Sid Roth

SID: I’ve got two parts of me. One part, is interested in the visible world. The other part is God’s blessed me, I’ve a very logical brain. So I want from a logical viewpoint, what’s the first thing we have to do to get a divine restraining order?

FRANCIS: The first thing we have to do, Sid, to get a divine restraining order from the righteous judge, is to repent. Absolutely, to repent.
SID: I don’t even hear that word anymore.

FRANCIS: Well listen, there are people now are teaching, who are saying that under grace, we don’t have to repent. I think, that’s really the morning strategy, to rob our authority from coming before the court of heaven. Because, Sid, the word repentance, simply means to be in right standing. It literally means to turn back, and come into alignment with the governing authority.

How can we come before God, asking him to restrain the devil when we are not restrained?

FRANCIS: That’s illegal, right? The devil can argue, against us in the court of heaven and say, “Lord, why would they restrain me? Why would they come in to restrain me, when they won’t listen to you?”

So repentance, allows us to come before God and say, “God, as I come to ask for something I really need for you to do for me, Lord, I realize, that there are areas where I have broken your word, where I have not walked like you, and thank God the blood of Jesus was shed for just things like that.” You want to be in a right place when you’re asking, there is nothing in the court, where the enemy can contest, what you are trying to request from the court.

SID: Tell me about the woman in your church, that needed a divine restraining order.

FRANCIS: Oh, my church is very multiracial. This is one of my Caucasian, members. She came to my office, on a Sunday morning, Sid, the worship was going, I could hear in the background, but she wanted to see me. Her eyes were bloodshot, and I realized, I said, “Oh, well what happened to you?” She said, “I’ve been crying all night.” She said to me, “I can’t live like this.” And then just, tears began to come out.

And then she said, “Well, I used to have a good marriage until one day I found my husband was cheating, in our matrimonial bed, with a woman half of his age. Devastated me. He ran out with this woman.” She says, “But, I was getting healed from it, but the problem is, we’ve got two children together,” and she says, “Dr. Myles, every time he comes to pick the children so he can spend time with them, he comes with the woman, that broke my marriage. It’s like flaunting it in my face. And then, sometimes he’s very verbally abusive to me, in front of the girl, that destroyed my marriage.”

And she cries, “I’m a child of God. I can’t be treated like this, I’m not trash. God help me.” I could see her, what the point of breaking down, and in that moment the Holy spirit said to her, “Ask her, tell her to ask her, does she want a restraining order.”

So I said to her, I say, “Sister, do you want a restraining order?” She thought, I’m talking about going to natural courts. She reacts, she says, “No, I would like to get one, but I don’t have the money, to take longer to go through, I don’t have an attorney.” I said, “I’m not talking about natural restraining orders. He says, “As you are talking to me, your heavenly father has heard your cry, and is asking me, “Do you want me, to bring you before him, to get the divine restraining order against this man’s behavior?”

She said, “You mean God issues restraining orders?” I said, “Of course. He’s the righteous judge. He’s the first judge.” She said, “Let’s do it.” So I said, “What do you want?” She said, “I want him to stop insulting me.” She said, “I want him to stop coming to collect the children with this woman who broke our marriage. And thirdly, the kids have been begging, to go and see my grandparents, who live in another state. Every time I beg him, to take my children there, he’s promised me, he’ll go to the Phoenix police department, and, file, kidnapping charges. So, the kids can’t even go and see their grandparents. I need those three things.”

So we went before the court of heaven, and we asked for a restraining order against this man, in those areas. Sid, it’s less than 48 hours. The man calls her, and is crying on the phone. He says, “I do not know why I’ve treated you so miserably. You don’t deserve it… You didn’t break the covenant, I did.
I did.