Grave Soaking At TD Jakes’ Church? Pastor Tells Potters House To Put Their Faces on His Grave
Yesterday’s service at The Potter’s House Dallas featured TD Jakes, his son-in-law Touré Roberts, and daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts, all preaching part of the Easter sermon message when Roberts, talking about leaving a legacy, told congregants he wanted his children and their children to visit his grave when he’s dead so they can get his ‘oil’ from him.
In the context of the great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12, Roberts revealed:
[The author of Hebrews] is referencing back to those who trusted and believed and became, and ultimately their legacy is still speaking. See, I don’t know about you, but I want everything that God has for me. I want my life to still speak when I’m in the grave.
I want my children and my grandchildren and my children’s children’s children, and quite frankly, and your children and your grandchildren and their children- I want my life to still speak.
I want the oil that flowed through my life to still be flowing when I’m dead and in my grave. I want people to go to the cemetery and put their face on my grave and feel the oil flowing so much so that it will raise the dead.
Just turn to somebody and say, ‘how bad do you want it?’ I want all of it.
‘Grave soaking’ or ‘grave sucking’ is a controversial practice practiced by some charismatics where they believe if they lie on the grave of a famous dead Christian who had the anointing of God, they can acquire said anointing by ‘soaking it up.’
Bethel Church’s Bill Johnson, whose wife practiced it on occasion, explained in his book ‘Physics of Heaven.’
“There are anointings mantles revelations and mysteries that have lain unclaimed literally where they were left because the generation that walked in them never passed them on. I believe it’s…possible for us to recover realms of anointing, realms of insight, realms of God that have been untended for decades simply by choosing to reclaim them and perpetuate them for future generations.”
The Potter’s House is led by infamous Modalist TD Jakes, who has gone on record saying he doesn’t believe that Jesus is the second person of the Trinity but rather is just a “manifestation” of God.