New Beginning Festival in Sedona

We drove to Sedona for a new beginning festival on Sept. 18. Along the way, there were all kinds of festivals going on: Celtic festival, spirit Yoga and new age festivals. In this absolute beautiful place, God's creation reflects His Majesty and glory. Along the main road, there are many new age healing room, prayer rooms, and psychic places. The location of the new beginning festival is in open tent and it is on top of the mountain close to Sedona airport, where we oversee the entire city.

One of speaker of this conference specialize seasonal and geographical portal, spiritual places on earth. We have also heard that new age people like to visit Sedona because of vortex, connecting to high power and spiritual experience. As a christian, I came to Sedona for outdoor activities and tried to get away from all the new age stuff. God is reclaiming this beautiful place to be His, in this place where many other spirits are exalted, the highest power of universe is to be worshipped.

The worship led by Harvest Rock church was wonderful, the presence of the Lord is so strong. Whenever I am touched by the Holy Spirit, I would cry. The tears run down my chicks continuously. Looking up the cross, my heart saying, Lord, all of me are yours, my soul, my spirit, and my body. My God is majestic King, He reigns in this place.

One of our favorite pastors from Redding California spoke on 9/18 night. The message is great reminder for beholding the presence of God wherever we go. I love the parable he used: Holy Spirit is like dove, very sensitive and delicate, image how we would walk, talk, and act if a dove is sitting on our shoulder. It is the same way when we possess the presence of Holy Spirit, guard our heart, our mind and our talk for Holy Spirit to dwell in us. Holy Spirit empower us to walk out the life that God called us. Luke 9: 1-3 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

After a wonderful message, the pastor started to call out all kind of sickness. I stood up when he called on back pain or back problem. My foot grew in the beginning of year at a team prayer meeting, my back pain is significantly reduced since then. Just recently, it started to hurt bit more. A lady whom I did not know came over, and asked me, "can I pray for you and your legs might not be even". I replied 'yes' immediately. Then several others who sit nearby also started to pray, my left foot is slightly shorter than my right foot, my left foot started to grew when she prayed for it. God did it again and my leg grew! I was so excited! So many sickness have been called and many people raised their hands to praise God for healing their sickness and many came to stage to testify. One guy has chronic fatigue and can barely stand, walk, even sit for a long time. He jumped out of seat and run to the stage to praise God for he is healed from this muscle atrophy and he has so much strength to run around. What a glorious night to give God the glory in this 'spiritual place'.

Next day, we had another exciting service! The presence of God was ushered in with praise and worship, and many blows the Trumpet as it is Rosh HaShanah. Rosh HaShanah, Jewish new year beginning and that is why this festival is call 'new beginning festival'. Healing started to take place and strange things started to happen, gold teeth started to appear in people's mouth. A 80 + lady went to stage and opened her mouth wide and showed everyone her gold teeth. Gold crowned teeth on both sides of teeth - impeccable dental work, only from Almighty God. But why, gold teeth? I do not know, God must have sense of humor. A young African American woman came to stage to testify instant weight loss, her weight loss started from the last week (at the same conference in Las Vegas) and God told her to come to Sedona to testify. She looks like that she weighs 150 lbs, what a miracle to lose 50 lbs instantly.

The service ended about 4:00 pm. My husband went to ask for this lady's prayer on weight loss. Usually, when we are healed of certain sickness or disease, we are given the anointing to pray for others. We (both my husband and I) had our legs grew in January with symptom of back pain. The people whom we prayed for also had their legs grew when we prayed for them. As we shared with this lady and two of her friends on what God has done, she asked us to pray for her as she has server back pain. We prayed and her leg grew, two of her friends also asked for prayer, we practiced team prayer, and each time, the legs grew. We were so excited and gave God the glory. Another man came by, he was stern face and came over and said, I have bad back, bad neck and I could use some prayer. His leg grew too. His face is still clouded with sadness and depression. His face started to shine after my husband asked all of us and this man to praise God. Slowly, he started to smile.

We looked at the time, it is 6:30 pm! Praise God, we got to minister to others as soon as we received his blessings.

Physically, we were tired, we would not trade this couple of day with anything else.