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In an emotional and triumphant return to the pulpit on New Year's Eve, Bishop T.D. Jakes, founder of The Potter's House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, revealed to congregants that the "slight health incident" he suffered on stage while preaching on Nov. 24 required emergency surgery to keep him alive.
Jakes, who said he struggled with a "fair amount of anxiety" before walking out on stage to thunderous applause and cheers from his adoring congregants, had initially appeared reticent to divulge too many details about the incident that forced him to undergo several hours of surgery at Southern Methodist Hospital. But he shared enough to convey that doctors told him that had his team waited five minutes longer to get him medical care, he would have been "DOA."
"I'm so grateful to the Lord," Jakes said. "To be perfectly honest, in the spirit of my daughter, I'm going to be very transparent. I had a fair amount of anxiety about walking on this stage standing in the same spot that I almost died in," Jakes said. "In fact, I think I did, but God, in His infinite wisdom and His great grace, brought me back to this same spot."
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Jakes, who said he struggled with a "fair amount of anxiety" before walking out on stage to thunderous applause and cheers from his adoring congregants, had initially appeared reticent to divulge too many details about the incident that forced him to undergo several hours of surgery at Southern Methodist Hospital. But he shared enough to convey that doctors told him that had his team waited five minutes longer to get him medical care, he would have been "DOA."
"I'm so grateful to the Lord," Jakes said. "To be perfectly honest, in the spirit of my daughter, I'm going to be very transparent. I had a fair amount of anxiety about walking on this stage standing in the same spot that I almost died in," Jakes said. "In fact, I think I did, but God, in His infinite wisdom and His great grace, brought me back to this same spot."
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TD Jakes reveals he almost died in emotional return to pulpit after surgery
In an emotional and triumphant return to the pulpit on New Year s Eve, Bishop T D Jakes, founder of The Potter s House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, revealed to congregants that the slight health
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