. They said, “Let the Spirit lead you, Father.” I didn’t understand what they meant by let the Spirit lead you, but anyway, I did my best.

I recall saying, “Well, I’ll talk on creation because that sounds like a good topic.” They had me sit down. They didn’t know what I was going to talk about, but they had me sit down in a circle, and put all my books, my concordance, all the notes put aside, and they said, “Let’s pray.”

FRANCIS: The leader said, “I feel good tonight. Let’s sing about the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea. Let’s sing about creation.” Let’s sing about creation. Amen. Amen.

FRANCIS: Somebody read from the book of Genesis on creation. I said, “That’s interesting.” And the earth was without form –

FRANCIS: Then somebody read Psalm 104, the creation Psalm, and I really said, “This is very interesting.” He established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not totter forever and ever. Somebody must be here. Finally, a man opened up his Bible and he read from the passage from Galatians 1:15, which was my text for the night. I jumped up out of my seat. I said, “He is here! He is here! God is real!”

SID: So they laid hands on you to be immersed in the Holy Spirit. Tell me what happened.

FRANCIS: The greatest night of my life, Sid, greatest night of my life. Three people said a very short prayer, began to pray in tongues, and with that, I began to shake. My body shook and shook and shook and shook with power, and volts of electricity coursed through my body more and more and more. I couldn’t stop it. I got so scared, I yelled out, “Stop it! Stop it!” But it wouldn’t stop. It went on for a whole hour.

They got scared. They left me. They left me. There I was. I bounced onto the floor, and I went into convulsions, up and down, up and down, shaking with power. With that power came this liquid love of fire, went through my body, and through my body, volts of love, volts of power. And God had baptized me with the fire, the real baptism of fire.

That night, the Lord took me up to heaven, and when I went up to heaven, I was out of my body into another realm, into another place. And I heard for the first time, all my senses were amplified, and made greater and greater, and the music I heard with the choirs of angels was something I wanted to stay with. I wanted to stay there. But I heard the voice, “There’s work to be done.” And I was back in my body. Back in that church that night. When I laid in the bed the fire of God was on my hands, and I couldn’t wait to wake up the next day, and try it out on somebody.

SID: Now this is so amazing to me. In the Catholic Church, they confess to priests their sins. The children, when they would go, he was the most popular priest. Do you know why? They wanted to go to the priest that knew their sins before you told them. The children would actually fall over in the Spirit. Is that true?

FRANCIS: The children, Mother Superior brought the classroom over, and so I was praying with the first one, and in those days instead of going behind a screen, they would sit in a chair. I reached out my hand for the first one, and boom! Down she goes. I said, “What was that?” I picked her up. I put her over in the corner. I opened the door. I said, “Sister, send the next one in.” This went on for six times. Boom! You have to understand, I didn’t know what slaying in the spirit was, but I knew my hands were lethal.

SID: You know, I want to know the first miracle that occurred with those lethal hands.

FRANCIS: Yeah, I used to go to the hospital. I went into a woman who was left for death. She was 85 pounds, her name was Annie. She had fourth degree cancer, or fourth level stage cancer. She was on morphine, and I walked into that room, Sid, and it reeked of cancer. The spirit of cancer, I don’t know if the audience has ever smelled what it smells like. It was terrible. And she was dying. The spirit of death was there.

So I cursed the spirit of death in the name of Jesus. I cast out the spirit of death in the name of Jesus. I took Anne by the hand, and the power of God went out of my right hand into her body. Her eyes popped open like with life again, and I said, “Get up in the name of Jesus. Take a walk with the man of God.”

SID: And that’s how it started. Now, you think of something when children fall over from the power of God coming on them. Guess what happens when there is a seeing-eye dog. Same thing with the dog. We’ll be right back.