My Trip to the Gay Pride Festival

A few days ago I went to San Francisco on a trip with some friends. The only thing we had on our agenda was love.  While we were down there we  went to this event called Off the Grid it was an event with music and over 30 food trucks (I highly recommend going!), the Golden Gate Bridge, Union Square, and the Tenderloin all to release God's love. We saw God encounter drug dealers, prostitutes, people coming off of methadone, the homeless, and the gay community.

We went specifically to love on people at the 43rd Annual Gay Pride event. They estimated 1 million people would be involved either in the festival or the parade June 29-30. As our team was talking and praying for the event. A church leader down there a BSSM illumni named Rebecca was sharing some wisdom with us. She asked if we had any questions for her about the event. I said, "So I am assuming at some point during Gay Pride someone will ask us something along the lines of 'since you follow Jesus or are a Christian, what do you think of my lifestyle?' so Rebecca how would you respond in that scenario?" She said, "Well I would say to them it isn't my job to judge you. The one whose job that is, is thinking nothing but good things about you. His thoughts towards you outnumber the grains of sand on the seashores." After she said that our team was feeling pretty pumped, full of compassion, and excited for what God would do.


We headed down towards the event on our walk from the parking garage to the event everything looked like my usual experience in San Fran; busy streets, cafes, dozens of homeless people, trash in the streets, and  beautiful views. When we walked into the event we saw rainbows galore, very immodestly dressed people, couples everywhere both heterosexual and homosexual, drag queens, large stages with people dancing, the smell of marijuana and the smell of San Francisco food trucks, The whole scene reminded me of an MTV Spring Break. I thought this place is exactly where God is and I am so glad I am here. The same Jesus who was called a friend of Prostitutes and sinners, the Jesus who tells us light shines best in darkness, the Jesus who heals the brokenhearted, and sets people free, the Jesus who has an answer to every problem in world history is here.

We split in teams of twos and threes and went around loving people. Our team hugged a drag queen and prophesied over him. Then I saw this guy who I had met earlier with a free hug sign. I decided to sit in the grass next to him. I then told him I had a spiritual reading for him (a prophetic word) I began to tell him, "I see you are really introverted but have been doing things to break out of your shell. You are in a season where you have had a lot of new ideas lately for your future." I said some other things as well. He said "Whoa, how do you know all that about me? I am here doing this hug thing by myself so I can start to feel more comfortable around people. However it isn't working so I am about to go to Burger King and do these drugs." He pointed to his back pocket and proceeded to tell me about some heavy drugs that you eat. He was at the event doing them and selling them.I then told him about the Presence and how much God is thinking about him and how good he is. I told him that his drugs couldn't even compare in the slightest to God's Presence. He said later he would probably check the Presence out. I told him could do it whenever he wanted and I gave him some tips to experiencing God's Presence.

Many people at Pride were prophesied over and they were shocked and how we knew things about  them. We would tell them Jesus was the reason we knew and that He deeply loves them. Lots of the team saw people healed. We were really sensitive about if and when we would ask people in this particular location if they wanted to give their life to Jesus. Tons of people at the Gay Pride Festival were encouraged and we are dreaming about how to make a massive impact in that culture in the future. It was a good day and a very eye opening experience.

Later that night we went back to the awesome church that was hosting us and encouraged them with testimonies of what God is doing in their city. We saw dozens of people healed including a women with a growth on her chest that went up to the top of her armpit dissolve entirely.


Thanks For Reading. 



Maybe you are reading this and you are living a gay lifestyle.

I want to encourage you and tell you God loves you and looks at you with eyes of love.
If you want to ask Jesus into your life you should it's the best decision you will ever make. He will come into your life and make everything new. He will restore you, heal you, and love on you. Feel free to email me at naomigracewest@yahoo.com

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.

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

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!!

Santa Cruz is SUPERNATURAL

I just got back from a trip to Santa Cruz about a week ago. I have been trying to write about some of my trips, I would say I am maybe having a 35% success rate at that. The trip was to the Santa Cruz School of the Supernatural with Joaquin Evans, one of my heroes and friends. It was six second years and me. God's presence came super strong in both of the meetings at one time I unexpectedly flew out of my chair and landed on the floor next to some of the very intoxicated (in the Presence) students. Many miracles happened like pain leaving bodies and ears opening up and I even unexpectedly got to speak for about fifteen minutes and do some ministry time. I just shared testimonies about how easy and fun it is to partner with God. That walking in the supernatural is for anyone and every Christian.


The second year students and I decided to go to the pier for fudge and an americano for me!  On our way we past a soccer game where some Hispanic people where playing. I got a group of theirs attention and started loudly calling out words of knowledge. They began to laugh and none responded then I pointed to an older guy and asked him if he had pain in his lower back. He said yes, bad. We prayed quickly in Spanish for like 20 seconds, he tested it out all the pain was gone! Thank you Jesus! Next we began propheczing over people, while our friends down the way were growing out legs. I began to prophecy over this young man about sports, his heart, and the future God had for him. It was really simple. I could then see his heart had majorly opened up, admist of his friends sort of mocking us. I asked if he ever felt God's presence. He said he didn't know. I said, "You would know!" I asked him if he wanted to he said yes. He felt God's presence and love. I then asked him, if God was really good and loving if he wanted to know him personally. He said yes. He then accepted Jesus and we prophecied over him that he can hear God's voice and do what we do love on people and miracles. This young man was super thankful, we then exchanged facebook information.

EVERYONE is super hunger to know God. If someone isn't walking with God, He probably has just been misrepresented to them. It says in Haggai 2:7 that He is the desire of the nations, the word there actually means heathens those who aren't walking with God. They were all made to desire God and know Him intimately! :D Wow! Wherever you go.. invite people to experience His Love, Kindness, and Goodness!

Birthday Healing on the sidewalk!

I just got this facebook message from my friend Landon who I met traveling in North Vancouver, Canada. I did a healing conference in his church with some friends! Landon has been going after living a naturally supernatural lifestyle for two years. He messaged me tonight to share this testimony.. Landon is just a normal dad.. who loves people and believes nothing is impossible.. the same Jesus Christ that lives in Landon lives in YOU! God loves doing miracles with us. All Christians are called to walk in the power of GOD!


"Yesterday I stopped for a homeless guy. I gave him some money and asked him his story. He's had to stop work cause of tendinitis. I offered him prayer, he gladly accepted, and said he personally knew Jesus.

I prayed for him three times and after the third time both his shoulders and back were healed! He couldn't feel his tendinitis, his pain went from an 8 to 0! He picked up his stuff gave me a big hug and headed out for some cheap eats. It was his birthday too!!! "

 I just challenge you to make a choice that today I am going to look for opportunities to release God's Presence into impossible situations and expect a miracle! I am going to believe that when I(you) pray something happens. Today make a choice to step out and love the one in front of you just like Landon did..

to tell me testimonies of what God does you can contact me @naomigracewest@yahoo.com

LOVE YOU all and GOD BLESS!                                                        

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 ;)

Tumors Dissolve, Neuropathy healed, people saved.. NEBRASKA

I just got back from a CRAZY trip to Nebraska..
I was recently thinking about a trip I went on in July 2008 to Mozambique..
where I saw God do some miracles I had never seen before like the lame walk, blind see, deaf receive hearing, and swollen stomachs become normal.
And I remembered that I use to believe that it was easier for God to do miracles there.
then here in America
I DON'T BELIEVE...
that anymore :)
let's just laugh at that lie.

There is no place that isn't an open heaven for God's love to come into and rock..
And miracles, healing, signs and wonders are just one expression of His Goodness and nature.
When He touches us it shows us what He is like and that His Kingdom is at hand..
That He is here now! That God dwells with and in His creation that He loves!

Everywhere we went in Nebraska whether it was a coffee shop, gas station, Walmart, college campus. God showed up with His love, power, and GOODNESS! Healings, salvations, and people feeling God's presence for the FIRST TIME was very frequent and such a pleasure to be there for!

A few of the many things he did was..
Heal a woman of an eye that had lost it's sight due to an accident when she was three years old. Her eye was now lazy and she could no longer see color or make out pictures. The presence of God came and she began to see colors, details in the room, and then she could count fingers at a distance! She hadn't seen out of it in almost fifty years!
Next God healed twelve years of neuropathy in her hands and feet without anyone praying for her. Then she couldn't find her carpel tunnel, and neither could the woman next to her! NO ONE PRAYED!
The woman next to both of them had two gumball sized fatty tumors in her forearm these started to disappear.
This church was activated in miracles and words of knowledge! YAY GOD!

Also in two other church services two different women with withered hands were healed!

My friend Cami and I spoke at a youth service with around 60 kids about God's presence and goodness and many of them felt God's presence for the first time and shared with the other youth their encounters. That was so exciting to see them go from barely responding to me speaking to them to smiles and tears as they experienced how good my best friend, Holy Spirit is.

So many other great and absolutely amazing things happened but these are some main highlights. I had such a great time seeing Jesus get everything HE paid for.. :) Thanks for all your love &&& SUPPORT!!

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. 
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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)

Supernatural Weight Loss

A few weeks ago when I was back home in Toledo Ohio, I was at church and ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in awhile. I was sharing with him a few testimonies about creative miracles when he asked if I could pray for him for a weight loss miracle. He said diet and exercise had been hard and he really wanted some divine intervention.

So I prayed as in, I released joy over him and laughed a lot, I don't remember actually "praying." He felt God's presence and what he called a sucking in his stomach. His stomach was sucking in supernaturally!


Then both of us watched his stomach go in a bit..prayed some more and in a bit and some more and still in.. Then we stopped and he still felt it going in ..guessing an inch total and counting!! Yay GOD!!!!! :D He also felt his arms get smaller and when he looked in the mirror he said he noticed a noticable difference! (anyone reading this recieve it for yourself)

I had never seen this happen before but my bestfriend Holy Spirit heals all that come to Him. It isn't about what we have or haven't seen, it's not our efforts, but our willingness to partner with a God who loves to restore all! He is forsure a God of wholeness.

Raised from the dead!!

This story was originally published here on the Bridgeway Church blog.

On April 10th and 11th Greg Morgan and John Carvey brought me (Rick Mann) and Jim Rogers to the Navajo Nation to pray for a congregation in Ganado. While there I got to be good friends with a pretty new Christian, Jeff, who was like a sponge. He wanted everything that God had for him and his family. He asked me on Saturday night if anyone in our congregation at BridgeWay Church had ever experienced someone being raised from the dead. I told him about the Tanzania Team with Jim Rogers and that many miracles, including someone being raised from the dead had been witnessed. Well, Jeff said he wanted that anointing for his family and his church. He had me lay hands on him right there and give him all that BridgeWay had in God's anointing. This guy is hungry for the Lord to move.

Sunday's service lasted from 9am to around 4pm. Jim and I prayed for the fire of the Holy Spirit to fall on the congregation. Many of the parishioners from the Ganado church came back in the prayer line multiple times for the Lord's anointing to fall on them.

The following week I called Jeff to see how he was doing and if the Lord was still on the move there. Jeff said he was glad I called him. He had a huge testimony to share with me. He said that after the BridgeWay team left them on Sunday night, the Lord told him to stay in the spirit. Jeff said that the anointing of the Lord fell on their church in Ganado on Sunday and remained on them after we left. Monday morning he got the terrible news that his cousin had hung himself.

An ambulance took his cousin to a hospital in Albuquerque and kept him on life support until his family could come and say goodbye. They declared him brain dead upon arrival at the hospital. The Lord told Jeff to stay in the Spirit while he went to see his cousin. When they got to the hospital in Albuquerque, Jeff and his wife went in through the doctor's entrance and all of the pass card protected doors just opened for them as they went through. When they got into the room, his cousin's head was swollen and dark from the hanging injury.

The doctors told him that they tested for brain activity and he was declared brain dead. After the family said their goodbyes the hospital was planning on unhooking him. He was essentially dead already. The Holy Spirit directed Jeff to pray Romans 8: 9-11. ". . . .He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you."

After Jeff read this scripture to his cousin, tears rolled down the face of his cousin in response! After that, Jeff says that the doctors retested his cousin's brain activity on Tuesday, the next day, because they saw movement in his cousin's legs. The test showed some brain activity coming back. On Wednesday, his cousin sat up and said "get me out of here! I want to go home!"

Praise God!!!


(source one of my favorite websites: healingherald.org)

I'm loving it.. Revival at McDonalds!

Yesterday three friends of mine and I went on a treasure hunt to pray for people. Before you go out you write down clues of where you feel God wants you to go. If people aren't getting really strong impressions I just tell them to write down the first thing that comes to their mind because their imagination is good and they have the mind of Christ.

 It was all of their first time on a treasure hunt.. we followed our clues,, Lewis, Alexis, and McDonald to  the McDonalds on the intersection of Lewis and Alexis.. There we ordered smoothies and showed the woman taking our order our treasure maps. She was shocked to see her managers name, neck pain, wrist problems, horses, and a few other clues on it. She began telling us about how she recently moved to Toledo from Arkansas (I believe) and she had fallen and injured the whole left side of her body moving. We prayed for her and she tested it out and said she had less pain. We prophecied over her that God was bringing her into a place of hope. rest, peace, and His presence.. She was very HAPPY because she said this was exactly what she needed. As we wrapped up our conversation she noticed all her pain was gone.. we all left with smiles :D

Next we went outside to leave and we found more "treasures" people to talk to and love on who fit our description. But I am going to tell you about my favorite part. We met this woman outside name Joyce. We just felt like approaching her as she looked at our map she said almost everything made sense!! Many of the names were people who were close to her and we had a description of what she looked like. Also we had back and jaw pain. And her location we had the clues tree, flowers, garden, concrete slab, and she was sitting under a tree, on a large curb next to a flower garden median. We told her God lead us to her and that He loved her so MUCH! She said she was just praying and wondering when her life would turn around and if she would meet good people. She began to cry as she realized God had set her up. She had told us she had recently lost around 100,000 dollars due to fraud on her debit card and now her and her husband who was nearby holding a sign were out of a place to live. We encouraged her that God was good and turning the situation around, as we talked her back pain left. Then my friend Wendy prayed for her jaw which was injured by a man punching her who had a gun.. she said she had been on meds for it but could no longer afford them for a month. All the pain left her a jaw and she experienced god's joy and peace..!!! This woman is such a beautiful woman who God can not resist.

God is so in love with people and can not resist touching their lives!!!

God heals through a Johnny Cash Song!

Some friends and I decided to go downtown Toledo to love on people Sunday.. there actually happened to be a Toledo Mudhens game so a lot of people were out walking around.

  My friend Carrie decided to dare me to get a word of knowledge for a man sitting on a curb and afterwords to sing "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash to get the man healed. I got a word of knowledge for lower back pain and his ankle which was sprained. He said he had been limping badly the pain was at a 10.. so in front of all his coworkers at the baseball stadium who were having a smoke break. I sung "Ring of Fire" and his pain in his ankle went down to a 2! YAY God.


Later as we were passing a group of 5 teenage boys I dared Carrie to get a word of knowledge for one of their names. So she looked over and said who's name is Paul. All the boys looked at one of the boys. He said it was his name. We told him God told us and he was on God's heart. We asked if he had a problem with his knee he said, "yes." He had a tear in his knee, I believe due to sports. We prayed and all the pain left. We then prayed for them to encounter God and prophesied over the boys.. They were rocked and shocked!


God is so good! He wants to touch your city more than you do! Healing is so easy... we didn't even try to get them healed. It is God's nature to heal..He is so faithful! Step out today ask God for a word of knowledge today in a way you never have before for a location, name, or body part that needs healed!! Then step out and ask the person! God will show up!! :D

Guadalajaran Volleyball and miracles at the park.

If we are faithless,      

He remains faithful,    

for he cannot deny who he is. 2 Timothy 2:13

 It is His nature to heal, set free, save, love, bring His Kingdom to Earth, He can not deny Himself.

Two days ago my friend Carrie and I decided to get together and get whacked in God's presence with the intentions of loving on people as we met them. We decided to head to a metropark in my area. So as we were deciding where we wanted to go at the park, we noticed a group of people bumping around a volleyball so we decided to ask if we could join their game. As we approached them we realized they were a group of Hispanic people about the size of 15 plus. I believe only three of the family members were fluent in English all being kids and the rest spoke only Spanish or some minimal spanglish. Que divertido! Carrie and I would get to break out our Spanish as we developed relationship and had revival. It turns out the whole family which consisted of brothers, sisters, aunts, and cousins were originally from Guadalajara, Mexico and were visiting their sister on a trip from where they live in Chicago.

We bumped the volleyball with them for a half hour in the 100 degree sun ! Then we joined their familia for a fruit picnic and conversations about our lives. Carrie had a word of knowledge about the woman's back and shoulder pain. The woman, Angelica then told us she had fallen down the stairs two months prior and had twisted her back and constantly had level 8 pain on a scale of one to ten. Also she told us she had a hernia in her stomach and we asked her if she had popping and cracking in her joints. She said she did we asked if we could pray for her. She said yes. As we prayed she said she felt a presence inside of her belly and she said the hardness in her stomach left. Next all her back pain, shoulder, knee, and head pain all left!!! Wow that is amazing! Thank you Jesus! She said she never had felt Holy Spirit like that before! Her husband also was healed of intense back and hip pain! He can not deny Himself!
Two hours after we met them we departed, with lots of smiles, hugs, kisses, and pictures taken, we made family at the park with our beautiful friends from Guadalajara. :D

Also yesterday three of my friends and I went on a quick vacay to a lake house there we learned our friend Micah did not have arches in his feet God in a moment gave him two new arches and now he says he can feel the difference as he walks, his weight has shifted from the bottom of his foot to his heel! My other three friends all had one shorter leg then their other and we watched as God grew out all their legs!! Jesus is so fun and amazing! He can not deny Himself! HE is so good at revival! Revival was His idea!!!

                                                                Carrie and Naomi :)

                                                                    from the park

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.

GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!! 150,000 Saved, 10 Lepers Cleansed, Many Creative Miracles

This is a recent video testimony and podcast from last weeks church service at Bridgeway Church in Denver CO.  Jim Rogers from Bridgeway shares about his recent trip to Nigeria. Hands and limbs grow back in the Glory Cloud! Lepers are healed as noses and fingers grow back. 150,000 are saved and 2 people are raised from the dead!  God did tons of crazy things in Nigeria which He will do all around the world!!
Please listen to the full testimony, prophecy and impartation at  http://www.bridgeway.us/podcast.php 
it is amazing!!!

And watch this video!!! OH MY!! I have never heard anything quite like this!!! :D
Nothing is impossible with God