It's Supernatural

Sid:  Well my guest is red hot for the Messiah; if he had only done what I see in his background I’d be in interested in interviewing him.  But he’s had an encounter, a heavenly experience that is going to revolutionize your walk with the Lord. His name Carlos Sarmiento, and Carlos you’ve had the privilege of working in ministry with Benny Hinn.  Just between you and me, and whoever’s listening to us, what is the most amazing miracle you saw in Benny Hinn’s ministry?

Carlos:  Well I mean that there’s many too consider, but I would say several of the miracles of people that were diagnosed with you know the worst stage of cancer. Giving up to death, and then all of a sudden to see right before your eyes that their color of their skin is changing and life is coming back to them. And pain leaving and to see that miracle take place in front of you to me is really impacting.  I would say miracles of cancer, and miracles of people that were paralyzed in wheelchairs for many many years and to see them actually come out of wheelchairs are miracles that you just cannot deny.

Sid: Now I have seen… I try to figure things out and I should know by now after all of these years you can’t figure things out. But I’ve heard a lot of people that receive miracles I hear them say a comment such as “I knew that if I would come here I would get healed.”  And now I know why they got healed, but have you seen people that were just dragged there and they got healed not having any faith?

Carlos:  You know from what I’ve seen I’ve seen God operate and heal in 2 ways.  Number 1 He heals because of people’s faith; and usually that’s sons of God, daughters of God that come because of their faith.  Then number 2 of sees miracles with the Lord would heal someone that had no faith at all and out of His mercy He would heal them. And when we look into that many of those people that were healed miraculously with no faith were usually unbelievers and they were a sign to that individual of the mercy of God to bring them to faith. And you would see many people accept Christ because of that miracle. So yes we’ve seen both.

Sid: Well I can see where God trained you step by step for what you’re doing today. But there was a key prophecy that got you headed in the right direction.  And it was Kim Clement prophesied over you; tell me about that.

Carlos:  Well the prophetic word that came through Kim Clement was that I was at a revival service or a group of conference here in Central Florida area. And someone told me that Prophet Kim Clement would be there. So I came and pretty much in a nutshell he had prophesied that there was somebody here in this service that was somehow connected to Indiana and through a process of elimination he said, “No, it’s not you, it’s not you and when he finally looked at me he said “It must be you.” So I raised my hand up and he said to me “Young man I want you to take 4 large steps towards this platform.” And he counted them 1, 2, 3, 4 and at the end of the 4^th step he said to me “Now stop.”  And he prophesied thus saith the Lord “The next step that you’re about to take into ministry will be the biggest and the largest step you will ever take.  This step will eventually lead you to operate at a high level of the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit where it will flow out of you like water.”  So that launched me into a different phase of ministry that we’re currently beginning to operate in right now.

Sid: But between the word and the total manifestation there’s something that goes on. Would you say that that prophetic word spurred you to push harder into things of the Spirit?

Carlos: Absolutely, I mean to me it’s kind of like what Paul told Timothy, he said “Meditate on these things, study these things that your progress may become evident to all.” And I think that’s one of the major keys with many people who have the potential and the gift to operate in the anointing of the Holy Spirit or the high levels.  Sometimes we take it for granted but I believe with me personally that pushed me even though I had been exposed to the supernatural ministry, but that pushed me to a higher level to believe God to contend. That’s the word, it’s to contend for God to operate and to work through you. And so through that prophetic word there’s no question that definitely it kind of catapulted me to want to want to see those things freshly operate in my life and to a higher level.

Sid: So, I hear a lot of people say “My hunger for more of God just got beyond what I could have satisfied.”  Was that going on with you?

Carlos:  Yes, there’s no question, the encounter that I had with the Lord kind of brought me back to my first love.  And you know I think the danger with ministry so much and we get hungry for the things of God and for the ministry of God verses God Himself as being the main ministry. And so what happened to me what I’d begin to find out is that the Lord is bringing me back to my main hunger which is to encounter Him intimately. And then from that hunger and that zeal the Lord will be able to birth everything else that He wants to manifest in such a way that really all the glory and all the honor would be going to Him.

Sid: Okay, I’m taking you to May 8, 2005. You’re sleeping; it’s about 4:00 AM in the morning what happened?

Carlos:  Well, I was awakened like you said 4:00 AM in the morning and the first thing I saw I saw myself suspended over my bed. And I could see my physical body laying there and I could see my wife laying beside me and I was definitely confused I didn’t know what was going on. All of the sudden I felt the awareness that this angel was actually holding me.  I felt like I was cradled sitting in between these 2 massive strong arms. And once I became aware that instantly we began to rise. I remember going through the roof of the house, thoughts were going through my mind. I must have died, actually prayed a prayer for my wife and my 5 children that God would comfort them and then in an instant. The moment I prayed that all earthly affections left me, the thought for my wife and my children were completely gone and the only way I could explain it was that I was flooded with this unusual joy. Because somehow my inner man I understood that I was about to go see Jesus.  I remember the angel rising and going through the clouds and finally going through the atmosphere and then the next thing I know I find myself in this big open kind of a room. I didn’t see any walls, I didn’t see any buildings I just in this big open expansive place. And in the natural I’m colorblind but I could see these incredible colors, they were all before me.  The reminded me of like the weather map; you could see the jet stream and the air flowing and moving. These colors were actually breathing and I had no idea of what that meant. And I have a little bit more understanding now, but any way the colors were actually breathing like there was life. I could actually tell the difference between the blues and the greens and the reds.  Which I cannot do in the natural today but at that moment I could.

Sid: So everything, every sense is not just perfect it’s way beyond the best sight and smell and hearing on planet earth, is that fair to say?

Carlos:  I would say that is perfect way of saying it absolutely; and that was exactly how I felt completely.

Sid: Okay, so you’re up there you’re dazzled; you don’t have a pain, a problem, a worry. You’re flooded with the love of God, what happened next?

Carlos:  I’m flooded with this joy you know because I’m seeing all of these colors like there was life in them. And all of a sudden the scene changed again.  This time I’m in another open room. Again no walls, no buildings, but I heard a voice that said “You’ve been granted to stand here and listen.” And when I heard that I saw Jesus and the Father and it was standing like at an angle talking to one another. And knowing that I was granted permission I just stand there and listened. And they talked about the coming things to the Body of Christ, they talked about the coming move to the Body of Christ. They talked about the difficult hour that the earth was about to go through. But they also talked about the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit that the Church was yet to experience.  And that the earth would encounter through the cooperation and partnership of the Holy Spirit with the Church.  And so through that experience I remember thinking “This is really going to happen and I may see it in my own day.”  So I’m listing to this conversation about the urgency of the end-times, the importance of being ready and being prepared. The importance of being a friend of the Holy Spirit and being connected with the Holy Spirit in order for these things to take place. And one of the last things that I remember hearing in their conversation was when the Father said to Jesus “It’s time Son, go get Your Bride.”  And you know now….

Sid: Well, that tells me that things are speeding up I’ll tell you.  (Laughing)

Carlos:  That’s exactly how I took it.

Sid: I’ll tell you what some of the things that you’ve experienced I can’t wait to get into them later on in this week.  But you have put together based on this experience your brand new book “Encounter By God” and your 5 CD set “That we may work the works of God,” and the workbook for the 5 CDs.  Here’s what I’m getting as I’m digesting your material.  America is moving with rollercoaster speed towards such moral decline that  America’s only chance, or the world’s only chance is to hear God and pray in cooperation with God’s Spirit so that things will change for the better.  But if this doesn’t occur and things are as bad as they have appear they’re going to be, if people can’t hear God for themselves, can’t cooperate in prayer with the Holy Spirit. You have this wonderful 5 CD set that takes people step by step on how all of the gifts of the Spirit and how you can operate in them.  But then the book “Encountered by God” will prepare people for what’s coming.