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Mega Fest 2004 |
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| 2004-08-11 | ||||||||||
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Yet I felt the Lord urging me to attend Mega Fest 2004 so I stepped out on faith and went forth. I was struck from the beginning by the professionalism of the Mega Fest committee. I went to the website; I registered online, received up-to-date information via email and regular mail and was able to keep up with all the speakers as they were added over the months. These folks were truly the ones ordained to pull together this type of massive effort.
Be it the circus, workshops, sold-out concerts, preaching or celebrity basketball games - there was always something for everybody in the family. The youth and children had their own specialized services and workshops with plenty of time to still hang with mom, dad, grandma, granddad, auntie, uncle and cousins. There were morning and evening services. Most of the workshops (as well as the Family Expo which featured all types of vendors) were happening in the Georgia World Congress Center, which is adjacent to the Georgia Dome. The many adult workshops dealt with everything from finances (finance guru Suze Orman was a featured speaker) to Christian film (Woman Thou Art Loosed the Movie will be released soon) to health to education, being an entrepreneur to relationships issues. Yet even with all this going on, the main focus was still the Lord! I, like so many others, was not able to attend all the services or the workshops. I can only say that all the sessions I experienced had a true “ramah” Word for my life and my situation. By the end of the week, many of the people I spoke with had heard something specifically for them from the Lord. One expression I heard was, “I was blessed at Mega Fest.” A friend mentioned during the week that she’d initially thought T.D. Jakes was a “slick” preacher and I understood what she meant. But I realized right then that we as saints are sometimes not ready for real excellence in Christ. Slick is what the world does. Because of all the propaganda that the world puts out, sometimes it takes a willing available vessel, who does real ministry on a whole ‘nother level, to bring something uniquely Christian, uniquely anointed to the saints and the world at large. T.D. Jakes announced there will be a Mega Fest in Atlanta, August 3-6, 2005. DVDs, videos and CDs of Mega Fest 2004 will not go on sale for another couple of months. Until then, look for excerpts on stations that televise T.D. Jakes sermons; you will be blessed by Mega Fest. By: Reyna Gaar - Feedback |
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Mega Fest is the combination of three established conferences: Woman Thou Art Loosed, Manpower and Youth 3-D Experience. Held last week (June 23-26) in Atlanta, Georgia, those four days were jam-packed with preaching, workshops, fellowship, revelation, deliverance, prophecy, confirmation, hope and a Word from the Lord. 
At the opening ceremony, you could feel the excitement as the Georgia Dome (home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons) slowly filled. This fantastic venue seats about 70,000 – there were at least 50,000-60,000 of us gratefully worshipping, weeping, dancing, shouting, and praising at any given service. There really wasn't a bad seat in the house because there were screens all over the Dome. (There were even TVs in the bathrooms). The service was shown on satellites over 250 stations around the world as well as prisons as far away as Bermuda. 
