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Screengrab \/ TODAY | Inset: Potter’s House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pastor TD Jakes spoke to Craig Melvin on Today<\/em><\/a>, where he opened up about the recent health crisis that left him being rushed to the hospital in the middle of a sermon. Jakes was preaching at his home church of The Potter’s House, in Dallas, TX on November 23 when he began to shake and appear to be passing out. \u201cI didn’t really realize what was happening to me onstage until I got to the hospital in an ambulance and fussing that it happened onstage, by the way, because I didn’t want it to happen, and the doctor leaned over my ear and said, ‘You had a massive heart attack,’\u201d Jakes told Melvin.<\/p>\n

Jakes informed Melvin he\u2019d had \u201cnone of the symptoms.\u201d \u201cNo numbness, no sharp pain, no anything. I just kind of drifted off to sleep,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn’t know what it was, but I almost died. \u201c His doctors would later inform him that the right side of his heart had stopped receiving blood. \u201cAs long as I was up preaching, I felt fine,” he said. “But when I sat down, the adrenaline dropped, and it exposed the fact that I was preaching with half of my heart closed through a clot. And they had to go get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the fear of the onlookers, Jakes described the moment in peaceful terms. \u201cThey had to claw the microphone out of my hand. But in my mind, I was in a quiet, peaceful, serene, white-enveloped, cloud-enveloped space. I was on my way out,\u201d he said. \u201cAfterwards in retrospect, it was such a privilege to stand on the other side, to get a little glimpse of what it might be like, or at least what it was like in that moment for me. I think it was absolutely amazing.\u201d Months after the incident, Jakes is packing his schedule with church events and a new podcast. He agreed with Melvin that he hadn\u2019t let the experience slow him down. \u201cNo, I\u2019m getting faster because one, I\u2019m older. Two, I\u2019m grateful. Three, I\u2019ve got something to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jakes also addressed the defamation suit<\/a> he filed against Duane Youngblood, who claims Jakes sexually assaulted him in the 1980s. \u201cI filed the suit because if you don\u2019t ever speak back, it just continues to go on and on and on, and I decided enough is enough,\u201d he said. The suit states that Youngblood\u2019s accusations are \u201cpatently false.\u201d Jakes called it a \u201cdesperate\u201d move by the accuser. \u201cI think that there’s a hopelessness and desperateness. Desperate people do desperate things, and they filed a motion to have it dismissed. … I don’t know what’s next. I didn’t see this coming.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor TD Jakes spoke to Craig Melvin on Today, where he opened up about the recent health crisis that left him being rushed to the hospital in the middle of a sermon. Jakes was preaching at his home church of The Potter’s House, in Dallas, TX on November 23 when he began to shake and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nTD Jakes Reveals What Caused His Mid-sermon Health Scare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastor T.D. 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