EXTRAVAGANT.BLISS: May 2012

Naomi's Bethel Adventures

An Update and Exciting Announcement

A Massive Thank you!

Thank you to all my family and friends all over the globe, my life is truly indebted to your prayers and support. Thank you for all of your encouragement, emails, phone calls, generosity, and believing in me, each one of you has a special place in my heart. Thank you for every seed you have sown in my life, not one of them has been in vain. I am so grateful to have you in my life and that’s why I have written this newsletter to honor you with an update of what has been happening in and through my life. I hope the work God has doing in my life encourages you because you have sewn into it!

This year I have been interning for Les Coombs at Bethel's Healing Rooms as my third year and final year at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, California, which basically means I help lead the students in the healing rooms and see God do miracles every week as people come for prayer and ministry from all over the globe. Along with interning I have been taking ministry trips some of the places I have traveled to this year are Canada, Cuba, Oregon, California, Florida, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. Each trip has been amazing and completely life transforming! It has been such an honor and privilege. I have seen hundreds of people saved this year and thousands of verifiable miracles. Each day has been such an excitement and joy to experience God's extravagant love personally, to activate the body of Christ, pour into leaders and churches, and to see many people experience Jesus personally. I feel very privileged, honored, grateful, and overwhelmingly happy! We all serve a very great God!

Cuba Part Two

Cuba alter call, 60 people gave lives to Jesus

I went to Cuba for the second time in March and the trip far exceeded my high expectations. We did two leadership conferences on the east side of the island where foreigners rarely go. We were able to do teaching and trainings with leaders on many subjects including healing, prophecy, evangelism, and worship. Also we were able to leave each leader with a packet full of teachings our team had written in Spanish on thirty different subjects. Our final meeting was attended by 3,600 people in a city of 10,000 people; that means 36% of the city came to the meeting. I had the honor of doing salvation alter calls and over 150 people received Jesus personally. I met a woman who was in a horrible fire 10 years ago who's ears had been burned entirely off. I was able to pray for her and her ears literally began to grow in my hands as well as she had scars and burns that disappeared right in front of both of our eyes. A young man whose face was half paralyzed for four years is now able to move his face fully. A few thousand miracles happened, many people gave their lives to Jesus, and a few hundred leaders were trained and equipped. God loves Cuba!

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT

This next year I will still be involved in Bethel's healing rooms and also I have been invited to do full time itinerate traveling as a part of Bethel which will just be an extension of what I have done this year. I am confident this is what God has for me in this next season of my life. I have received tons of confirmation and encouragement through my spiritual mothers and fathers and through prophetic words. Practically this looks like traveling to churches where I am invited and have relationship, teaching, and activating churches in a supernatural lifestyle. It looks like continuing to lead teams and ministry trips. I will be in relationship with mothers and fathers from Bethel while being mentored, empowered, and activated by them. I am very excited about this decision and these next few years to learn from Bethel staff’s wisdom and heart. I know I can learn so much from where they have been. What they carry is so valuable to me and it is such an honor for me to be here and partner with what God is doing in Redding and globally through His beautiful Church!

The past few years during ministry school I have worked diligently maintaining my alone time with God, fulltime jobs, ministry, school, and travel; with all of that on my plate it has been wonderful and at times overwhelming. I now know the Lord is calling me to just focus on my relationship with Him, the relationships I have, and ministry. When I first heard this from the Lord it honestly was a surprised to me but I know this is what He is calling me to. So with much prayer I have decided to no longer work at Red Lobster or any secular job. I will be living off of support and offerings from when I travel. I know I will see God’s faithfulness and His extravagant love in this area of my life. I am excited and expectant to see the ways He will provide as I trust Him and walk in faith.

If you would like to give financially, I receive tax deductable gifts through The Lewis House (my home church) please print my name in the memo of your check. If you would like to give online you can give your non deductible gift via PayPal, my account is naomigracewest@yahoo.com. Thank you for reading and being a part of my life as we partner together in the Harvest!

Naomi West

The Lewis House

4130 Lewis Ave

Toledo, Ohio 43612