Prophet Daniel Whyte III, who has never been a Republican or Democrat, lovingly says both the prophet on the Trump right, Robert Jeffress, and the prophet on the Obama left, Jamal Bryant, are wrong because they both have supported their leaders and their parties sanctioning the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality. On the Trump right, Trump appointed a homosexual man married to a man with children to be the second most powerful man in the world — Treasurer Scott Bessent. No wonder there is so much chaos in the world. Scott Bessent finally admitted the other day that the people paying the tariffs are Americans. He ought to be arrested for committing the abomination of sodomy and he ought to be arrested for committing treason against the American people.

On the other hand, the Pied Piper progressive preacher, Jamal Bryant, in his minstrel coat of many gay colors, signaling to homosexuals and his LGBTQQIPF2SSAA+ financial backers, he is fighting for the “gays” by advocating for full acceptance of homosexuals and their friends — LGBTQQIPF2SSAA+ in the church and society. People who have discernment all know that DEI was never created for Black people to be accepted in society. It was created by people under the authority of the first Black president for homosexual people and their friends — LGBTQQIPF2SSAA+ to become permanently accepted in the fabric of America. There is no such thing as a civil rights movement against Target for DEI for Black people. This is for the “gays.” Black people, the Black church, and Black Lives Matter were used by Obama and his cohorts as a Trojan horse to bring in the acceptance of the vile sodomite/homosexual community and all their strange friends — LGBTQQIPF2SSAA+.

But again, both Obama and Trump, along with their sycophantic preacher boys, support the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality. As Clinton and Obama learned, Trump is learning, you cannot curtail the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality. You have to stop it from the get-go or you will have to cut it off at the roots; otherwise, it is going to grow Frankenstein tentacles and reach into and corrupt every part of society including the church. Whyte says as he has been saying for nearly 20 years through preaching and writing because of the compromise and collusion of Black and White pastors with presidents on the issue of the abomination of homosexuality and many other sins, God is mercifully, lovingly, and slow-rollingly dismantling and destroying America piece by piece.

Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant is midway through a fervent sermon at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside of Atlanta. Thousands of his flock are on their feet in the stadium-sized chapel as he strides back and forth across the stage in a light blue suit, his voice rising and falling. He alternates between conversation and condemnation, shifting between references to Shakespeare and Alcoholics Anonymous.

“Something’s gotta break!”

He repeats the challenge over and over, admonishing worshipers to break the habits that lead to debt, broken marriages, drugs or drinking. Then he turns to perhaps his biggest battle, an uphill, four-month-old fight to get Black consumers to break their habit of shopping at Target.

Bryant, 54, is demanding Target Corp. recant on its January decision to shift long-standing commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. He and his supporters have singled out Target because of its historic support of the Black community and Black-owned brands. The outcome is key for both the Black church and the broader civil rights movement, he says.

The pastor acknowledges that momentum is working against him and his supporters. The backlash that started with the 2023 US Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college enrollment has turned into a deep chill for corporate DEI. It set off legal challenges from conservative groups against what they say is discrimination against White workers. Now any company that sticks to or reinstates diversity initiatives risks attracting scrutiny from the White House. Goals to increase the Black workforce have been mostly shelved. Supplier diversity programs, including those at Target, have been renamed and no longer differentiate on race or gender.

A Target store in Brooklyn.Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

The decline in the Black church attendance, which has been integral to the modern Civil Rights movement for three quarters of a century, is another challenge. Less than a third of Black people said they attend services weekly last year, according to a Pew Research Center survey online and by mail. That compares with more than half attending weekly, according to a telephone survey from 2007. Younger Black churchgoers are also less likely to attend a historically Black church. With fewer people in the pews, the message doesn’t reach as far as it used to.

Bryant says a boycott is one way to energize those younger churchgoers that remain, and a successful one might help keep the church relevant.

Of all the companies that beat a retreat on DEI, Target is in an especially tricky spot. “They tried to do what everyone else is doing, but because they’re seen as such a supporter of DEI, it’s seen as more of a betrayal for them,” says Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor who teaches management and business ethics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Bryant has helped ensure Target is one of the most visible examples of the DEI pullback. But that heightened visibility makes it less likely they will recant, Taylor says.

In response to questions, Target pointed to a July op-ed in Essence magazine penned by Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell: “Our commitment to opportunity for all and inclusion is unwavering. These values are foundational to how we serve our guests, support our team and grow our business.”

Target has acknowledged the boycott contributed to a decline in first-quarter sales. And in April, Cornell met with Bryant and the pastor’s long-time mentor, Reverend Al Sharpton, for what Bryant describes as an amicable conversation that didn’t lead to any breakthroughs. He’s looking for an admission that the company was wrong to turn its back on DEI and hopes the ongoing boycott will be a drag on back-to-school sales, as students across the South begin to return this month. Target shares have fallen around a third this year.

“We will break Target,” he says. “We will break any company that doesn’t honor our dignity while they are trying to take our dollar.”

A national action against Target wasn’t initially Bryant’s goal. After seeing calls for a boycott from activists in Minneapolis, where the retailer is based, Bryant talked to church leaders in New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Washington D.C. about a limited boycott among their congregations. It would begin on Ash Wednesday and end on Easter — a 40-day Lenten fast from Target purchases.

The group had four demands. It asked Target to fulfill a commitment made in 2021 to invest $2 billion in Black businesses by the end of this year; make deposits of $250 million into 23 Black-owned banks; establish 10 retail training centers at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs); and reverse the company’s January decision to end some DEI commitments.

Target says it will complete the $2 billion investment in Black-owned businesses, nearly doubling the number of Black-owned brands on store shelves and will complete a $100 million investment in Black-led community organizations. The company also says it is “supporting thousands of students at more than 20 HBCUs.”

Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, recently suggested the administration still intended to withhold congressionally mandated funding for programs it considered inconsistent with Donald Trump’s views on diversity, equity and inclusion.Photographer: Francis Chung/Bloomberg

In the January announcement, Target said it would conclude its three-year DEI goals and won’t set them publicly going forward. These goals had been set on a rolling basis for nearly a decade. It also reconfigured a supplier diversity program into a “supplier engagement” team.

The campaign may be resonating with Black shoppers. The decline in foot traffic for Target locations in Georgia, Mississippi and Maryland, among the US states with the highest share of Black residents, outpaced the national decline by as much as double since the boycott began in March, according to research company Placer.ai, which measures visits through mobile device data. Placer.ai does not determine the reason for the foot traffic decline, which could also be due to factors such as holidays, sales or tariff uncertainty. The decline remained higher in June for Black states compared with national visits.

Target says it doesn’t comment on third-party research, but its own data on store traffic indicated a 2.4% decline in the first quarter. That’s less than the 4% estimate for the quarter in the Placer.ai estimates.

The campaign is a test for Bryant and whether he can build the Target protest into a full movement, says Valerie Cooper, an associate professor who studies the Black church at Duke Divinity School, where Bryant earned a Master of Divinity. The Black community has closely tracked the boycott so far, she says, not the least because the broader anti-Trump movement in the US is in disarray.

“There really isn’t much else out here,” Cooper says. “Many African Americans are reticent to participate in marches now, after having watched Whites re-elect Trump. The boycott is something that Black people are doing for Black people, by Black people alone.”

Like his father and grandfather, Bryant has made civil rights the cornerstone of his work; all three generations have been jailed for protesting. Bryant name-drops a dizzying number of civil rights leaders who gave him advice growing up: Rev. Jesse Jackson instilled in him a habit of regular reading; Congressman Kweisi Mfume, a former NAACP president, gave Bryant a job as the group’s national youth and college director. He says he has learned the craft alongside Sharpton at protests around the country.

Jamal Byrant has a deep history of activism. (top left) Bryant speaks during the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in 2020 in Washington, DC. (top right) Bryant accompanies the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, the Buddhist leader of South Asia to say a prayer at the spot where Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore, 2015. (bottom left) Bryant with Rev. Al Sharpton who embraces the parents of Trayvon Martin who was fatally shot in 2012. (bottom right) Bryant speaks in protest of the death Freddie Gray, who died of spinal cord injuries in police custody, in front of City Hall in Baltimore, 2015.Photographer: Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images, Alex Wong/Getty Images, Evan Vucci/Getty Images, Jim Watson/Getty Images

“I have a GED and a doctorate degree,” says Bryant, who received a PhD from the Graduate Theological Foundation. “It puts me in the position to be able to speak to people who carry both.”

He earned a political science and international studies undergraduate degree at Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Atlanta. The school has been the center of the Black civil rights movement since the 1800s. His father and mother (who died in 2024) are both well known Baptist clergy. Top elected Maryland politicians were frequent guests at the Bryant family’s Baltimore home, his father, Bishop John Bryant, says.

Growing up in the civil rights movement has helped Bryant stand out among the current generation of civil rights leaders in the Black church, says Karen Boykin-Towns, vice chair of the board of the NAACP. She says she’s known Bryant for a long time, but others are starting to “catch up” to the level of his influence.

“He’s a modern voice in the Black pulpit for sure, and he represents a new generation of Black clergy who sort of blends traditional preaching with contemporary social commentary in activism,” she says. “He’s made church more accessible, especially to the younger generation who may have not really gone to church.”

Bryant and Al Sharpton met with Target CEO Brian Cornell in April; Bryant says there were no breakthroughs.Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

To reality TV watchers, Bryant’s name is familiar as a plot point on The Real Housewives of the Potomac. His ex-wife starred in the show from its 2016 debut through the present season, and Bryant’s extramarital affair that led to a divorce became a subject of several episodes depicting a 2019 attempt at reconciliation. “God has not allowed me the grace to fail in private,” Bryant says, acknowledging his mistakes.

The stumbles haven’t deterred followers drawn to his defiance. He has nearly a million social media followers, and large numbers of young people are joining his church.

Greear Webb, entering his third year at Emory University’s law school, says he was drawn to the New Birth church by Bryant’s message and hasn’t shopped at Target since the beginning of the boycott — giving up what had been a weekly ritual.

“It’s not just secular, but it’s also biblical, giving up things that make us comfortable in the name of justice,” Webb, 24, says.

For Carlton Mackey, the founder of the “Black Men Smile” clothing line, the boycott against Target is personal. He formed the brand in 2014 after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted a wave of protests. Target, to him, was one of the few brands that showed legitimate support for the Black community, and his merchandise was on the store’s shelves during the 2024 Black History Month campaign. So when the company announced its DEI reversals, “it was like a gut punch.” After Bryant invited the entrepreneur to his church, a big sales bump followed, Mackey says.

Bryant at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia,.Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

Sustaining the fight isn’t going to be easy, says Rashad Robinson, who led the civil rights group Color of Change from 2011 until he stepped down in January. His group helped lead the effort to get company CEOs to distance themselves from Trump in his first administration, only to watch this year as many corporate leaders jockeyed for favor. He believes Bryant is having an effect because his sources at companies tell him they’re under pressure from the White House warning executives not to meet with Bryant.

“That right there is showing how much power he has built,” Robinson says. Trump won’t be around forever, he adds, and Target will have to repair the damage when he’s gone.

The White House didn’t comment on its conversations with company leaders, but it offered an opinion on Bryant’s boycott efforts. “Pastor Bryant should return to the pulpit and preach the gospel,” Harrison Fields, a White House spokesperson, says. “DEI is not holy; it’s woke, and the American people elected President Trump to eradicate it from our country once and for all.”

To Bryant, it seems clear Target is trying to divide the Black church. He was particularly critical of a $300,000 donation Target made to several large Baptist leadership groups in June. The retailer is offering some HBCU students bus rides to Target locations and store coupons to do their back to school shopping at Target, he says, based on reports from student leaders, and one of his daughters.

Target has acknowledged the boycott contributed to a decline in first-quarter sales.Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

Target says its activities are part of a longstanding history of supporting communities “as a company that values inclusivity and creating opportunity for all, and we’re proud of the work we’ve done in this space.” Target acknowledges the college bus rides, but says it’s a pre-existing program and not in reaction to the boycott.

Boycotts have a mixed track record for success. Where the decline in sales of Bud Light beer after conservatives attacked a marketing effort from Anheuser-Busch InBev that featured a transgender influencer was dramatic, credited with costing the brand its number one position in US beer sales, such clear successes are rare. Anti-DEI crusader Robby Starbuck has used the threat of a boycott, in part, to gain retreats at several companies, but he’s benefited from a broader backlash against diversity. Constellation Brands, whose Modelo Especial beer jumped to the top spot in the US after the Bud Light miscue, agreed in April to modify its DEI programs after Starbuck threatened a boycott.

Bryant says he’s aware he’s bucking the momentum set by Starbuck and Trump, and relying on rallying a Black church that is diminished in power and in some disagreement as to whether the boycott will help or hurt Black brands.

“There has to be closure around the Target campaign,” Bryant says, referring to a signal from Target that they are recanting their DEI retreat in some meaningful way. If he can win over Target, it sets a precedent. Without that, it’s just another “fly in my soup,” he says.

source: Bloomberg/Jeff Green

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DANIEL WHYTE III WAS HONORED BY BEING NAMED ONE OF THE 17 MOST NOTABLE ALUMNI IN THE HISTORY OF THE 134-YEAR-OLD TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, AND ONE OF THE 69 MOST NOTABLE ALUMNI IN THE HISTORY OF THE 53-YEAR-OLD LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA.

DANIEL WHYTE III HOLDS THE FOLLOWING DEGREES FROM THESE UNIVERSITIES:

DOCTOR OF MINISTRY (D.Min. IN PROGRESS) LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY / LYNCHBURG, VA

MASTER OF THEOLOGY (Th.M.) / LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY / LYNCHBURG, VA

MASTER OF DIVINITY (M.Div.) / LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY / LYNCHBURG, VA

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN RELIGION, B.A. / TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY / FORT WORTH, TEXAS

BACHELOR OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES / BETHANY DIVINITY COLLEGE AND SEMINARY / DOTHAN, ALABAMA / HONORS: SUMMA CUM LAUDE

DANIEL WHYTE III WAS ALSO HONORED TO SIT WITH PRESIDENTS AND WORLD LEADERS BY BEING INVITED BY THE BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION TO ATTEND THE HOMEGOING OF DR. BILLY GRAHAM.

HE IS THE ESSENCE NATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF “LETTERS TO YOUNG BLACK MEN” AND AMAZON BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF “LETTERS TO YOUNG BLACK WOMEN” (AFRICAN-AMERICAN CATEGORY.) HE HAS AUTHORED OVER 100 BOOKS.

HE IS ALSO THE FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE 20-YEAR-OLD BLACKCHRISTIANNEWS.COM (BCNN1.COM), WHICH HAS IMPACTED EVERY DENOMINATION IN THE EVANGELICAL AND CHRISTIAN WORLD AND HAS IMPACTED PRESIDENTS, THE US GOVERNMENT, AND GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD ALONG WITH IMPACTING THE PUBLIC SQUARE. BLACKCHRISTIANNEWS.COM HAS BEEN NAMED THE #1 BLACK CHRISTIAN WEBSITE AND BLOG IN THE WORLD 4 YEARS RUNNING BY THE INDEPENDENT FEEDSPOT AND IS ON THE TOP 60 CHRISTIAN NEWS SITES LIST IN THE WORLD — RED, YELLOW, BLACK, OR WHITE.

HE HAS PREACHED THE GOSPEL AND THE WORD OF GOD IN PERSON ACROSS AMERICA AND IN OVER 24 COUNTRIES TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. HE HAS PREACHED THE GOSPEL AND THE WORD OF GOD PROBABLY MORE TIMES THAN ANY MAN IN HISTORY TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE HELP OF THE INTERNET AS HE PREACHED THE GOSPEL AND THE WORD OF GOD NEARLY EVERY DAY FOR OVER 8 YEARS, LIVE AND ON-DEMAND MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY TO THIS VERY DAY. “CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS,” “EXILED ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS,” AND “PREACHING THE GOSPEL BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND JESUS CHRIST.

DANIEL WHYTE III IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE OVER-40-YEAR-OLD GOSPEL LIGHT EVANGELISTIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL AND THE OVER-37-YEAR-OLD GOSPEL LIGHT HOUSE OF PRAYER INTERNATIONAL. HE IS KNOWN WORLDWIDE AS THE PROPHET WHO PREDICTED THE CORONAVIRUS PLAGUE FOR OVER 10 YEARS BEFORE IT HIT IN RECORDED PREACHING AND WRITING. GOD ALSO LED HIM TO GUIDE THOUSANDS THROUGH THE CORONAVIRUS PLAGUE THAT KILLED OVER 20 MILLION PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE SINS IN THE JUDAS-LAODICEAN CHURCH.

DANIEL WHYTE III’S GREATEST BLESSING IN THIS LIFE IS HIS QUIVER FULL OF 10 CHILDREN — DANIELLA (DANNI), DANIEL IV, DANITA EVANGELINE, DANAE MARY-LOUISE, DANIQUA GRACE, DANYEL EZEKIEL, DANYELLE ELIZABETH BREEDLOVE, DANIELLE TEKEELA, DURAN-DANIEL AND THE FIRST DANIEL IV (DECEASED AND IN HEAVEN WITH THE LORD), ALONG WITH GRAND-CHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN.

DANIEL WHYTE III HAS BEEN UNBLISSFULLY BUT SEXUALLY SATISFYINGLY MARRIED TO HIS FIRST AND ONLY WIFE, MERIQUA WHYTE OF CHRISTIANA, JAMAICA, FOR OVER 37 YEARS  SINCE DECEMBER 19, 1987. JESUS CHRIST SAID: “AND A MAN’S FOES SHALL BE THEY OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD.” EVEN THOUGH MANY EVANGELICALS, CHARISMATICS, AND PROTESTANTS TRY TO ACT LIKE THESE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST ARE NOT A REALITY IN OUR MODERN CHRISTIANITY, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE SATANIC-DRIVEN PROSPERITY GOSPEL, OVER-POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY, WHICH IS A LIE, AND IS NOT BASED IN REALITY OR BIBLICAL TRUTH. HOWEVER, THE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST ARE TRUE FOR EVERY PERSON WHO PREACHES THE GOSPEL AND THE OUTCOMES OF THE GOSPEL, WHICH IS A CHANGED LIFE AND OPPOSITION, THEREFORE TO FAMILY, LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS, LAODICEAN-JUDAS PASTORS AND CHURCHES, THE WORLD, AND THE DEVIL. THIS IS A REALITY, YES, IN OUR PRESENT EVIL WORLD.

WHILE DANIEL WHYTE III THOROUGHLY ENJOYS HIS MARRIED LIFE BECAUSE HE DID NOT ALLOW HIS WIFE TO HAVE HER WAY AT ANY POINT AND WAS AND IS SOLIDLY AND BIBLICALLY, THE HEAD OF HIS HOUSEHOLD THROUGHOUT THE MARRIAGE, WHO HAS OFTEN TIMES QUOTED JOSHUA “AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE’RE GOING TO SERVE THE LORD” “UP IN HERE!” AND BECAUSE HIS WIFE NEVER FAILED IN THE VERY IMPORTANT AREA OF SEX, WHICH HE GOT MARRIED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE TO AVOID SINNING AGAINST GOD. HE HAS ESPECIALLY ENJOYED THE PRIVILEGE AND JOY OF RAISING HIS CHILDREN IN THE LORD VIRTUALLY BY HIMSELF AND SERVING THE LORD WITH THEM EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES, FROM THE TIME THEY WERE BORN UNTIL THEY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, BECAME ADULTS, AND MOVED ON AS GROWN PEOPLE.

HOWEVER, HIS WIFE MERIQUA WHYTE MOTIVATED BY SATAN, PHAROAH-STYLE PRIDE MIXED WITH THE WELL-KNOWN FEMALE JAMAICAN-STYLE PRIDE, STUBBORNNESS, REBELLIOUSNESS AND WITCHCRAFT HAS BEEN HIS GREATEST JUDAS ENEMY IN THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN WHAT PAUL SPOKE OF — A “MESSENGER OF SATAN” AND A “THORN IN THE FLESH.” AMAZINGLY AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD, GOD HAS USED THAT SATANIC EVIL OPPOSITION TO SPUR DANIEL WHYTE III ON TO PREACH THE GOSPEL PROBABLY MORE TIMES THAN ANY MAN ON RECORD, AND GOD HAS HONORED HIM BECAUSE HE DID NOT “HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF HIS WIFE.” WHYTE TELLS OTHER CHRISTIAN MEN TO ONLY HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD AND JESUS CHRIST — NOT TO THEIR WIVES, AS SO MANY THOUSANDS OF CHURCH MEN AND OTHER MEN HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BY PASTORS AND OTHER OLDER MEN DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS. REMEMBER WE ARE IN THIS WORLDWIDE MULTI-GENERATIONAL MESS BECAUSE ADAM HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF HIS WIFE AND NOT TO THE VOICE OF GOD.

DANIEL WHYTE III TOLD HIS WIFE MERIQUA WHYTE BEFORE THEY GOT MARRIED THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO FAMILY LIFE AS HER PARENTS DID IT FOR THEIR MARRIED LIFE WAS HELLACIOUS AND ENDED IN DIVORCE, AS DID SOME OF HER OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS, INCLUDING THE AUNT SHE WAS LIVING WITH. HE ALSO TOLD HIS WIFE WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO FAMILY LIFE AS HIS PARENTS DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS ALSO HELLACIOUS AND OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD, NOT HIS FATHER, BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, THEY NEVER GOT A DIVORCE. WHYTE TOLD HIS WIFE BEFORE THEY GOT MARRIED THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO IT GOD’S WAY ACCORDING TO EPHESIANS CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 OR NO WAY AT ALL. AND THEN HE ASKED HIS WIFE ARE YOU WILLING TO DO MARRIAGE GOD’S WAY ACCORDING TO EPHESIANS CHAPTERS 5 AND 6, AND SHE SAID YES. AND WHYTE TOLD HER BEFORE THEY GOT MARRIED THAT IF SHE DOES NOT LIVE UP TO HER END OF THE DEAL, ALL BETS ARE OFF!

BECAUSE DANIEL WHYTE III’S WIFE MERIQUA WHYTE WAS SO PROUD, UNSUBMISSIVE, STUBBORN, AND REBELLIOUS AFTER THEY GOT MARRIED, GOD LED HIM TO READ EPHESIANS CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 EVERY DAY IN THEIR FAMILY DEVOTIONS THROUGHOUT THEIR MARRIAGE. IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE MARRIAGE DANIEL WHYTE III ALSO GAVE HIS WIFE A LIST OF VERSES FOR WOMEN FROM THE WORD OF GOD FOR HER TO READ, WHICH SHE STILL READS TO THIS DAY. HE ALSO BOUGHT HER MANY BOOKS TO READ TO HELP HER BE THE WIFE GOD WANTED HER TO BE.

WHYTE REALIZED EARLY IN THE MARRIAGE THAT HIS WIFE WAS NOT A BORN-AGAIN-SAVED PERSON EVEN THOUGH SHE LIED AND SAID SHE WAS BEFORE THEY GOT MARRIED. AFTER OVER 37 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, SHE IS STILL NOT SAVED NEVER BEARING ANY FRUIT OF A SAVED PERSON TO THE POINT OF NOT EVEN WANTING TO TELL HER CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU” AND NOT WANTING TO HUG THEM WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE CHILDREN EVEN AFTER HER HUSBAND TOLD HER TO DO SO. SHE ALSO HATED THE DAILY FAMILY DEVOTIONS THAT HER HUSBAND LED AND TRIED TO HINDER THEM. SHE ALSO DEMONICALLY HATED AND TRIED TO HINDER EVERY GOSPEL PREACHING SERVICE TO THIS VERY DAY.

HOWEVER, ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THEY ARE STILL MARRIED AND DESPITE THE DEVIL CONSTANTLY WORKING THROUGH HIS WIFE TO TRY TO HINDER HIM FROM PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD, HE IS STILL PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND THE WORD OF GOD LIVE AND ON-DEMAND THAT REACHES OVER 148,800 PEOPLE PER MONTH WITH OVER 21,000 UNIQUE VIEWS PER MONTH REACHING 149 COUNTRIES PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND THE WORD OF GOD IN 2 TO 3 SERVICES A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK. GLORY BE TO GOD!

Mrs. Meriqua Whyte, the Wife of Daniel Whyte III, Gave him the Best Father’s Day Gift Ever About 10 Years Ago When She Unexpectedly and Voluntarily Apologized for the First Time to Him and Their 7 Children for Not Being the Wife, Mother, and Christian Example of the Woman She Should Have Been Over the Past 37 Years of Marriage

by Meriqua Whyte

Here’s what Mrs. Meriqua Whyte wrote ten years ago after verbally apologizing to the entire family on Father’s Day right before church service:

Over thirty years of marriage. Over Thirty years of ups and downs. Over Thirty years of trying to make it a personal thing between my husband and me. Thankfully, he did not allow me to do that and kept telling me it was between God and me—over thirty years of acting on my feelings and not on what the Bible says. Over Thirty years of refusing to obey God’s simple command to a wife — to be obedient to your husband in all things. Over Thirty years of disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty, all rooted in pride. Over Thirty years of simply not choosing to mature as a Christian.

God has been dealing with me for over thirty years now about changing my attitude and behavior as a wife, which has manifested itself in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, dishonesty, having an ungodly attitude and spirit, and simply not being the wife, mother, or example of a Christian woman that I should have been down through the years. (By the way, for those of you who may be thinking that my disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty have resulted in adultery, I will say here that I have never committed any adultery or had sex with another man besides my husband, Daniel Whyte III since I have been born.)

God kept telling me I needed to stop my rebellious and stubborn behavior, apologize to my husband and children, and get my heart right with him, my husband, and my children. He sent others my way to tell me how to behave:

1. My husband, but I didn’t want to hear it from him
2. Other Christian women speakers
3. Other preachers
4. Books and other materials, but I would not take heed

I knew what to do, but I chose not to do it. The devil had me thinking and believing, as he is having a lot of wives and mothers thinking and believing, that your relationship with your husband and how you respond to your husband, be it positive or negative, will not affect your relationship with your children and your relationship with God. I say without hesitation that this is one of the devil’s lies, and sad to say, many wives and mothers are falling for this lie.

Another lie of the devil that Christian wives are falling for is that you can still have a strong relationship with God without being submissive to your husband. Lie! Lie! Lie! There is no truth to this. I know because I have experienced this and am still experiencing this as I am going through this breaking process, which is not happening overnight.

Even throughout my years of rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride, I still kept praying the prayer I used to pray daily before I got married, “Lord, make me be exactly what You want me to be. Lord, break, make, and mold me into what you want me to be.” Well, God took that prayer seriously, and once you accept Him, He will begin the breaking process. It’s up to us how long that breaking process will take. For me, sad to say, it has taken over 30 years, and the breaking is not complete. In what way is God breaking me down right now? Well, our children have grown up; the three oldest have gone through and are still going through college and have gotten their degrees, and some are working on their second, third, and fourth degrees and are launching their careers and moving out. God slapped me into reality and truly intensified the breaking process. My husband told me before our first child was born and repeatedly while the children were young that my job was to love our children and make positive memories with them and that if I did that, I would have a wonderful relationship with them in time to come as adults. Well, I disobeyed God and my husband, who did not let up on his duties. And he has a wonderful relationship with our children, even the girls, and I don’t. However, God led me to break the day before Father’s Day finally, and while I was helping my husband get dressed to preach, I asked him if I could apologize to him and the entire family. That’s the first time I ever did that on my own. Throughout the years, he has always told me that I need to get my heart right with God, him, and my children; otherwise, I will never have the joy and peace of the Lord in my life. However, I kept on lying and denying that I was the problem.

Here is what I said to my husband and children on Saturday afternoon, June 17, 2017, the day before Father’s Day. My husband told the entire family that this was the best Father’s Day gift I have ever given to him:

“Daddy, children, I apologize for not being the wife, mother, and example of a Christian woman I should have been down through the years. I have shown nothing but pride, disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and a bad attitude and spirit toward God and my husband in front of you. My disobedience and rebelliousness have caused much unnecessary unrest and upheaval in the family. As my husband told me, things could have gone much better if I had obeyed God’s word from the beginning. Please accept my apology, and I am asking you to forgive me.”

The diminishing of peace and joy in my life down through the years I brought on myself. Not having a proper relationship with God, my husband, and my children, I brought on myself—all because I chose the disobedient route. My number one desire is to live a life of peace—peace with God, my husband, and my children. I have learned that peace will not come as long as I live in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride.

I will end this with two notes: (1) Happy Father’s Day to my husband: you have been a great husband and Father. (2) Happy Children’s Day to my children: You all have been great children. I have no complaints whatsoever against my husband and, of course, children; you have never been at fault. My bad behavior is all on me, and I’m sorry I put you through this. May God bless your lives, and I love you.

BELOW IS THE PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE THAT DANIEL WHYTE III READ IN THEIR FAMILY DEVOTIONS EVERY DAY FOR DECADES — EPHESIANS 5:22 – 6:20 THAT COVERS THE BIBLICAL DUTIES OF THE HUSBAND, THE WIFE, AND THE CHILDREN, AND IT INCLUDES HOW TO FIGHT AGAINST THE DEVIL WHO IS SEEKING TO DESTROY THE FAMILY:

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

²⁶ That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

² Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

⁶ Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

⁷ With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

⁸ Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

⁹ And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

IF YOU WERE TO DIE TODAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO: HEAVEN OR HELL? IF YOU’RE NOT SURE, “BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED” FOR JESUS CHRIST SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS EVER SPOKEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD WHEN HE SAID, “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.” READ FURTHER RIGHT HERE:

THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III

This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.

“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.

Not “Trying” But “Trusting”

“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.

What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!

What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.

The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!

May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!

One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.

If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.

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