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GOD HEALS ADOPTED BABY INFECTED WITH HIV 

     When Rolyn Cadiz, got a call about
some parents who wanted to give up their
baby, she was wary.
“I said I didn’t want it,” she recalls.
Rolyn was 32 at the time, unmarried, and
very focused on her work along the Thai-
Burma border with refugee children.
She went to meet the parents. “Why are
you giving up this baby?” she asked.
“If we buy milk for her we won’t have
money for ourselves to live,” they told
her.
“Won’t you they insisted.

    Rolyn adopted the baby and gave her a
new name, Zoe Elise, which means ‘life
consecrated to God.’
Shortly after the adoption, she discovered
the dark-haired infant had an eye
infection. She decided she would take her
in for treatment.
The night before they went in, Rolyn
couldn’t sleep. “God made me intercede
for Zoe for the entire night. I couldn’t
stop praying for her,” she recalls.




The next day, Rolyn took Zoe to the
Christian Hospital. She discovered the eye
infection was more serious than
imagined. “The doctor told me if we
didn’t bring her here she could have
been blind.”
Then she was startled by even more
shocking news. Zoe tested positive for
HIV.
“That’s when I understood why God had
me intercede for her name.”
Rolyn received the test results with
surprising equanimity. “When I learned
the news I didn’t panic. I didn’t cry.”
Very early the next morning, while it was
still dark, the Lord awakened Rolyn once
more. Rolyn stared up toward heaven
and inquired of the Lord. What now God?
What do you want me to do?
Then God impressed on Rolyn’s heart:
Zoe’s life will be a living testimony to
those who don’t know me. And everyone
who comes to know her will know that I
am God.
Tears flooded Rolyn’s eyes. “Thank you
that she will fulfill her destiny,” she cried
to the Lord. “And thank you she is
healed. Thank you that what you
promised in her life will be done.”

   
     After Rolyn’s neighbors discovered that
Zoe was HIV positive, they refused to
babysit or help Rolyn in any way. Rolyn
carried Zoe everywhere, because no one
would watch her.
One of the neighbors asked if Rolyn
would start treating Zoe for HIV. “It
would take money for all this
medication,” Rolyn replied. “I have no
money, but I have the Word of God and
that’s more than enough for me.”
“Jesus even raised the dead,” she
continued. “If God said he will heal her,
He will heal her. I know He has a great
plan for her life.”
The neighbor turned away, shaking her
head, marveling at Rolyn’s faith.
When Zoe was about 18-months-old,
Rolyn took her back to the Christian Hospital to be re-tested for HIV-AIDS.
A nurse in the hallway called to Rolyn:
“Have you heard the results?”
A faint smile lit up Rolyn’s face. “I knew
in my heart she was already healed,” she
says. Then came the momentous news.
Zoe tested negative for HIV!
“I kept the positive and the negative
results,” she exults. “I know God healed
her. She had no medications except
healthy food.”
After Zoe turned four, the neighbors who
once shunned mother and daughter
slowly started to come around. “They saw
how happy she is. Zoe was always
smiling and waving to everybody. They
called her ‘happy baby.’”



“Since I came here God has provided
everything,” she marvels. “People wonder
why I’m smiling all the time. They see I
don’t worry. It’s God who gives me this
joy. All of this is from God.”