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                                               (Pictured: Joben,Robbie, Levi,me, Elizabeth,Ahab, Lauren,Gail,Peter)










My Cuba team and I just got back from doing a healing school together in La Grande Oregon, here are a few highlights, at least 7 people gave their hearts to Jesus, multiple deaf ears were open, cysts disappear, 15 years of fibromialgia gone, AND a woman who was completely blind for 32 years start to see light, shadows, shapes and was able to trace large writings with her finger!!! GOD is amazing! WOW! 

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!

Prophetic Ministry in downtown

Twelve BSSM students and I are going on our mission trip to Cuba together and last week we hit up the streets together to love on people here is a brief summary of what God did:) ENJOY!!

Testimonies from this past monday! Me, naomi, and Peter were one group and Ahab, Robbie, and Lauren were another group. We saw a car driving who dropped off someone. We went up to the guy who was driving to roll down his window. Naomi told him that she saw a pink blanket over his car( spirit of God hovering) which was the Lords sweetness and love. Gots words of knowledge that he liked extreme sports(surfing), was going to invent new things in that arena, he has had lots of protection over his life and continuing, used to dream really big when he was a kid, and needed prayer for a job and school stuff. Then there was two ladies in the parking lot, Peter saw God comforting a lot of past wounds. Got to release love over them, she just took her son to the emergency room for kidney pains and last year her son died. Then there was a woman with two kids coming down the street. Naomi started going on a prophetic rampage and me and peter joined in! Everything was right on and she started tearing up. she used to know Jesus as a kid but has falling away, right there she felt the presence of God and rededicated her life right there. Also her hips felt a lot better since she just had a baby!! As we went back in to work place there was a girl sitting filling out papers with a bible. Peter went and gave her a word. After hearing her whole story and ministering to her she gave her life to Jesus. I believe she was delivered of demonic attack. She was so blessed that she was crying the whole time, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. "God knows a lot of things about a lot of people"-Naomi. Then Ahab and his team went to a coffee shop, discovered being turned down is really fun. They saw 3 guys coming to then and the shy guy wanted to find out about his destiny. He came alive inside and got rocked by prophetic words. Got to minister to a guy at the bus station and give a word about going from place to place but God was giving him a house.
Wow Jesus just ministered to so many people!! Have a blissed out day today:)
Written by: my amazing friend Amanda Borghese (1st year BSSM)

                                         Picture of our team worshiping:)

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

Cuba.. the rumors are true.

It feels like it has been eons since I have last written publicly.

So much has been going on lately, so much transition.

But I will be writing again, it truely is something I enjoy =)

I went to tell you all about our trip to Cuba, many of my friends and supporters have been asking me about our trip.. so here is a brief highlight of our trip.

The rumors are true.. the deaf.... hear, the lame....walk, the blind.... see......

   and God is BETTER and HAPPIER than we EVER imagined possible.

So much to say.. oh man. I want to start of with a HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported me in finances, encouragement, prayers, or just down right interest in my life. You all are bomb.com. With that said.. Cuba was EPIC in many ways it was everything I ever dreamed of.

I loved my team, the people in Cuba, and the experience.

Cuba is a beautiful country with a unique culture. I think everyone should go at least once!

The people are precious and are so hungry to know God. I am so thankful to have went.

I really just love Revival and seeing God's Kingdom come to earth..

That is why I get out of bed every morning.

So we traveled a total of 1700 kilometers in the country and stayed at a different place every night and did a total of 8 church services and in between cities we loved on whoever we ran into. It was a blast. We had the opportunity to pray and prophecy over a Cuban General and his family and a few other people who told us they worked for the gov. There was over a 100 people who gave their heart to the Lord and 100s of miracles, so many it was hard to count! Because most of them happened without our team even praying for them.

Some Highlights:

• A woman with a STD for 6 years who had problums walking due to swelling. She said sometimes she couldn't walk at all it hurt to bad. I just released God's fathers love and held her, all swelling left and shes walked around now with out any problums. All the shame left her and she began to laugh. This was fun to see God touch her and do many things in her life all at once. In one healing the whole gospel message is portrayed.
• Everywhere we went and talked with people that I can think of we saw people saved and healed
• A little girl got out of a wheelchair and took her first steps, IN HER LIFE!! her brother saw this.. and felt the kindness and love of God in a new way.
• Blind eyes open after 6 years...
• kidney problums healed
• a woman who lost her voice for a really long time could sing again
• 3 men with deafness have never heard anything now hearing sounds and vibrations (at least)
•  a woman who came to church that day just to know God cared about her she had wondered for years and she came because that night was her last hope. She said she was leaving for the first time knowing God cared about her.
• people getting out of wheelchairs
• Almost every miracle in the churches happened without anyone in our team praying for them.
• And also we got to activate the churches in miracles it was fun to see them realize God wants to use them to do miracles!!

Salvation:

13 people were saved as our team stopped randomly to get water for like 10 minutes. We called out words of knowledge and just asked people if they wanted to feel God's presence they said yes. 13 people gave their heart to the Lord. Seeing people say yes to God on the streets all over Cuba was so fun!!

 It is so easy to see people come to the Lord when they saw how happy and great He is.

This Jesus we love is ENTIRELY irresistible.

I believe when we truely believe that. It will change our expectations of what we expect to see God do through our lives and in our lives.

Personal Highlight/Encounter

During one of our evening services before it began I went around the room praying for people who had problums in their bodies, people were being healed of decades of pain, hearing loss, someone who had crutches and crippiling in their body for a few years was able to walk and God was doing MANY many amazing things. A few dozen people were healed as they just checked out their bodies.. They couldn't find their problums. this all was amazing.. but then something happened in worship that forever changed my life.

It all happened as I was dancing around and celebrating God's goodness. I was just acknowledging God and who He is. I was just acknowledging how powerful He was and I realized that it felt like I could touch anyone and I would see them totally restored, healed, or whatever was needed. Then God said to me, "Do you want to see what I can do.'' And of course I said yes, and I became really excited. I began to  watch angels walk around the room and as they touched people, the people were falling on the floor, crying, being healed and experiencing God in radical ways. There is some more details to this whole moment, but in this moment I realized, yes God likes to partner with me but He is so incredible at doing what He does. In this moment a deep cry was birthed in my life as I watched the Holy Spirit my favorite man in the world go around and meet these people. I knew I have to know Him, I have to know this Holy Spirit like never before. I must know this man!! I have always realized that it is inevidable that through my life millions will be saved, nations transformed, dead raised ect. But that in the end I just want to know Him like never before. All I want is to know this man, this God, this guy I call my best friend.

And that is what I give my life to this beautiful friendship.

Do you want to feel my friend?

I just love God and revival, in my greatest efforts I couldn't do any of this..

                               p.e.r.i.o.d.                

         grace..

<3 Naomi Grace

photo props: Estephone (Mitzi Estefania)

Cuba Team (not pictured Kris, Lars, Osmani, and Lesa)

Well Hello Caribean!



Andres revivalist bus driver



Comida!!

Cuban Cars

Cuba {Desire fulfilled}

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

This time last year I was often seen walking around with this tall, peciular Norweigan girl who I befriended. I remember long talks and dreams. Dreaming of photography, fashion, and driving a pastel, junker car in Cuba and potentially hitting a Cuban Cigar.. okay maybe not the latter. I have never understood the American and international fascination with Cuban cigars. In those moments of expressing our dreams. I was awakened to my childhood thoughts of Cuba and young boys with the name of Elian Gonzalez. Do you remember him the illegal immigrant from Cuba? Well I do and I remember running home from school at nine years old to hear about him, communism, and what kind of country I would grow up into. During this time something inside f me burned to see his culture transformed and I didn't understand that fire burning in my chest at all.. now I can a bit.. here it is..  read this letter I recently wrote.

Dear Friends and Family,

Wow, Jesus is Amazing!  It seems He is always looking for opportunities to partner with us to show His miraculous intervention into the everyday world around us. Here are a few things that have happened recently in my life. Just this week, at church during Baptisms a blind man  Sunday was getting baptized and as he got up from the water he could see figures which then progressed to him reading signs and seeing clearly!!! Wow, that is good news! He loves us!!! Also, this week at the healing rooms, a man who was completely paralyzed got up out of his wheel chair laughing and full of joy walked for like 20 minutes around the room with assistance. We just laughed with him as he continued to get more and more breakthrough! It has become extremely normal to see people radically touched by God in public, encountering his love, being radically healed, rocked with His joy, or saved.  Every day I am reminded why I am alive, to love God and love the world around me!

As many of you know I am in my second year of Bethel Supernatural School of Ministry and God is doing many awesome things in my life! I am writing to share with you about the opportunity I have to go to CUBA on a mission trip. Our goal is to rise up leaders in Cuba who will influence their nation from within their country with Kingdom core values, love, and the power of God. I wanted to let you know about all the exciting things God is doing in Cuba and also partner with you to see your own breakthroughs! I am praying that God's love and goodness would be rocking your worlds daily, that God would change your world and the world through you!

This is the first time Bethel has taken a team into Cuba, but we have some very strong connections with some of the national church leaders.  Our main objective will be the implementation of two healing schools, one on each side of the island.  Each school will serve as many as 400 pastors, equipping them with tools to impact their areas of influence. During the evenings these schools will be open to the public.  It is believed that as many as 1000 people will come to these evening conferences to be trained in signs and wonders. We will also spend some time doing ministry on the streets and within the communities.  This is an amazing opportunity, and we are expecting God to do AMAZING things that will LITERALLY change Cuba's history. We are expecting blind eyes to open, lame people to take their first steps, dead to raise, many people to start walking in miracles, and of course everyone’s lives who we encounter to be transformed by God's great love and His unspeakable joy! "IT IS TIME FOR CUBA TO BEGIN TO MOVE IN SIGNS AND WONDERS AGAIN!"

 I am very excited about what God is going to do in Cuba not only the time we’re there but in history. Cuba is definitely shifting and changing in a very good way. Please partner with me in dreaming and praying for Cuba. If you would like to give to what God is doing in Cuba, financial gifts may be made online at ibssm.org. Click give to a mission trip, then type in Naomi West, and fill out your card info. This gift is tax-deductible and you will receive a statement at the end of the year for your tax records. If you wish your gift to be anonymous, please check the anonymous box. This will allow you to receive an end of year statement, but will not allow the student to see your name.

(If online payment is not an option, donations can be mailed to Bethel Church Attn: Bethel International 933 College View Dr. Redding, CA 96003. With my name on a paper enclosed

 with your tax-deductable  gift)

Thank you so much for being a part of my life!! I am so thankful and grateful to know you. I would also love to get an update about what is going on in your life and how I can pray for you. My trip dates are March 26- April 7th, I look forward to telling you all the amazing things that you helped make happen and about God’s provision for this trip. My trip payments are $1,250 due January 6^th and $1,000 due February 18^th. Thank you so much for partnering with my team and I in prayer and support!

Even though we’re separated by the miles, it’s really important to me to keep in touch with you!  Feel free to send me an email at naomigracewest@yahoo.com I pray that the life changing power of Jesus invades your life and sends encouragement, joy, and hope your way today. I’ll keep you updated on what God is doing in my life and would love to hear what’s going on in yours as well. Thank you so much.

Sending my love,
Naomi Grace West