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.

Three Countries, Four States, Two Months

I want to apologize that I haven't been blogging much lately there is just so much to say that I have been overwhelmed as to where I should start. Here is a mini recap. Thanks for reading and more importantly thanks for being a part of my life!

 Many People have been asking me via texts, emails, Facebook, or just face to face the BIG question of "How has your summer been?" or "How were all your trips?" So if you are one of those people this blog goes out to you. Let's drink a cyber cup of coffee and catch up on our summers, Cheers!


 Colombia Highlights:

My friend Russel and I open air preaching in the center of Bogata

Thus far my summer has been really, really great! I started off in May going on a trip to Bogota, Colombia with my friends Joaquin and Renee Evans and Russel Black and their team to do a healing conference. Russel has been to Colombia quite a few times. I even had a few friends there that have traveled to Redding for the Leaders Advance conference at Bethel. God did hundreds of miracles there. I had the honor to do a breakout session on evangelism around 200 people attended when we asked them if they had ever lead someone to Jesus four people said they had and one person said he had prayed for someone in public. We trained them on evangelism that God wants to touch the world around them, everyone wants to meet Jesus, and that the world is hungry to know God.
Within the week around 200 people were saved mainly through their church going out on the streets.

People were tangibly encountering our good God some of those people were a police officer, a soldier, a guy selling avacados and a woman selling popsicles, a beger, people on their way to work, groups of teenagers on the streets, a woman in her 80's,and my friend Paige and I's taxi driver.

A few other miracles:

-Metal disappeared supernaturally that a woman could no longer feel in her arm after having it for 11 years (four other people had metal dissolve.)

-a woman for  three years had pain in her mouth and couldn't feel her tooth now nerve is totally better

-Little boy couldn't breathe through his nose for three years now can

-Broken finger better! Cast gone!

-A four year old had rough skin when he was born it was very scaly and totally cleared up

-Scoliosis healed

-Lady had no job and was unemployed for a year and was offered a job after she received prayer

-Tumor dissolving

 

 Miami Highlights:

Castle Segovia

After Colombia I went back to Miami with Russel and Kerry Black where we had family time and revival. I felt so loved on the whole time I was there from hanging out with the Blacks' my heroes, to eating allegators, the Everglades, shopping, exploring old warehouses, eating Cuban food, going out on a boat in the ocean, and meeting some really quality people! While I was there I felt very refreshed and had some of the most fun I have had in awhile (well I'm always having fun, but this time particularly stood out!). Also God did many awesome things like dissolving tumors, pain leaving bodies, and people feeling His Presence. I adore my friends in Miami, they remind me how GOOD God is! 

 

Spain Highlights:

Great Spanish Friends!

I went to Spain to visit my good friend Jaz Jacob. We had tons of fun hanging out, eating squid, watching the EuroCup and having revival. I met many, many incredible Spaniards and was able to partner with them in being activated in healing and the prophetic.  What God is doing in Spain blew me away and encouraged me! A young boy was healed from a broken bone that wouldn't heal properly, he then rededicated his life to the Lord during the service. He left service prayed for a cripple lady and her back straightened out significantly and he prayed for another lady on the subway and she began to shake under God's power!

Many people were healed of arthritis, back pain, a few with hearing loss, and a person noticed difference in the affects of MS in their body!  It was an honor to visit Spain and I look forward to visiting again!

Italy Highlights:

Pavlo who's now smelling

My good friend Kathi Sparlinek and I went to Italy to partner with what God is doing there. We had friends who had a connection with a local church in Ashti and we were invited to come hangout and do some meetings with the pastor and his family there in their church. They are so hungry for the Presence and seeing God touch their community! One of our meetings we started off just adoring the Holy Spirit and enjoying His Presence and a guy who had barely been able to smell for 29 years his nose opened up and he could notice a major difference in his smelling! Many other miracles happened in the Presence too! People were meeting Jesus on the street and people from their church were getting their first word of knowledge and loving people so well! It was fun! A guy in his 80's named Francesco's ears opened up, he had had severe hearing loss for 5 years, right on a park bench in the center of Ashti! My 15 year old friend prayed for him, YAY God! Italy was fun and a dream fulfilled for me, It had always been my dream to visit there after graduating Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and less than two months later it DID! Thank you God!

Midwest Highlights:

Have I ever told you I have the BEST family!? While I was home I had tons of quality time with them. I was able to visit my brother in Chicago with my dad and grandma. That was a trip I will never forget. I also was able to see my sister niece and nephew. As well as stay with my close friends George and Sarah William's who are family to me and their gorgeous girls! My friend Carrie Jo and I also took a wonderful trip up to Petoskey, Michigan to speak and do ministry at a church up there. We had so much fun, God did so much and we made some really great new friends up there too! God is so good! 

Thanks for reading this. I would love to hear your comments and feedback!

 

My dad and I

I Pray that you would be overwhelmed by God's kindness and goodness! 

Good Friend Kathi

 

Also do you have any input on a subject I should blog on!? 

 

Love you guys! <3 Naomi West

Twenty, years of love!

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

Dorothea Brande

I went for a thirty five minute jog with my friend and housemate Selina Rocha a couple of days ago and after we went jogging she showed me this really incredible app on her phone when you shake it, it says a motivational phrase. When I shook it I received the quote above. Act as if it were impossible to fail. When we dream and make steps to live those dreams we actually are catapulted to new levels personally. This is something whether I have realized it or not, is something I crave; taking risks and going to the next level in whatever way I can... this saying maybe has been a life motto of mine without me EVEN realizing it.

With that I said I just turned 21 woot woot!!

And this week I compiled a list of things that God has done in my life or I have made steps towards this past year. My dream is that as you read this you would dream with God over your life and that you would allow Him to challenge you in new ways..that you would take risks and break past obstacles in your life and become the person you have always known you were inside..

Twenty was the best year of my life...

Twenty was a year of...

1. intense joy, fulfillment, purpose, and excitement

2. a year of feeling Very beautiful and loved

3. no longer taking risks, but becoming risk

4. went to Cuba ( a life long dream)

5. did my first healing conference

6. learning how to develop a healthy lifestyle of eating and rest

7. LOVING cooking

8. becoming confident in my ability to lead

9. upgrades in mindsets and favor

10. open air preaching

11. realizing and accepting what I was born for

12. the supernatural no longer was a theory that "mostly" worked.. but became a non -negotiable lifestyle.

13. deep intimacy with the Holy Spirit as a person

14. lead my first ministry trip...woot!

15. switching lifelong priorities from social to the Presence

16. feel in love with soaking!

17. becoming really confident in myself and no longer feeling like I had to prove myself, but becoming so confident in just being me.

18. actually embracing my heart and dreams to see the world come to Jesus! and a crazy explosion of salvation!!

19. seeing Holy Spirit show up in ways I had only dreamed of years previous

20. FORREAL the best year of my life thus far!! :D

Romans 10:11 For the Scripture says whoever believes in Him will not be dissappointed (NASB)

May EVERY dream God and you have dreamed over your life come true and MORE!

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 ;)

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

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!

I am writing again here is just a taste a piece of a spoken word.

 I often find you,

Serenading me with the finest love songs of promise and security

leaving me with an expectancy for all

my dreams to come true

And i know your hope

That I have

So eagerly hoped in

Could never DISAPPOINT me.

YOU ARE EXCEDINGLY BEYOND

All my vivid childish imaginations

HERE I am safe wrapped in your arms, God.

complete.

God is so good at His job.. we don't have to be!

"I believe the BIGGEST MOVE OF GOD this world has ever seen is sitting in your chair."

I was relaxing today after work (Del Taco) and I was cooking a very yummy black bean theryiaki turkey burger with avacado and provolone cheese on a whole wheat bun.. yum. I was thinking of God's goodness and how He transforms our mind and we find that we no longer have certain mindsets we use to. I'm sure everyone of you have experience that. I was thinking of how in recent months (the last 6 especially) it has become a lot easier for me to be confident when I pray God is going to show up which has really become a "no brainer," especially when I have an awareness of his goodness. Or even when I don't pray, for example when a circumstance comes across my path to just absolutely know God is going to rock it.. why because he is really good at his job.. really good.. so good in fact we don't have to be!! THAT'S GOOD NEWS!

We don't have to beg God and say "please heal so and so from such and such disease they have been so so good please God please ect." No it is his will to heal, He is so in love with the person in front of you and wants them to be well even more than you do.

 God wants to show up we don't have to say, "God please show up at church today." Bam God showed up when He sent his son to live inside of you now everywhere you go he is there changing the world through you. God is so in love with us we don't have to beg, pled, or earn anything from him. He has given it all to us freely as an inheritance we are His kids.

 He showed me that when I come into work my manager doesn't have to worry about "is Naomi going to take orders today, will she clean the tables, sweep the floor, stock, how about greet customers will she do that I wonder...hmmmmm...?" No.. she doesn't have to because she knows I will that it's my job, and I want to be there. Same way with God except more so He REALLY wants to do what is in his nature provide, heal, restore, cleanse.. ect. He is in love and he never changes ever! He loves being Him it's really natural for Him lol.

God is so good at what he does it is His nature to love, perform miracles, grow out limbs, take away pain, set people free, release joy, transform lives, businesses, families, nations, ect.. He is so good at his job it really really really takes the pressure off of us. It's so good! He's so good!

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

 

Revival and Hot Tubs

"When we realize we are in family; we can't fail. Sucess is risk, it is doing what we have never done before knowing our father is in a GOOD MOOD and He can't help but show up when we step out in LOVE!"

Just got back a few days ago from a travel trip with Bethel.
I went with Jason Chin and a team to Ramona Ca.

I really enjoyed all of the laughs, jokes, miracles, testimonies, love encounters, spending time in the presence and soaking.. haha in a hot tub!

We started the trip with a thirteen hour drive from Redding to Ramona (outside of San Diego.)

At one point on the drive we were outside of Starbucks and Daniel one of the guys on the team was fake preaching to us three girls. Saying "Jesus is alive. He is here. He loves you He is healing a neck right now."

Right then a woman started to walk in Starbucks and was looking right at us. I asked her "Do you have a neck problum." She said yes. We released God's presence over her. She totally got healed!! This rocked me we were totally joking and still the "fake" word of knowledge was right. It just shows how easy, simple, and fun it is to partner with heaven. He really just wants to get out of us, and love the world around us!!

The Highlights:

personally stepping out in new levels of risk

experiencing family haha

riding a quad

starting some new awesome friendships

the simplicity of love and miracles

a new confidence to take risk

prayed for a man at a gas station without a leg even though I was scared.

*many neck problums healed

*a woman with 28 years of back pain in her lower back all GONE!!
*a woman who worked at a grocery store feeling God's presence for the first time

*lump disappeared on womans side no one even prayed
*legs grow out people gettting taller
*people touched through prophetic songs and art
*a man with cancer life come back into his body.. color came onto his skin. He could feel his feet and he felt as if walking on springs. A symptom of his cancer was numbness in his limbs. IT WAS ALL GONE!!! He said to me that he wants to start praying for the sick. Before he came to the meeting he had absoulutely no grid for healing or the miraculous but heard we would be able to help him so he came.. and of course PAPA showed up!!
*it was very exciting to see the church we were at get excited about praying for the sick, prophecy and treasure hunts

*people getting names and tons of clues on their treasure maps right and realizing they could her from God even though they felt they were making it up.. hahahaha!!

*it is impossible for us to step out and Him not show up!!
*had the honor of going on a treasure hunt with two 80 year olds and seeing them take risks they never before had taken.
And so many other amazing things!!


God is so in love with us.. He just wants to rock the world with His love!!! It is so easy and fun!
I challenge you to dream with God and take new risks!! But most important have FUN!!!!
hahahaha!! BAM!!!!!!! <3

Invitation to Dream

"Everybody wants their dreams to come true, the world is BEGGING for someone to reveal dreams coming true are possible."- Danny Silk


I remember sitting on my bed at 11 years old, thinking I would be 100% okay if I never lived to be 20. And I remember a chill went through my bones as I absolutely realized I meant it. All my dreams had died at that point and I didn't any longer felt safe to express myself or how I really felt. I had forfeited my dreams for a mentality of survival, living in a world of low self esteem, extreme depression, horrible circumstances, self hatred, and irrational fears. A LOT has changed since then.. okay EVERYTHING HAS!

 I find myself often dreaming and pondering what will the future look like, what can I bring, what do I offer , and HOW CAN I CHANGE THE WORLD!?


The distance between what should be and what will be is us and will we dare to dream?  Or will we remain satisfied with what we have? It takes a lot of courage to dream because most dreams currently appear impossible. I really believe that nothing is impossible and that God wants to see impossibilities bow to His name through partnership with us. AND I'M GIVING MY LIFE TO THAT RIGHT THERE.. that's what I want to be known for a woman who loved God with everything and lived in a way that nothing was impossible.. what do you want to be known for?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Or you were ten times bolder or resources were not an issue?

THINK.. those are your dreams

 Your life is meant to feed and inspire those around you.
 When we dream with God it causes a dissatisfaction with a natural life and propels us into a life of purpose.


When your dreams are coming true you are a tree of life, your eyes illuminate hope. The whole world sees it  because everyone is hungry to be fulfilled, to be doing what they were born for, to be doing what makes them come alive.


 So I keep a list of my dreams I believe I have 170 of them and I add to them and check them off as they happen here are a few that have happened since March..

 -Visit the Redwood Forest 
-Paint on stage during worship (at Bethel)
-Visit LA and San Frann
-Go to Mexico
-Hug someone and they be healed (she was blind)
-Pray for people and they be healed of cancer


 Some dreams of mine I have dreamed that have not happened yet, but will!

-Start a spontaneous dance party in public
-Open air preach in America (demonstrating God's love and power)
- People who are extremely starved  bodies get fat and entirely nourished, miraculously
-Visit Cuba 
-Travel throughout Africa
-See Africa completely redeemed the ground grow fat crops, family unit restored, creativity, ect.
-That people getting out of wheelchairs would be normal (in my life)
- Adopt beautiful and amazing kids 
-That when I shop people would fall out in God's presence and encounter Him just because He lives inside of me.
-Give away a house
-See healing recognized in the world wide church as part of the atonement.. a reformation!! hahaha!



I AM NOT GETTING OFF THIS PLANET UNTIL... CANCER and AIDS BECOMES COMPLETELY ERADICATED I just love dreaming with God and staying expectant and looking for what He does and how we can partner with Him and take risks. Living in this place of dreams and having vision in our lives are like a compass directing us where to go. Our dreams (or lack of dreams) literally steer our lives. I CHALLENGE YOU to start dreaming more with God and writing them down and looking out for how He shows up. (these are things I have been thinking about for a few years and a few of my lines were inspired by things Danny Silk has said) <3