Our Guest Carlie Terradez
SID: Carlie, tell me about your daughter Hannah.
Yeah. When our daughter Hannah was born she had an autoimmune disease and it’s called Eosinophilic Enteropathy. it basically means that her body couldn’t take any protein and digest it.
SID: That’s sounds awful.
CARLIE: It was horrible and she was three years old, but she was the size of a nine-month-old baby. Her growth was severely stunted. All of her hair fell out. She wasn’t able to eat literally any food. She was allergic to absolutely everything. And so we had a feeding tube inserted directly, surgically into her stomach to pump her 23 hours a day with a synthetic formula. Not that it would cure her, but in the hope that it could prolong her life. And really at three years old she was sent home to die with a week to live.
So when Hannah was diagnosed, we thought, well, we know that God can heal, but does he want to? We had a misconception about the character and the nature of God, that God is really good and he only has good gifts and his will for us is always healing. And because we didn’t really have that foundation, we prayed for Hannah. We were pastoring at the time. We love God. We were fanatic about God, but we really didn’t understand that God is a God and the depths for which he loves us.
SID: But a CD or a tape got into your hands, that’s kind of, your brain went tilt, Oh, I see.
CARLIE: Yeah. It was a minister called Andrew Wommack. And we came across a cassette tape and it was perfect timing and my mom had had it in her desk drawer, in her chest of drawers. Moved her several times, but she pulled it out. We just said to her… We were hungry for the word of God. We were in a desperate situation and we said, “You know, do you have anything? Do you have anything at all that can encourage us? We need to get the word in us.” And she said, “Well, I’ve got this old drawer full of dusty tapes.” And she pulled this guy out. We didn’t know who he was. And that was the first time that we really heard the gospel of power.
SID: But the power of imagination came in because you saw something and held onto it tenaciously about your daughter.
CARLIE: She was three years old. She was laying in the hospital bed. Every day the doctors would come in and just have just a horrible report, always negative. And I just asked “Lord, I need to see it. I need to see what you’re saying about Hannah. I know it’s your will now for her to be well, but I need to see it. Give me a vision, give me a picture on the inside.” And the Lord was so gracious. He gave me three visions and two of those we’ve seen come to pass. But right away I saw her about four years old, so about six months in the future then riding a little red tricycle and the next one she was—
SID: When she was given a death sentence of two or three days.
CARLIE: She was in a vegetative state at this point. And the next picture was when she was five years old walking in a green school uniform through the school gates on her first day of school. And the third one and, was Ashley my husband walking her down the aisle on her wedding day.
SID: All right. You listened to this tape of Andrew Wommack, which builds your expectation. Then you found out he was speaking near you, in England and you took her to the meeting and he prayed for her.
CARLIE: Yeah, it was totally a God set up. We found out that he was only in the UK one day and it happened to be the very next day. So we got permission from the hospital to take Hannah out of the hospital and we went straight to the conference and Andrew Wommack laid hands on her and prayed for her and she was instantly healed. Two out of those three things we’ve seen.
SID: But I have to ask you this, when you saw those pictures, did you tenaciously hold onto them or did you say, I hope?
CARLIE: I meditated on those. That’s really what kept me going because when we have to learn to develop spiritual sight, we have to learn to see by faith. We walk by faith and not by sight and faith sees the unseen. The imagination is so important. It’s linked to hope and hope doesn’t disappoint. Biblical hope doesn’t disappoint. In fact, the word mind in the scriptures is also translated imagination. Our imagination. We need to start seeing ourselves the way God sees us. He sees us as the healer of the Lord. He sees us walking in health and in wholeness and in his power by his spirit. That’s how he sees us. And when we start to agree with his picture on the inside of us, it’s not going to be long before we start seeing on the outside because miracles start in the heart.
SID: When we return, Carlie will pray for you to flip the switch for your miracle. Be right back.
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