Fall Update!!

"Somebody call the police because signs and wonders are following me."

Yes, I did think that quote was clever. I believe I first said that after a recent miracle outbreak somewhere. Hello friends from all over the world!!  Hope all is extraordinary in your life. It has been a great season for me. Summer has been full of catching up with friends, relaxing, and some ministry trips. I recently got back from an incredible trip to Panama. I was personally blown away by God in worship and had some life changing encounters with the Lord. Also I  had a blast with our team there and the new friends I met. Panama is such a hungry nation, so ripe for revival. We did a healing conference with about 400 attendees. Some of the miracles were 10 salvations, a 50 year old women who was deaf in one ear from birth was totally healed, sciatic pain healed in a women who no longer needs her medication, a guy with Parkinson's Disease had noticeable differences, a man with arthritis pain and crutches for seven years free to walk again!!,  a 17 year old girl healed of scoliosis, and a man free of years of drug addiction. God is so good we couldn't exaggerate His Goodness if we tried!



Allyssa healed of scoliosis

I am continuing to enjoy Bethel and my involvement here. I feel so honored and excited to be a part of this community. Wow. I have also been in a season of getting back into painting in my free time, mainly watercolors for now. As well as I just received a scholarship to do an online Bible school that just started called Welton Academy. It is basically a Bible school training in Kingdom Doctrine and honestly an answer to my prayers because I have been wanting to do something like that for awhile.

I am continuing to lead trips for Bethel as well as I am taking 20 students on a mission trip to Colombia in March. I couldn't be more excited! Last year on this trip they saw an entire high school saved and thousands of miracles. I also have some other great trips coming up, one I am very excited about is I will be back in home home state Ohio in November! Please keep these in your prayers.

Team Panama

As many of you know I have just been traveling and doing ministry full time. I have been trusting God fully for finances and it has been so cool to see him show up like he always does. To be honest  this last season of my life with finances was pretty tight but I know I am exactly where I am suppose to be, doing what I am suppose to be doing. However, I felt like I needed to be humble and give people an opportunity to give into my life if they wanted. To give you a reference my living expenses are around $800 a month. If you would like to financially sew into my life you can do so in two ways one is through PayPal you can give to naomigracewest@yahoo.com or tax deductible via checks through The Lewis House (put Naomi West in the memo).

The Lewis House
4130 Lewis Ave
Toledo, Ohio 43612

It is an honor to have you in my life and to together see God's beautiful Kingdom expand on the earth. Together we get to plunder hell, populate heaven, and see Jesus get His full reward.
If you have any prayer requests or want to connect feel free to email me.
Blessings and Increase on you and your family. Don't forget that with God all things are possible!

Naomi West
Apprentice Minister
Bethel Activation Ministries, B.A.M
naomi.west@team.ibethel.org 


These days, Life is good.

Hello. Hello. You are so dear to me all my family and friends all over the planet. So if you are wondering what is going on in my life, or what I have been up to? Allow me to tell you.

I have been enjoying life fully. God has been really good to me as always and I have been having a lot of fun. Since September I have made a decision to grow my skills in pastoring, mentoring, coaching, and developing others. I have been mentoring some girls in Katrina Stevenson's revival group at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. Which has been very fun and personally eye opening to discover something else I love doing! Being a part of peoples processes, seeing them succeed, celebrating their breakthroughs, and challenging them.

Also I have been enjoying many of my incredible friendships at Bethel as well as I have been learning so much from our itinerate traveling group BAM. BAM is a group of Bethel Itinerates that travel the world representing Bethel and who are in relationship with the fathers and mothers of Bethel.

I have been traveling the world itinerately by invitation for the past three years the first year with Bethel leaders and the last two as the speaker/leader of most trips I go on. So far in 2013 I have been to Mexico, Wisconsin, Chicago, Indiana, Oregon, Washington, all over California, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Canada, and Nebraska. God has been doing many amazing things from seeing marriages restored, entire congregations physically healed, to many salvations. Come on JESUS! I have also really enjoyed the second year Bethel students and friends I have been having on my trips as my ministry team. I have really been enjoying seeing God show up both in the streets and in the church. It has even been awesome all the stuff I am learning through Holy Spirit and my mentors in preaching and seeing God be God! It is an honor to serve God and be a part of what He is doing on the planet!

You may know that I was struggling with adrenal fatigue for a year and a half. I want you to know I am feeling much better. Thank you GOD! So much of my strength and energy has returned.

I want to thank all of you for the incredible role you play in my life. Thank you for your friendship, prayers, and believing in my life. You have been an incredible blessing to me. Thank you for being you.

Blessings to you,

Naomi West

naomigracewest@yahoo.com

The Theology of Healing

Often I am asked to share on the theology of healing. Here is a teaching I did in Madrid on what Jesus paid for. If you are wondering if Jesus paid for all to be healed wonder no more! Listen to this. It is in english and spanish.

Remembering what God has done!

Today I found myself at the prayer chapel at Bethel which is super unordinary for me. Usually my times in the Presence are spent in my room or closet. However today I found myself in the prayer chapel. I found myself picking up a three ring binder that sits on the prophetic art and intercession table titled "Bethel's Prophetic Journey." I read lots of encouraging things but the thing I read that rocked me to the core was written by Graham Cooke in 2008. Here is the word!

Son the long years of wondering and praying about hearings and miracles and you have sometimes almost found yourself daydreaming, where the whole day you would just envision people getting healed and what the church would be like in revival. And you would just sit there and get lost in the idea of people getting healed and demons fleeing. Then you would jump and think " what am I doing" and feel guilty because you missed half a day. And you couldn't seem to stop yourself from doing it. And the Lord says " that was me I encouraged you to daydream. I was dropping that stuff in your spirit." those things you've long to see you will live to see. And you will participate in those things I will take you across the nation and from nation to nation.


Wow and we have so seen that begin to come to pass. What are you dreaming about today.. The things you are dreaming of today with God is the land you will be living in tomorrow.. Keep dreaming, envisioning, and enjoying His Presence and never forget what He has done!

Miracles in Madison.

Do you love incredible friends, world renowened pizza, beautiful heart felt worship, churches being transformed, creative miracles, and reivival!?
Then you should of been on my trip to Madison, Wisconsin!
Then Again maybe you were there.

God is doing Beautiful, wonderful things in Madison!!

My team and I did a youth service, three leadership meetings, a prophetic teaching time, an evangelism activation where we took people in the church out in the community to love on people, a Friday night service where we activated the church in a supernatural lifestyle and their Sunday morning service!!

The church we went to was a really fun innercity church of about 400 people. During youth group there was like 70 young people there. While we were speaking at first it appeared none of them were paying attention. As we prophecied over them they would chat with friends or stare at the floor but we chose not to be discourage, then we told them about God's presence and all of them started to feel warmth or tingling on their hands. Next 12 youth responded to wanting to be free from addictions.At least 20-30 young people gave their hearts to Jesus and invited Holy Spirit to be their best friend! COME ON!

Next I asked them who wanted to see God do a miracle through them! Almost all of them raised their hands. I said I need ten volunteers so how about ten people come up.. they rushed the stage and over half of them came up! I told them what a word of knowledge was and we went down the line. They gave words of knowledge and many miracles broke out through their hands or without anyone praying!!

Here are a few of the miracles!
Vertebrae aligned after 14 years no longer crocked neck.
Finger girl jammed knuckle hurt quick prayer by guy w word of knowledge all pain gone.
A Tumor the size of five inches by two inches totally dissolved along with a few other cysts!

Kid with cataracts thick glasses couldn't see exit sign now everything clearly
Giggling heat presence kids flipping out never felt him so strongly
12 legs grew out  first or six taller
12 backs better
A kid first time in church


Cleft pallet hole in roof of mouth when she talked you could hear wind, Cleft hole in her mouth is smaller... Crazy..

A girl who didn't know God had an encounter where Jesus said your eyes are beautiful.She couldn't move her eyes to see only head. she began to freely move her left eye she couldn't move it since birth.

Guy hadn't slept more than 4 hours in eight years slept.. 12 hours...

Hammer toes straightened out, his shoes fit and this problem had been there his whole life.

Women with arm condition five years lifted a bag first time since surgery.

Kk who didn't know if God was real he used her to grow out legs

Woman couldn't breathe in sleep, breathed first time 15 years through her nose.

Thank you God for all the miracles you did in Wisconsin! If you need a miracle in your body just start testing that body part out!!

Black Friday...love explosion!!!

Hope your Black Friday was grand and filled with light and joy from Holy Spirit in whatever you were doing and 

wherever you were!

Naomi and I hit the streets in down town Redding and we meet so amazing people who encountered Jesus and His grace.

The first two people we meet were two homeless men. One guys name was choice and just hanging out. We just loved and encouraged them.

Moses and Henry: Moses was a younger man from Sudan Africa who had just moved to Redding. I asked Moses if he had ever felt the presence of God before and he responded, “Not until now” as in until we had walked up to him. We kept prophesying God’s heart  and dreams for his life (not even very specific) but he was completely amazed and blown away that people would stop and talk and encourage him.  We continued talking to them for a while and he communicated that he did not like Christians and was shocked that we were Christians. The point I want to get across was that we didn’t even give specific words of knowledge but he was rocked by God and encountered Jesus in a loving way for maybe the first time in his life. In closing, we finally asked both of them to hold out their hands and ask Holy Spirit to come. They both encountered Jesus and we asked Jesus to reveal himself to Jesus. So if you want please pray for Moses.

Deb and Michael: this couple was amazing! As Naomi and I were talking with Moses and Henry we saw Deb singing out of a Bible to a few other homeless people. As we were getting to know them better we learned that they both knew Jesus and were married for only a week! They had an shocking 17 year difference between and made a wonderful mix:-) We asked if they wanted to feel the presence of God and they both asked Holy Spirit to fill them and show up in their life. It looked like Deb started to manifest and she said that she felt a “jolt of electricity” fill her body.

Naomi and I both prayed for their knees and then Deb’s hearing loss. We prayed: at first she couldn’t hear me from 10 feet away. The next time we prayed I stood 25 feet away and she could hear me. Also Deb had a lot of mental illnesses like Schizophrenia and both Naomi and I got a word of knowledge about Jesus wanting to heal mental/ brain issues. And we released that and the peace over her and her entire countenance changed. Also we prophesied over their dreams and they shared how they want to do singing and acting for people while preaching the love of Jesus. Yay!

Written by: the glorious Julianne Wood :)




And then I finished my day with some quality time at Black Bear Diner with Les, Audrey, Dave, and Laurel!!


Also I took my California Food Handling test for work oh what joy ;) Naomi!

Hallway Healing POP!

Last Saturday at the Healing Rooms where I intern..

The encounter room was getting pretty crowded so they announced that us interns would be taking all those who had deafness or hearing loss in the hallways and their ears would be open.
In the first wave twenty-one people responded and all of them to my knowledge received breakthrough (of some level.)

There was this cute older woman who had 10% hearing in one ear and 30% in the other she said. From Directly behind her should could not make out what I was saying. My normal talking voice, which is quite loud ;)... the presence of God was released and over a couple of minutes she was able to repeat what I was saying without looking at me from TWENTY feet away in a loud hallway!

There was in the second wave of people a woman who's ear canal had collapsed. She was unable to put a Q-tip in her ear.. she was prayed for for a couple seconds and she heard a popping in that ear. Then she tried to put her finger in it and she could a little bit and then she compared it to her other ear.. then something changed in her ear again and both were the same! WOW!
Also a guy who couldn't differentiate noises in a crowd was now able to hear what was being said when multiple people were talking, ringing in the ears left a few people, and hearing was restored..

Jesus just loves to touch peoples lives, even in hallways ;)

Nebraska...oh man!!!

Oh MAN!!!

I just recently got back from a super awesome ministry trip to Nebraska.
I am going to delight you in some highlights.
I was in Grand Island and Kearney.


Let me tell you about the lady bugs..wow!
I was on a treasure hunt with eight woman from the church and we decided to stop at the hospital.
On our way back to the church it wasn't on our treasure maps....BUT..

Releasing God's Wonderful Presence in a hospital is just a good idea.
On our way in we saw over one thousand lady bugs! CRAZY!
Not that I counted.. but that's what it seemed like.

Also a girl on our team (from RDD) had seen I think it was fifteen lady bugs in her room.
Prophetically lady bugs are symbolic for the anointing
and are defenders of the harvest.
We later as a Bethel team were talking about all this when the pastor of the church said he was recently
given a prophetic word by a French prophet he knows that they would clear out their hospital!!

This was good enough for us!!
We later filled the church bus with our team to head to the hospital to see what God would do in about an hour!!

We saw God do some awesome things.
But not really what you would expect sending 20 crazy revivalists into a hospital.

BUT THEN....3 DAYS LATER...
One of our team members got a phone call saying..Hunter a little boy who was pretty sick was miraculously discharged!!
Who they had met and prayed for
(I can't remember what was wrong with him.)
ALONG WITH>>>>>>>>>>>>>
FIFTY PERCENTof the hospital....
ALSO DISCHARGED!!

OH MY GOD!!
they also weren't seeing many people come into the ER.
and actually were sending hospital staff home
BECAUSE.. they had nothing to DO!!SAY WHAT...!?!?!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!! 






(pictured: Naomi (me) and Holly on bus in Nebraska)

Powerfully Processing Disappointment.

This blog is a bit different than what I usually write about :)
I am actually going to write about how I deal with disappointment.

I live in two worlds at once.
I live knowing that Jesus paid the price absolutely for all to be healed. I know it is absolutely His will and heart to heal all through us His church. While that is  always my expectation that the one in front of me would receive full healing, this isn't always my experience.
It is so crazy to live in this culture where left and right we are hearing amazing testimonies about what God is doing all over the earth. I think in one week I probably hear more good news than I ever did in the  fifteen years before I knew Jesus!
 I celebrate those who are healed and receive any measure of healing in their bodies; I am also at the same time very aware that everyone that gets prayed for isn't healed.

You might wonder what do you do with that? How do you process that?


I have had situations in my life such as my mom dying at 42 from cancer, friend's children dying, and just this week one of my friends dying from cancer. All of these situations all obviously were hard for me and you have also probably had things like this in your life as well, These types of situations lead me to questions and a DEEP hunger to look more like Jesus. Allow me to explain the process.

How do we live on the edge of breakthrough? how do we press in for more? How do we handle when we pray for people and many many many get well and yet some die? These are questions I have had to ask myself and the Lord lately.

1. Let's say we expect something to happen and it doesn't the way we think it should, whether it be healing finances ect.  When someone isn't healed His nature is never on trial. He still purchaced healing and salvation for all. We first and foremost have a choice to make.. To believe that God is good, no matter what. That it is ALWAYS His heart to redeem His people from all works of the devil, death, sickness, sin, poverty, whatever. When we choose to believe He is who He says He is it puts us in a position to be victorious when we are processing our pain.

2. Be honest with God- process how you feel. Be humble and real with God He can handle it. However as you are real with Him, be honoring towards Him, keeping in mind that He is a good Father! Allow Him to come into your heart and love on any places of pain, discouragement, disappointment, or fear. Choose to not be angry at God, because that leads to disappointment and when we are disappointed with God that leads to a skewed perception of Him and who He truly is and that left untreated grows into unbelief. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." And unbelief leads us into powerlessness... and powerlessness just breeds disappointment.

3. When we choose to believe He is good.To choose to not be disappointed in God.  We next have another choice to make to not give up. To get in the secret place and cry out for more. Our realization that we don't currently measure up to the life of Jesus was meant to lead us to hunger for more and ultimately to looking like Jesus in every area of our lives and bringing heaven to earth in every sphere of society. Our realization that we must have more should lead us to dreaming, imagining, and stepping out, it was never meant to cause us to feel inadequate or powerless!!


Hunger always leads us to relationship and relationship with Him will always lead us to more love, power, and confidence in Him. This very thing should actually lead us to more of His power flowing through our lives and into the world around us!

Keep Dreaming!

The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of  His Christ; and  He will reign forever and ever.”

Update letter: Travel and support.

Update:

Friends and family here is an update about what I have been up to, testimonies, and travel.

I have been back in Redding for three weeks now:

*my entire tuition for my internship was paid off! Yay God!!!
*I got rehired as a server at Red Lobster (I am working around 16 hours per week)
*I moved into my new beautiful BRIGHT green four bedroom house with my awesome 5 roomies.

* I have had a lot of free time to get in the presence, read, journal soak, and jog

*I have been enjoying the Bible like never before 

*I have been meeting with the healing room leadership team and learning so much in our "healing room family."

*I have been learning so much and seeing God do so many wonderful things!

*I have been developing the healing rooms activation with other interns and my mentor Les Coombs, this is an outreach in the healing rooms where 100 students in the school of ministry join our healing rooms volunteers (650) and partner with us in seeing God heal, love, and restore. I have been helping bring in some new ideas and changes. We kick off the Activation Oct. 22nd.

One of many things God has done this week:

*I taught a class this week at the healing rooms for the first time called How to Steward Your Healing. The class is an hour long class, 40 minutes of teaching and 20 minutes of joy and impartation. During the class a man testified of being healed of 27 years of intense continual pain and neuropathy. due to a chemical burn accident he had at work 27 years ago! He said he always felt like a 90 year old man and for the first time felt normal. He received joy and his wife said, "My husband is a new man." He encountered the Lord during the class and after said to me, "Before I came into the class I wasn't sure if my new healing would disappear, It was incredible to see this man not only healed but dramatically experience God's love and leave with a new mindset!

*In the Healing Rooms this week one person was healed of Esophageal cancer and another woman ovarian! 

Travel:

This year I have been invited on ministry trips where I travel with leaders in the healing rooms and do healing conferences. I am sure on each trip my role will vary but my roles look like, activating churches, empowering students, bringing joy, preaching, teaching, doing evangelism, and seeing God do the impossible where ever we go. 

This next month I am going to Vancouver Canada with Les Coombs and interns, also I am going to Nebraska with one of my personal heroes Joaquin Evans. I am also invited in November to go to England with Joaquin.

Please prayerful consider sewing into these trips, all gifts are tax deductible 100% of your gift will go towards my travel and will  definitely change those cities and nations. 
To Give Online:

https://www.ibssm.org/a/donate/secure-form?student_id=208333&target=travel

To Give by mail:

The Lewis House

4130 Lewis Ave. 

Toledo, Ohio 43612

make sure you put my name in the memo of your check.

To keep in touch/testimonies:

my blog: http://extravagantbliss.blogspot.com

naomigracewest@yahoo.com

Thank you!! 

I want to thank each and every one of you for being my friends and partnering in what God is doing in my life! I want to thank you for believing in me, your hugs, prayers, and all of your support. I am daily reminded of your love and that none of this would be possible without you. God is a God of the impossible and a God who fulfills dreams. Thank you! 

My prayer for you is that you would be blessed beyond what you could ever ask, think, or imagine!
May Your hunger lead you into places in God's presence and realities in His Word that you never knew existed!

With love from California,

Naomi Grace West

For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield. Psalm 5: 12(NKJV)

I am shocked..dreams do come true!

So tomorrow I am speaking at a little ladies' lunch at one of my favorite womens' house and when I was saving a document for tommorow I noticed I had three word docs titled dreams.
My curiosity got to me and I explored.. them.. ALL..
Because that's how i roll...
To save the details 5 out of 300 of my life dreams 5 out of 5 being entirely impossible happened the past 5 months!!
I also ran into my dream/goals list for second year BSSM.. I'll post them below
many of them happened!



X-means it happened
XXXX-multiple means I am super excited about it & it happened!
and if it's blank that means it is about to..soon!


XXXX-crippled bodies made well time and time again
-see someone raised from death
X-a new confidence in my beauty
XXXX-go out to love people at least twice a week
X-be intentional in grocery stores driving ect to love on people
X-dance on stage during worship
-lose 10 pounds (so far 8.5)
XXXX-CUBA!!!!!!
-new eyes form
XXXXX-limbs grow out...YESSSSS!!!
-teeth appear through prayer
XXX-muscles form
XXXXX-open air and see salvations
XX-see 20 people saved through personal interactions (haha looking back God WAY exceeded this)
X-blog, write poems or paint at least 3-4 times a week
-open air a large crowd 50+
X-go on a wonderful date; yes a date (ugh, wonderful may or may not be the word.)
x my income increase
xx deep life long connections continue and even become more apparent
XX-meet with Les for coffee three more times (I'm actually interning with him)
XXX-strong, consistent open connection with housemates
XX-that Love Hutt would continue beyond this year (my house, oh and it did..)
-slam once
XXXX-eat dinner with someone I REALLY admire (def, lots)
xxx host a meal for friends (which was important to me because I was so busy)
-xsoak  and worship with friends regularly
-treasure hunt or such regularly with housemates
-xx go on a treasure hunt with children
I wrote this in October and viewed it just a few times.. thanks Holy Spirit for all you did!

I encourage you to write down your goals because at least half of these I didn't really even acknowledge the process of my breakthrough before reading this...

You may remember my earlier blog about dreams and dreaming with God.. http://extravagantbliss.blogspot.com/2010/11/invitation-to-dream.html

Invitation to creative miracles, craziest miracle I've seen.

"What you hunger for exists."

Yesterday at the healing rooms I was doing Skype. (people call in over the computer, you pray with them for healing ect. via webcam)

After my first call nobody was calling in, so I got bored or maybe just adventurous and decided to call someone who I haden se called earlier, but her call was missed
Turns out she is a beautiful college age girl who was born with a deformed arm. she showed me her arm which the right one was twice as thin in the forearm and clearly not as long, with stubs for fingers and barely no palm at all. Neither parts of her arm were as long as the other one.
She told me for the last year creative miracles have been taking place in her arm slowly, such as it has been getting longer.

Over  the webcam I asked the Holy Spirit to come into her room. She said she felt a physical pulling of her arm. We giggled and laughed. She said she saw an angel standing over her shoulder and felt her shoulder go into place. Then she messured her arm against her other arm and it was longer and both her elbows matched up for the FIRST TIME EVER!!!! Next I watched her forearm grow out about an inch and slowly 'fatten' up until it was as thick/wide as her other. I seen this with my eyes over skype! Which it was twice as small!! Then she asked if I would pray for her palm which was only maybe half an inch to an inch in size this then grew in size at least an inch or two and 'fattened' up as well. To about the same size as her other, this was still a different shape though. We continued to giggle, laugh, and celebrate what God was doing! We both stared at each other over skype saying "OH GOD!" with childlike wonder, awe, and thanksgiving, marveling at how awesome, beautiful, and creative our God is. After this point we had been skyping for about 15 minutes and she said she was going to go and continue worshiping believing for the full restoration of her palm and fingers. I beleve at one point she said she could litterally feel where her fingers would grow as if they were there!

OH MY GOD IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He truely creates and restores all things!

It is in His heart that none would suffer but all would know Him.
He is so incredibly GOOD and HAPPY! <3

The thing is I almost didn't even call this girl but when I read and saw she needed a creative miracle for her shorter deformed arm I stopped and thought about how in my personal time with God I have been telling Him I wanted to see breakthrough in creative miracles after praying for quite a bit and no breakthrough of people without eyes, legs, or arms. When I told Him I wanted breaththrough it was one of those things where you feel as if, I am so hungry for this if I don't have/see this I could die, type of hungers. That I wanted creative miracles to be normal for me and the church. I have never seen anything like this before. Maybe you have that is AWESOME!! But this miracle did something deep inside of me that I can't explain.

 I know that everytime God shows me something new it's an invitation to a new realm of normal. Now that I have seen God do one it's an invitation that through my life this creative nature of God will be displayed. I/we no longer have any right to live in an inferior revelation of His ability to create and display His beautiful Kingdom on the earth.

Crazy Good NEWS!!!!!

"If this is Christianity this should be on the news!"-A man who regave his life to God and was overwhelmed with how good the Good News really was.

I just got back from a ministry trip with some friends Jason Chin, Ben Church, Paul Rapley, and Asaph Cueto. Baby it was bangin'! We started off in San Fran staying at an amazing house and going to a Benny Hinn Confrence. We decided to pray for people who were waiting in line. So we started calling out words of knowledge and loving on people. Jesus healed 50+ people in line such as a woman who had intense non stop back and shoulder tension at a level 8 from an acident 19 years ago, all gone!! A few people in line gave their lives to Jesus and were filled with joy! It was fun activating the people in line to pray for each other. They were rocked some of them had never seen a miracle in their life and were growing out legs and seeing pain leave bodies. It was fun!! The people we stayed with were so amazingly generous they had an awesome resturant called Val's Burger. They specialize in shakes, steaks, and burgers and hooked us up with some amazing free meals. Check it out next time your in San Fran it is EPIC and the owners are absolutely precious!

Next we drove down near Riverside Ca. it's about an 11 hour drive from Redding. We went to a hispanic youth group to hold a firestorm. (During these weekends, teams activate others in praying for the sick, giving words of knowledge for healing, doing prophetic art and participating in treasure hunting.) There was about 120 people probably there. It was so much fun!! The young people were so excited and incredibly hungry for God. We released words of knowledge at first and had the kids who didn't stand up for those ailments release their shadows over the other kids body parts and see them get healed.  Through that their was around 40+ healings without even praying. A boy who's whole body was sore from running and working out and who's knee was messed up for more than a week was healed without him even saying anything. Which was cool because he admitted he was skeptical and didn't think God would heal someone. We lead the kids in a soaking encounter in God's presence; Some smelt flowers, others saw visions of Jesus's eyess, one girl had some inner healing as the father held her she said she never felt anything like that, some felt loved, some experienced heat or winds, power or electricity go through their bodies. They encountered God in many new ways. As you read this hold out your hands palm up and feel God's heavy presence. WOW!

Many of these kids had never had those type of encounters with God, prophecied, or prayed for the sick. We had a little bit of training. Then we took them on a treasure hunt all 120 of them into their city to love on people. My team was so full of joy, compassion, and anticipation. We saw God touch many people at the mall it was so fun to see my team get excited and just go for it. They saw God take pain out of hips, arms, shoulders, the list goes on. They were so excited by how easy it was to see God show up. Another team met a woman with polo who was in a wheelchair she couldn't walk and had polo since she was 2. I believe this woman was in her 50s. Her back pain was in a constant 10 level pain, her left leg was paralysed and she didn't have any feeling in it. They prayed all the pain left her back AND she had feeling in the bottom of her foot again. They then noticed one of her legs was shorter than the other. They grew out her leg and asked her if she wanted to try and stand. Before they met her she couldn't do that. Well she got up with the assistance of the youth and was able to take some steps with help and move her foot 12''! Which she couldn't do before. COME ON JESUS!!!!! So good! Also one of the boys jokingly and mockingly put his hand on another youth's shoulder and said deltoid be healed in Jesus name. The other boy said, "Hey I have a problum with my deltoid!" He tested it out and it was completely healed!COMPLETELY HEALED ON ACCIDENT! HA! Healing is way easier than we think. Bam! All of these youth were amazing! They took so much risk! Sometimes we instantly see God show up and sometimes we don't but we celebrate love and risk! and we know God is good and it is impossible for us to pray and nothing happen. :D The pastor and his family blessed us so much I felt so at home. It was absolutely insane!

The next day we went to a Church called Good News. It was the most drunken whacked out church I have ever been to. Our team spoke out of a mega phone. I rapped over the pastor in front of the congregation that was a lot of fun! I've never done that before! But when your drunk, you'll do anything. Risk is easy when your drunk. There we saw people shadow healed as well and had a great drunken family time. During that service was when that guy came up to us and said "if this is Christianity this should be on the news." He was so shocked at how joyful Christians were. The Good News is scandaleously good!! BAM Shocka Laka. Drink in the goodness of God. He loves you a lot.

Also on this trip I had some crazy encounters and dreams...take it! <3

"The Jesus who condemns you is not the right one!" :))

Worship paintings (from this week)

These three paintings I painted on stage during worship at the Hem of His Garment Healing Conference in Powell Ohio. The first one releases a depth into God's presence to explore new places in His love. to drown in God's goodness and be captivated with who He is. The firey swirls release us to walk in our idenity as an open heaven. The second is an invitation to to grown and be planted in His presence. ect. The third was released through childlike worship I painted it with a 7 year old named Kate. YAY!! Please excuse photo quality these are off my camera phone :/

God loves conferences, airplanes, and the mall.

"There is NOTHING more dangerous than a happy Christian because there is no dangerous place when you show up."-Joaquin Evans

This week I went on a ministry trip with Joaquin and Chris Gore and many other amazing revivalists that changed my life forever. To a Hem of His Garment Healing Conference in Ohio my home state. UGHHHHH!! So many beautiful people God is doing INCREDIBLE things in OHIO!!This trip changed my life!! I had some crazy encounters in His presence this week (I wont get into that now though)  Here are some of the things God did this week to display His love:

Tail bones healed
new foot arches
headaches gone
40 years of car accident chronic pain gone
all symptoms of post polio gone (numbness, pain)
TMJ healed
constant blurred vision gone
eyesight floaters disappeared
ruptured discs healed
at least 6 deaf ears opening
woman without spit for 27 years now producing salva
allergies healed
tooth ache gone
toe pain gone
systs disolving from side
sense of smell coming back to around 7 people
diviated septums healed
MS healed
12 years back pain gone
legs grown out
tension leaving necks

On our flight back me and my new friend Ben were sitting together and we were starting to get to know the man sitting next to us his name was Alan. Me and Ben began to share stories of our week in Ohio with the guy sitting next to us with much joy and excitement. Stories about individuals who were touched by God we were sharing the love and joy of God. As we told them Alan was getting very excited and his eyes were getting watery. He was in awe and kept telling us to share more because he was soaking it all in he said. We then prophecied over Alan and told him he could walk in miracles just like us. Alan was shocked. As we talked to him we could see his perspective change and himself actually believe he could do it to. We prayed over him and asked him if he wanted to try to get a word of knowledge for healing over anyone in the plane and Alan went from totally not believing God could or would use him to practicing hearing God's voice in a plane.
Also one of my good friends from Toledo was at the conference and she was so moved and touched at it. that the next day she got some friends together to love on people at the mall. My friend typically doesn't see miracles of healing on a normal basis. At the mall her and her friends radically loved on people, it is all about love!! They saw a woman with a spinal injury get out of her wheel chair, a man with bad arthritis in his knees get healed, a girl with a crippled leg become straighter and all pain leave. They saw many people get touched by God's love and his thoughts towards them and a few people give their hearts to him.
God is so good. He lives inside of you and wants to get out to love the world around you. It is so easy to see God move just ask Him to highlight people to you and love on them. Smile, laugh, Take risks! BAM!

Keeping it real My Journey of Becoming "Normal"

So lately I have enjoyed eating healthier a diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and grace and some how that has brought about some thoughts on my past I just wanted to share :))

I have discovered that there is something very liberating in loving ourselves, when we love ourselves we no longer perform or compare ourselves. Secure people can't get rejected because inside of them is an unshakable acceptance: that they chose to agree with long before a situation that challenged their self love arose.

So here is a little bit on my journey of becoming healthy. Growing up in the Midwest probably one of the least healthiest places in America I thought little about health, if ever. I mean wasn't that a class I was forced to take in school every few years. Everyone in my family was either on drugs, ate REALLY unhealthy, or smoked so it never was modeled to me on what it might be like to care about myself. A mentality of what happens happens permeated our culture. I never thought about consequences. Most of the people in my life were very careless of their words and from a very young age I felt "fat, ugly, and unwanted." I remember these emotions determining and being my identity from the beginning of elementary school. I remember thinking no one could or would ever love me and I remember intentionally doing things to isolate myself. I think a lot of people say things about more negative sub cultures things like "they are only doing this or that for attention." For me I never believe that was the case I think it was a desperation to not have an opportunity to be loved because I really didn't want to discover my inadequacies deeper. I think drugs and bulimia/anorexia was my way of disqualifying myself.

Growing up I remember being very shy, insecure, fearful, and seldom feeling loved. Hating my body and mutilating it, whether that meant burning my flesh, taking pills, drugs, starving myself, ect. From the ages of 9-16 I remember purging at least 6 days a week and becoming so freaked out with the feeling of food in my belly. So freaked out even after I got saved just crying because I couldn't handle the feeling of food.

I think even in the deepest darkest places in my life I have always wanted hope even when I truly felt there was no way out. In this season I am celebrating four years after my decision to ditch eating disorders. It was a long battle a hard one. Two or three times between then and a  year and half ago I seriously thought of going into rehab for eating disorders. Even in places of feeling loved I had a hard time feeling like I had a voice in this area of my life.

I remember being in deep encounters with God and Him pouring His love all over me and telling me how beautiful I was and how He made me and still thinking "God it's cool you feel that way but I just can't."  remember God telling me how loved, wanted, special, valuable, gifted, lovely I was and writing down what He said about me and looking in the mirror saying it over myself and crying, Crying not in a good way. Crying in a this is SO HARD way. This hurts so bad way.. weeks went by and I remember in January 2008 catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror and just thinking wow i am so beautiful. I AM BEAUTIFUL.. I really can do this!! Something happened inside of me I didn't even notice. I had begun to actually start to love myself through agreeing with how God saw me. It was crazy. Confidence and security become a part of my life through who God said I was. It was so good, it was like what I believed finally agreed with what I did. I hadn't been participating in any ED stuff but finally my heart loved me!! I now look in the mirror and feel beautiful, secure loved and joyful because I see the father made me and He calls it GOOD! hahaha!!


We can't be ashamed or embarrassed to be confident to be proud of who God has made us to be. That He has made us to be wonderful and lovely!

There is something about just being around God in His presence all fears and insecurities melt off and we receive His mind and thoughts towards ourselves and the world our perspectives are shifted. It truely is indiscribible and only experience can truly do it justice. Let His love go deep experience a new level of freedom and security to be who you were made to be.

FACT

Before Bethel (a year and half ago) I consider going into rehab for bulimia and upon moving here was set free from tormenting hateful thoughts about myself

10% of college age women in America suffer from Bulimia

80% of 13 year olds have attempted to lose weight

God is so in love with you and with Him nothing is impossible.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Theresa