Gospel Light Society International Whyte House Early Morning Devotional Prayer & Reading of the Old Testament: Job 19 — “For I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” — Daniel Whyte III
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Turn in your Bibles to Job 19. Job 19.
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Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, welcome to the Gospel Light Society International Whyte House early morning devotional prayer service, which we have been having, really, for 47 years now, without a break.
I want to pay a special tribute to my daughter, Daniella (Danni) Whyte, producer and editor of the Prayer Motivator Minute podcast and the Prayer Motivator devotional podcast. And I want to pay a special tribute to Danyelle Elizabeth Whyte, my baby daughter, who is the producer and editor of the Gospel Light Society International Whyte House Reading of the Bible — something we have been doing together for many years. And then God spoke to my heart that other people need this, and we started basically having devotions for others as well.
For those of you who do not know me, my name is Daniel Whyte III — Whyte spelled with a Y.
And so I want to share with you this morning, after reading Job 19 already, Job’s most famous quote. Job’s most famous quote in the book of Job: “For I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Job chapter 19, part 1.
“Then Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with His net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths. He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from off my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath He removed like a tree. He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His enemies. His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.”
And this, too, will happen to you at certain times in your life — hopefully just one time — if you’re determined to stand for God and Jesus Christ, and to obey God, and be peculiar, as the Bible calls us, the peculiar people.
“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.”
Florence. Blue. HB, so glad to see you again. I thank you all for the gifts that you’re giving to God — in the hearts, in the likes, in the love. Max, Theon, Bradley, Freeman, I thank God for all of you being here. Sister Bliss, Deacon Moab, Deacon Atkins, Deacon Karamba, I thank God for your presence, and I thank God for the great day God gave us on yesterday.
“I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.”
Isn’t it interesting how people change on you when things may not be going as well as they used to? How people who used to look up to you and respect you turn against you. “He gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s sake of my own body.”
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“Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.”
And most people will not have pity on you or favor you until they have gone through the same thing. Just keep on living, my fellow Jobs, and you will go through troubles, tribulations, and trials, and the forsaking of family and friends, if you stand for God and Jesus Christ.
“Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!”
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And Holy Father God, thank You for impressing upon my heart to pray for all of these dear people who are with me early in the morning — over 1,500 with us at this time. Lord, I pray for each and every one. I thank You for them. I thank S3B for sharing this live. Much appreciated.
Pardon me, everyone, for a minute before I pray. Pardon me, everybody — I had to do a little something that I forgot to do. But I’m not going to forget to pray for you.
Holy Father God, we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and spiritual, family and life, financial and material, protection and provision upon Rodney Edwards, William Lewis, Dojo, David, Mark, Sister Bliss, Deacon Moab, Deacon Atkins, Deacon Karamba, and all of the people who come on a regular basis, and all of the thousands who have come down through the years. N.E. Wren, Georgia. Love, Celie, Donald Rogers. Lord, I pray these blessings upon everybody — David, all of my children, my quiverful: Daniella (Danni), Daniel, Danita, Danae, Daniqua, Danyel-Ezekiel, Duran-Daniel, Danielle-Tekeela, Danyelle-Elizabeth, Kwaiazia, and all of my offspring.
And Lord, I pray for salvation and spiritual, family and life, financial and material, protection and provision, mental and physical blessings, Lord, upon everybody who is here this morning, and their families, their spouses, their children, their grandchildren. For Jesus Christ’s sake, Lord, please forgive us all of our sins, our faults, and our failures, as Christian people. Save those who are not Christian people. By the power of Your Holy Spirit, open their blinded eyes and stop their deaf ears and save their souls.
Lord, we praise You and thank You for Deacon Loyal Alexander being with us once again, who has been with us many times. Baran, Tom DeMunas. Lord, I pray that You will help these folks get ready to go, and on their way to do what You have called them to do.
And Lord, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ —
The long one. The long one. Mickey, Lady, we thank God for all of you. Hold on a second there. BigoLive, make sure you’re able to stay on here — I just got a warning. Bear with me. I didn’t think it was going to be this difficult. I’ve done this many times before.
Pardon me, everybody. The old man finally got it.
James Hardy, so glad to have you again, our friend from Georgia, all about Jesus. Good morning to you, Deacon Loyal Alexander. God bless you as well. Emily, so glad to have you. Tommy and Ted Drake.
So Holy Father God, I do pray — thank You, Lord, for allowing me to finally get that squared away. I pray that, Lord, You would lead, guide, and direct all of us in the way that You want us to go throughout this day. Order our steps and direct our ways. Help all of us, Lord, who are saved and born again, to pray without ceasing throughout this day, to pray always — for, Lord Jesus Christ, You gave us a parable to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
God bless you, James Hardy, who says, “Peace and love, brother.” And that’s how we all ought to be, and that’s what we all ought to be about, as born-again, saved Christians: to be about peace and love, and love and peace.
Meeks, Professor Meeks, God bless you for being here.
And so, as we continue to read the Word of God — Lord, speak to our hearts. “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.”
Holy Father God, we pray in the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Lord, we thank You for this day, and for bringing us here to pray and to hear Your Word early on Monday morning, to start the day off right and to start the week off right. Forgive us of our sins, our faults, and our failures, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Cleanse our hearts, minds, souls, spirits, and consciences in the precious blood of Christ, and fill us with Your Holy Spirit. Open Job chapter 19 to us today, Lord, and give us grace to hear what You say, and grace to do it. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray, and for His sake. Amen.
We’re going a little bit further on this early Monday morning than we did last time.
Job has lost his children, his wealth, pretty much lost his wife, who turned on him and said, “Curse God and die,” since “I can’t go to Neiman Marcus anymore.” Isn’t it amazing how so many wives have turned against their good husbands? And I have shared this with you before, and I’ll say it again now: if a man is a born-again, saved man, you have a very good man. And you may not have his back as you should, woman, Jezebel — but I assure you, he will have your back. Now, that’s what I’ve seen down through the years. Most Christian men are not petty, and they will have your back even if you have to go your separate ways, and he has to go and sit on the rooftop or sit out in the wilderness. He’s going to do right by you. It’s just in him. He’s not a simp. He’s not going to be a simp with you, I hope — but the Christ in him: he’s going to have your back. He’s going to do the right thing, sometimes even when he doesn’t want to do it, because you have not been worth a flip as a wife and a mother. But there’s something on the inside of him that’s going to move him to do right by you — in some cases, even if he has to separate from you because you’re so full of hell and the devil.
Okay. And evidently, Job’s wife was not the greatest wife, because she enjoyed having all of those children. Deacon Karamba, God bless you. T.T., God bless you. Mark, God bless you. She enjoyed all of the sex that Job gave her. She enjoyed having all of those wonderful children that Job gave her. She enjoyed the wealth. She enjoyed being well known, with probably the leading man in the region, for many years.
Job has lost his children. He basically lost his wife. Any woman who will curse her husband and tell him to die — “Curse God, Job, and die, because we can’t go to Neiman Marcus. I have lost all of my credit, credit cards. I don’t have any money, and I’m sitting out here on the ground with you” — she didn’t say that when things were going well. And may God deliver all men from women like this: they’re with you in the good times, when things are going well, and then they forsake you when things are not going well. God deliver all men from such wretches, and evil, Judas, Jezebel women. May God deliver you, my brother.
Job, in chapter 19, has lost his children, his wealth, and his health. The devil took it all away from him. It was not God. God allowed it to test him. By the way, Job’s wife failed. Job succeeded. He wasn’t perfect, but he succeeded. He did not lose his integrity, and he didn’t lose his mind talking about cursing God. He didn’t listen to his wife, thank God. And God knew he was not going to listen to his wife and curse God. See, so we had two entities here wanting Job to curse God: the devil, who told God, “I’ll make him curse You to Your face,” and then the devil got in his wife, and she even told him, “You need to curse God and die.” What kind of God would cause you to lose all of your children, all of your wealth, all of your stocks and bonds, all of your cattle, “and my Neiman Marcus card where I bought my silk dresses, Job”? Okay.
Then his friends have come to comfort him. May God deliver us from the miserable comforters of Job. How many of you know that if you’re going through something, there are some people who you really don’t want them to come? Because all they’re doing is wanting to come to find out what happened and gawk at you, okay? You really don’t want them to come.
And I say this about the Funeral Meisters as well — people who sit around waiting for people to die, and then playing psychological games with family members, and seeing who is going to come and who is not going to come, and who we want to come and who we don’t want to come, and all kinds of satanic, demonic, witchcraft foolishness from hell. And so that’s why I’m telling people: I think we need to cool it on all of these big, expensive funerals, ladies and gentlemen. Okay? You want to honor your father and mother, and your grandmother and your grandfather, and whoever else may die? You honor them in this life. Now, if you did not listen to me carefully: if you did not honor them in life, what in the world are you doing at the funeral? For what? I said, for what, you hypocrite? If you were not right with them in life, stay away from the funeral.
Now, we have the Funeral Meisters, and I believe their generation is dying off — these Funeral Meisters, like vultures. They play psychological religious games with people about people dying. Okay? It’s a dark art that they do. And so I’m encouraging Christians, particularly — okay, the traditions that have come out of that down through the years, particularly in the South, need to cease. We got people being shot and killed at funerals. People who have not been in touch in 40 years showing up at the funeral, feeling some kind of way. That’s ridiculous. And you have not spoken to the dead in 45 years. You’re a liar. Your feet ain’t made, and your heart pumps peanut butter. “I’m coming to show respect.” No, Negro — show respect while the person is living.
Thousands of people across the South playing these demonic games, even in my own family. Won’t let the people know that you’re sick, so you can probably make amends and forgive each other, and meet up while you’re still alive, and pray with one another. No — you want to pop on them that so-and-so died, and they expect you to jump on a plane and go to the funeral. Sandra Wright. That’s insane, people. There are people willing to die and go to hell to spite you, without you being told. “Oh no, don’t tell him — he’s going to judge me.” “Oh no, don’t tell her.” You’re not speaking in life, and you’re willing to die without saying bye. The devil is a lie. You’re willing to die and go out into eternity. You’re so proud. You’re so stubborn. You’re so rebellious. And in most cases, nobody cares about what little money you have, a little car you have, a little house you have.
I told my dad and mom, when God called me to preach and I was traveling around the world: “I may not get back. I’m saying bye now.” I told my parents bye well before they died. I told them, “I love you, and I appreciate what good you did. And whatever you all have, whatever wealth you have, give it to my other siblings. God will take care of me.” That’s what I told them. And some of you need to make those arrangements. This is why, right here. Some of you need to make those arrangements. If you’re going to be living in Timbuktu, and you were raised in Podunk, Kansas — yeah, I don’t need this, just that part, there’s that book — and you know you’re going to be gone for years, go ahead and tell your parents, and tell your grandparents and your aunties: “I love you. Thank you for all you’ve done for me.” Hug their neck, and go ahead and make it clear: “Don’t try to preserve anything for me” — unless they’re filthy rich, and they can peel off a million dollars while you go ahead and take it, and they can send you that. But if they’re struggling, if they’re struggling and they barely have enough to pay their bills, don’t sit around hoping that they’re going to leave you something behind. You’re the oldest child; you can make it on your own. Let your siblings have it. Okay? Be bigger than that.
So Job’s miserable friends have come to comfort him, and believe it or not, we all have some miserable friends. See, it’s a part of people’s human nature to want to see you fail. I know it’s hard for you to understand. It’s a part of people’s human nature. They want to see you fail. The only time they’re interested in talking to you, or seeing you, is if they heard you failed, or there was some kind of issue, some kind of problem in your life — or they love it — and then they show up. Then they call. But when everything is going well, they don’t want to call you, because you’re not failing like they are. So the comfort of Job’s miserable comforters has turned into accusation — accusing him of doing evil against God. They have no back knowledge of him ever doing evil. They knew he was not perfect. But God said that Job eschewed evil — he pushed evil away. And you’ve got to be born-again saved to push evil away.
In this chapter, Job answers them, and he says something that has carried suffering saints for thousands of years. First, hear how low he has sunk. Verse 13 says, “He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily, truly, estranged from me.” Have you ever had that experience? Well, if you’re a child of God and you’re born-again saved, you just keep on living. Verse 17: “My breath is strange to my wife.” There were issues there in the marriage. His own servants will not answer him. The little children despise him. Everybody he counted on has walked away from him because of what has happened.
And then, right in the middle of that darkness, Job lifts his head and says the words we still sing today. Job’s greatest quote — and it is his greatest quote, because it is direct revelation and inspiration from God, out of nowhere, out of the black and dark night — Job said: “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” Nobody else said that but Job. Verse 26: “And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself.” What a revelation, deep in the book of Job. “And mine eyes shall behold, and not another.” Ladies and gentlemen, that is the whole chapter in one sentence: everything else failed Job, but his Redeemer liveth.
Shall we pray?
Holy Father God, I pray — we pray — in the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ: help us to walk in the strength of those words throughout this day, no matter how difficult the day may be, no matter if family members forsake us, no matter if our friends forsake us. We know we have a Friend indeed, Holy Father God, in You, and in Your Holy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, Lord, help us to lean on the everlasting arms. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray, and for His sake. I pray also, Lord, for the salvation of the lost, revival of the saved. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray, and for His sake. Amen.
Dear friend of mine, do you know your Redeemer? His name is Jesus Christ. He suffered, He bled, and He died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose from the dead. He paid your sin debt. What is your sin debt? Well, God’s holy Word says, “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” In other words, you owe God a debt that you cannot pay, because you have lied. You have lived a lie. You have stolen things. You have disobeyed the Ten Commandments of God. You have lusted after people and things. You have coveted in your heart people and things. You have dishonored your parents. You have dishonored God by taking His name in vain, and lying on Him. You have broken the Ten Commandments of God. You’ve disobeyed God. “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
And then, everybody — this is for everybody, too — the Bible says, “The wages of sin is death.” The reason why I’m going to die and you’re going to die is because of our wicked and evil sins that we’ve committed against God, by choice and by nature, in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls, and in our spirits. The payment for sin is death. And I don’t care who you are, death is frightening, and it is a punishment. But not only that, Danny, Melissa — after death, you will go to hell, and to the lake of fire, to be tormented forever, because of your sins that you committed against God.
You say, “Well, preacher, I just can’t believe that.” Well, the same Bible that tells you that you’re going to die — you believe that, don’t you? The Bible says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” “The wages of sin is death.” Do you believe those verses? You have to, because they have been proven to you on this side of the grave. On the other side of the grave, you’re going to hell if you reject Jesus Christ, if you do not believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Okay?
For Jesus Christ said, in this way, the most important words in the history of the world. 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.” That is the good news. So believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Pray and ask Him to save you, because the Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
If you want to be saved today, ask God to save you, believing in His Son, Jesus Christ, who suffered, bled, and died on the cross some 2,000 years ago for your sins, was buried, and rose from the dead. Follow me in the sinner’s prayer. Repeat after me, phrase by phrase, and mean it from your heart:
“Holy Father God, have mercy and grace upon my soul, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Please forgive me of all of my sins, my faults, and my failures, as I now believe in You, Lord Jesus Christ. Please come into my heart and into my spirit, and save my soul from the burning hell, and from the power of sin. And help me to repent of my sins. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Help me to change. Help me to change permanently, and to follow You in the newness of life. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray, and for His sake. Amen.”
If you prayed that prayer, congratulations on doing the most important thing in life. Here are the next steps for you.
Find a Bible-believing church with a good reputation in your town. And the best place to do that is at the large convenience store that’s on the way out of town, where most people have to go by to go to work. Go there around 5 o’clock in the morning, while it’s dark. Sit there and sip your coffee while others come and get their coffee and donuts, and sausage and biscuits, and all of that. These are the salt of the earth people. These are the hardworking people. They do not play, and they don’t have time to play. Ask them where a good Bible-believing church is, and they will tell you, even if they don’t go. You have to walk and talk, because they’re on the move. And so, on their way back to their truck with their goodies, and to put gas in the truck, ask them, “Where’s the best church at in town?” And they will tell you. They may not go — they’re not the church-going kind, in most cases — but they have a wife who goes. Her life has been transformed. She’s a better wife because she knows Jesus Christ and is going to a good Bible-believing church. Go to that church. Take your family and friends with you. Don’t go by the reviews — in some cases, they were made up. Go by what that man told you who was on his way to work. And set up an appointment. Make sure somebody is with you. Do not go to any church by yourself today — I never thought I would ever have to say that. Never sit in a pastor’s office by yourself, especially you women — and, sad to say, especially you men as well, today. Let them know you got saved, how you got saved, and how that now you need to be baptized, and they will set you up.
Number two: pray every day, three times a day. Don’t play. Pray until the day you die — until you see God and Jesus Christ face to face. Because you will.
And number three: read the Bible, along with prayer. Try to get in three chapters a day, but if you can’t do that, at least get in one. Go through a book of the Bible. Determine to do it, and God will help you. Start with the Gospel of John, and then read the entire New Testament. Read the entire Old Testament.
So good to see you, Deacon Moab. May God bless you. Ray Smith, may God bless you. One Queen, may God bless you. Alphonse, may God bless you for being here as well. As Lindsay, I think DJ, Jacqueline, Carol, N.E. Wren from Georgia, still hanging in there with us. Ray Smith says, “Thank you, blessings.” Okay.
So do those three things. And then number four: obey the Bible that you read. Jesus Christ said that “if ye love Me, keep My commandments.” And then finally, be a witness for the Lord. Praise the Lord, Deacon Moab. Thank you so much.
Be a witness for the Lord. If you are a shy person, that’s okay. Contact Fellowship Tract League — fellowshiptractleague.org — and order the sample pack, and order 100 tracts. My favorite tract from them is “I Must Tell You This.” Order that tract. And as you go throughout life, just like Johnny Appleseed, plant those seeds — the Gospel seeds — with people. Leave them in public bathrooms. Leave them in libraries, library books. Leave them as tips — not as tips; with a tip. Amen? Okay. And don’t be cheap and then leave the Gospel pamphlet. Okay? Give 20% at least in the tip, and have the 20% hanging out of the tract, and give it to the person personally. Don’t leave it on the table. All right?
So everybody: pray, read the Bible, witness for the Lord, for those of you who got saved. God bless you, dear friends. Until next time, Lord willing, I’ll see you soon — tomorrow at least, if not again today. And pray without ceasing, my dear friends. Remember the motto of the Marines: Semper Fidelis — be always faithful to the Lord. And remember the motto of the Space Force and the Air Force: Semper Supra — always above. Keep your heart and mind stayed on the Lord above, and He’ll keep you in perfect peace.
God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you. And because God sheds His love abroad in all of our hearts who get saved, I love you, too, in the Lord.
May God bless you, dear friends. Until next time, I’ll see you soon, God willing. God bless you, Kayla, for being here with us. Horace, Deacon Moab, Ray Smith, Deacon Loyal Alexander, Deacon Karamba, Fry, N.E. Wren, Georgia — thank you for hanging in there with us the whole time. Ronnie, and everybody, Carol, Fitz, everybody with us today — may God bless you and keep you. I pray that you’ll have a wonderful day in the Lord, as you have started the day with the Lord. Lord willing, we’ll see you next time.
Daniel Whyte III has been preaching the Gospel for over 46 years. He is the founder and President of the over 42-year-old Gospel Light Evangelistic Society International, Pastor of the over 38-year-old Gospel Light House of Prayer International, and Founder, President, and Editor-in-Chief of the over 22-year-old Black Christian News One (BCNN1.com)—reaching millions with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, discipleship preaching, and the whole counsel of God around the world by any means necessary — “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and Preaching the Gospel by any means necessary.
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 in Fort Worth, Texas, and one of the 69 most notable alumni in the history of the 53-year-old Liberty University in 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 the 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 influenced presidents, the U.S. government, governments around the world, and the public square. BlackChristianNews.com has been named the #1 Black Christian website and blog in the world for four years running by the independent Feedspot and is on the list of the top 60 Christian news sites 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 to millions of people around the world with the help of the internet, preaching live and on-demand multiple times a day for over ten years, to this very day. His mottos are “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any means necessary,” all 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 more than 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-Jezebel-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 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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 as if these words of Jesus Christ are not a reality in our modern Christianity—primarily because of the Satanic-driven prosperity gospel and an over-positive philosophy, which is a lie not based in reality or biblical truth—the words of Jesus Christ are true for every person who preaches the Gospel. The outcomes of the Gospel are a changed life and opposition from family, lukewarm Christians, Laodicean-Judas pastors and churches, the world, and the devil. This is a reality 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—often quoting 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. He served 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.
However, his wife, Meriqua Whyte—motivated by Satan, with a Pharaoh-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, that Satanic evil opposition has spurred Daniel Whyte III on to preach the Gospel probably more times than any man on record. 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 have been taught by pastors and other older men throughout 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.
Before they were married, Daniel Whyte III told his wife Meriqua Whyte that they would not do family life as her parents did, because 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 they would not do family life as his parents did, because it was also hellacious and out of order since 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 they were 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. Whyte told her before they got married that if she did not live up to her end of the deal, all bets were 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 their 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. His ministry 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’s Apology to her Husband and Their 7 Children for not Being a Biblical Wife or Mother
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.
Here is 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 our problems 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 throughout 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 was 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:
My husband, but I didn’t want to hear it from him.
Other Christian women speakers
Other preachers
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 think and believe—that your relationship with your husband and how you respond to him, whether positive or negative, will not affect your relationship with your children or 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 it as I go 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, have gotten their degrees, and some are working on their second, third, and fourth degrees, 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 as adults in the time to come. 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 finally break down the day before Father’s Day, 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 needed to get my heart right with God, him, and my children; otherwise, I would 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 throughout 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.”
I brought the diminishing of peace and joy in my life on myself throughout the years. 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, my 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.
Ephesians 5:22 – 6:20 (KJV)
Below is the passage in the Bible that Daniel Whyte III read in their family devotions every day for decades. It covers the biblical duties of the husband, the wife, and the children, and includes how to fight the devil, who seeks 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.
The Gospel in a Nutshell
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.”
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.” (John 3:16)
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The Most Important Question in the World: Have You Been Twice Born?
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?
“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 everywhere to repent.”
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent and to receive Christ as Savior 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, save my soul, and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me repent of my past sins. Help me turn from my old, evil life and follow You into a new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
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