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From Ashes to the Throne: When Family and Friends Fail You, Faith Looks Up to God (Job 16:20-22), with Daniel Whyte III
The Remnant’s Cry: Standing Firm When Family, Friends, and Foes Turn Against You
My Friends Scorn Me, My Eyes Pour Out Tears to God: Finding Hope in Job’s Despair
Job’s Protest of Innocence: Your Heavenly Witness in Times of Betrayal
When Everyone Forsakes You: The One Mediator Between God and Man
From Scorn to Supplication: Turning Earthly Rejection into Heavenly Connection
The Quiver Full: Finding Strength in Spiritual Legacy Amidst Persecution
Faithful Few: The 7,000 Who Have Not Bowed the Knee
Tears to God: The Power of Prayer When Human Comforters Fail
The Way of No Return: Preparing for Eternity While Living in a Fallen World
Spiritual Warfare in the Church: Exposing Hypocrisy and Embracing Truth
The Evangelical Files: A Call for Accountability and Repentance
Mediator Between God and Man: Christ Our Advocate in Times of Trial
Mortality and Mercy: Job’s Hope and Our Need for Salvation
From Earthly Scorn to Heavenly Witness: Lessons from Job’s Suffering
RAW SERMON TRANSCRIPT: From Ashes to the Throne: When Family and Friends Fail You, Faith Looks up to God (Job 16:20-22), with Daniel Whyte III
TEXT: “My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.” — Job 16:20 (KJV)
🕊️ OPENING GREETING
We thank God for everybody who has gathered around the world—over 2,000 with us at the early part of this service. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, family, friends, and foes—and yes, even foes in the family. However, I do thank God for my quiver full of children who have stood with me throughout their lives in the gospel ministries. That’s the main thing we did together throughout our lives: serve the Lord. All of my children are grown now, and they have all been a blessing to me down through the years as I have served the Lord.
⚔️ FACING ENEMIES ON BOTH SIDES
And with enemies in the church—the White evangelical church, the White and Black evangelical church, and also the White and Black progressive church—I have enemies on both sides. The evangelical church is mad because I have put together a book and I run articles with the preface titled The Evangelical Files. My point is in the church—yes, the so-called evangelical church, White and Black, and the progressive church, White and Black—we need to be more concerned about the evangelical child rape files than the Epstein files. In fact, we can’t say anything about the Epstein files unless we deal with the evangelical files. And shame on well-known pastors who have hidden the satanic and demonic activities of pedophiles in the church.
I mentioned yesterday, I believe there’s a demonic connection between the Epstein files and the evangelical files. I also said yesterday that there is some kind of financial incentive in the pedophile range in this country and around the globe. Sad to say, there’s more to it. More is driving it than what people think.
Then I have some Black progressives and White progressives who hate me because I didn’t go along to get along with the satanic foolishness in sanctioning the abomination of homosexuality and all of the letters of the alphabet. White and Black progressives hate me in the church and are trying to counsel me because I have never gone along with their sanctioning of the abomination of homosexuality and all of the alphabet—LGBTQ plus furries and people identifying as cats and dogs—and all of this demonic foolishness that has upended America through presidents and politicians and preachers, which has wreaked havoc in America and has turned this nation upside down.
And then the world hates me as well, as even some folks in AI, because I have called them out. I have called some leaders of AI out and have told them that we need moral—we really need godly and moral people leading AI. We really don’t need a man married to a man to lead AI.
And so I have a good number of folks angry with me who are doing forms of persecution against me. King David said, “When I speak”—and King David said, “I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.” And that’s just how it is, ladies and gentlemen.
🙏 THE POWER OF PRAYER
But I do thank God for my quiver full of children who have helped me in the ministry down through the years to keep on keeping on. Over 47 years this year. And so we give God the glory, the praise, and the honor.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the combined service of the Gospel Light Evangelistic Society International, slash White House Prayer Service, Prayer Devotional Service.
📜 THE PRAYER
Holy Father God, we pray in the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallowed be Your name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
And Lord, we praise You, and we thank You for Your love, Your grace, and Your mercy. We praise You, and we thank You for Your Holy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered, bled, and died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead on the third day.
And Holy Father God, where we have sinned against You as Christian people—for the truth of the matter is, Lord, because we have disobeyed You as people who claim to be Christians, we’re the biggest problem in this country. We are the Jonahs that ought to be cast off the ship. And Lord, for Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon every one of us who name the name of Jesus Christ and claim to believe in Jesus Christ, but have disobedience and sin in our lives.
Lord, I pray for my children in this regard. I pray for myself in this regard. I pray for Sister Bliss and her family, Deacon Moab and his family. I pray for the healing of Deacon Moab’s brother. I pray for the healing of Deacon Atkinson.
Lord, as we prepare to read Your holy word, prepare our hearts. Prepare our hearts, our spirits, and minds to receive Your holy word—and not just to do something, not just to read Your holy word, but to get something from it that will transform our lives and help us to be more obedient to You.
And Holy Father God, deliver each and every one of us this morning—we name the name of Christ—from temptation, evil, and sin. And grant us, Lord, Your grace and Your strength and the power of Your Holy Spirit to love right, to live right, to think right, to do right, to act right, and to do that which is pleasing in Your sight.
And Holy Father God, I pray for the salvation and spiritual, family and life, financial and material, protection and provision, mental and physical blessings upon Faith Brown, Renee Parker, Jan, Jennifer, David, Cool Kid, Marcus, Mark—so good to have you—Upchurch Judy, so glad to have you today, Jeff Ford, Daryl, Bettina.
And Lord, I pray that You will do the same for all of my quiver full of children and grandchildren, Lord, today, and help all of us to serve You fervently throughout this day, to pray without ceasing, to be sober-minded, vigilant, and watchful. Surround us with Your protection and a band of Your holy angels and a wall of Your holy fire.
And in a very serious sense, Lord, help all of us who are saved and born again to somehow, by Your grace, humble ourselves, pray, seek Your face, and turn from our wicked ways and repent of our wicked sins.
And Holy Father God, we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that indeed You will help us to humble ourselves, pray, seek Your face, and turn from our wicked ways and repent of our wicked sins and get back to You—our first love on an individual basis. And help us all to sing the song: “It’s me, it’s me, it’s me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.”
And so, Holy Father God, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray for Mrs. Marika White, my wife of over 39 years and my legal sex partner for over 38 years—we’re 39 this year. And so, Lord, I thank You for a holy marriage and holy matrimony.
I do pray for my wife’s pure salvation, for she is my biggest Judas and my biggest enemy in this world. I know people don’t want me to say that because they’ve been receiving so many lies from the evangelical pastors and the evangelical pastors’ wives and the evangelical churches, who are masters of lies and are the biggest hypocrites and phonies and Pharisees and Sadducees in the nation.
But we do thank You, Holy Father God, for the remnant. We thank You, Holy Father God, for the 7,000 who have not bowed the knee to the totem pole of debauchery and abominations. We thank You, Lord, for the faithful few—the remnant church.
And Lord, I do pray that You will, in the name of Jesus Christ, cast the devil and the demons of hell and the satanic, demonic spirit of Judas, Jezebel, Sanballat, and Tobias out of my wife, Mrs. Marika White, and out of her mother, aunts, and siblings who want me to stop preaching.
And Holy Father God, I also pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that You will give all of us sweet victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil.
And Lord, help people to realize that they do not have to shout and run around the church to get saved or to be saved or to show themselves to be spiritual. They do not have to have an outburst of emotionalism to be saved. Jesus Christ never did that. Paul never did that. Peter never did that.
And Holy Father God, as we prepare to read Your holy word, just a short amount today, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the peace of Jerusalem and for the salvation and the protection of the Israelites. And I pray for the salvation and the protection of all Gentile people—red, yellow, black, and white—for we are indeed precious in Your sight because You proved that by living and suffering and bleeding and dying on the cross of Calvary for our sins.
And Holy Father God, I pray for all Christians who are being persecuted. Protect us all, surround us all with a band of Your holy angels and a wall of Your holy fire. Cover us in the precious blood of Christ and make us to be whiter than snow on the inside.
And Holy Father God, I do pray that You will deliver every one of us who name the name of Christ from the messengers of Satan and the thorn-in-the-flesh people—the thorn-in-the-flesh people, which Mrs. Marika White has been down through the years.
And so, Holy Father God, thank You for leading me to tell the truth and to be transparent about it. And some church women don’t want me to tell the truth because I’m telling the truth about them as well—evil towards their husbands and towards their children.
And then, Holy Father God, I pray that You will deliver my children, me, Deacon Moab, Sister Gypsy Heart, Sister Bliss, Deacon Atkins, and others here today and who are here throughout the week—in the thousands, Lord—deliver us from all of our distresses and afflictions.
And Holy Father God, I pray that You will bless and protect my children—my quiver full of children and grandchildren—myself, Deacon Moab, Sister Gypsy Heart, Sister Bliss, Deacon Atkins, Brother Moab’s family, Sister Gypsy Heart’s family, Sister Bliss’s family, Deacon Atkins’ family, and everybody’s family represented here today.
Protect us, Lord, from persecutors and murderers who have made it clear they want me murdered and they want to kill another one of my children.
Thank You, Lord, for allowing things to be as well as they are, knowing that they could be worse. Thank You, Lord, for remembering mercy, love, and grace towards us.
Lord, we know about the family—we heard about the family this morning where a mother and her daughter and her two grandchildren were on their way on a road trip. And somehow they stopped at a Chick-fil-A to get something to eat. They got into an argument, and the 21-year-old daughter took out a knife and stabbed her mother in the Chick-fil-A parking lot 10 times and then drove off with the children. So, Holy Father God, we all know that’s the work of the devil. And we pray for the healing of that grandmother, that mother, and we pray for the salvation of that daughter and for the protection of those children.
I’m amazed that Deacon Moab is still with me through this rather long prayer this morning. I know he’s a busy man. And Sister Gypsy Heart is still with us as well. So appreciative to You, God and Jesus Christ, because most people don’t see the significance of a prayer time like this, but it’s really the most important thing I do.
And so, Holy Father God, as we close this time of prayer, I have all that we do and say this morning and throughout this day be done for Your glory, Your praise, and Your honor—for the glory, praise, and honor of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ’s name we do pray and forsake. Amen.
📖 EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE
Job 16:20-22 (KJV)
Verse 20: “My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”
Verse 21: “O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!”
Verse 22: “When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.”
🔍 VERSE 20: SCORN AND TEARS
“My friends scorn me.”
Do you have any friends who scorn you? They used to be for you, but they’re not now. They’re not your friends. And by the way, your little Facebook friends are not really your friends. They don’t even know you, and you don’t know them. Stop believing lies, people.
“My eyes pour out tears to God.”
Some of us want friends so bad. Some of us are so lonely that we make up friends. And now we got people in the world who are making up friends and even boyfriends and even girlfriends and even husbands and even fathers, and they’re claiming that they’re having children with AI. And AI is nothing, okay? And this is why people are committing suicide—because they fall in love, so to speak, with nothing. AI cannot caress you. AI cannot hug you. And God forbid that you want an ugly robot to be doing that to you and with you. God forbid if you’re that lonely and that depressed and defeated—may God help you.
💑 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY
There’s only one way to satisfy your sexual desires legally in God’s sight, according to God. In God’s economy, in God’s world, there’s only one way to satisfy your sexual desires. It’s not through adultery; it’s not through fornication; it’s not through watching pornography—which will lead you to hell, hell in this life, and hell to come. It is called holy matrimony.
Some men on TikTok and on YouTube and everywhere are telling men not to get married to women in America, particularly because women are toxic. They used to call men toxic. Now the men are saying, no, do not get married to a woman because she’s going to put you on child support. She’s going to put you on alimony, and she’s going to divorce you, and she’s going to use your money to go and whore around with another man.
But see, the problem with that—maybe you need to change and be the man that God wants you to be and get married to a woman and stop thinking that she’s going to automatically do what she’s supposed to do when she was never trained by her mother and father to do what she’s supposed to do. She doesn’t even know what to do. So therefore, you are going to have to lead her, men.
And most women, as long as you are serious about leading her, they’ll go along. They may not be perfect about it, but as long as they know you’re going to be a man about it and you’re going to hold her accountable—because you need to do the boom boom with the woman.
You don’t need to be sitting in your house masturbating every day because the sex drive for the man is every day. The woman has to be turned on, and it’ll be every day for her too if you turn her on. But that’s a thing that’s given to you by God and is heavy and is necessary. And God wants you to get it, and she needs to be got. That’s all there is to it. And there’s no other way to do it right unless you do it God’s way.
📚 COMMENTARY INSIGHTS
Dr. Matthew Henry said about this passage, “The contrast between the scorn of earthly friends and the tears poured out to God.” He was scorned by his friends, but the tears and the prayers poured out to God.
Dr. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown see Job turning from human comforters to the divine advocate, God Himself. And ladies and gentlemen, that’s who God wants you to turn to. He wants you to turn to Him.
⚖️ VERSE 21: THE MEDIATOR
“Oh, that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleads for his neighbor.”
God must support me against God. God must support me against my enemies, for He makes me to suffer, and He alone knows me to be innocent. Job quaintly says, “God must support me.” He is praying for God to support him against his miserable comforters and his friends who have forsaken him, even though they are there. Recognizing that only God can be both the source of his situation and his vindicator.
The EBC observes the foreshadowing of Christ as the mediator—one mediator between God and man.
⏳ VERSE 22: THE WAY OF NO RETURN
“For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.”
This reflects on this as an acknowledgement of mortality. “When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.”
And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, that pertains to you as well. I hope you do realize, everybody—I hope you’re not sitting around watching As the World Turns while The Young and the Restless and General Hospital and all of the other titles, and you have forgotten that one day you will spin off of this earth and go out into eternity. I hope you understand that you too will go to the place of no return—that is, to the place of no return to this earth. Please remember that.
I hope that you have enough self-awareness that one day you’re going to leave here and you need to be prepared.
🗣️ THE CALL TO PREPARATION
So understand with me, here’s how you can get prepared for that day, because it’s coming.
- No matter how beautiful and fine you are, woman, with all of your makeup on, the day is coming when somebody else is going to put makeup on you for your funeral.
- No matter how successful you are, sir, please remember that if you do have success, God is the one who gave it to you. One commentator used to call it “talent on loan from God.” Have you accomplished something in your life? Good on you. I’m here to remind you that God is the one who gave you the ability.
- You think you look good and handsome and beautiful? I’m here to remind you that God made you that way.
- Oh, did you gain some thousands and multiply thousands of dollars and even millions of dollars? Good for you. But I’m here today to tell you and remind you that God is the one—He gives people the power to gain wealth.
So if you did anything good, if you ran for a touchdown, God gave you the ability to do it. That’s why the football players and Steph Curry, a basketball player, they have enough sense to point to God when they hit that ball or shoot that ball into the goal or run for a touchdown—while they’re running, they’re pointing to God, giving Him the glory. They have enough sense to do that because they know that God had to help them.
❗ THE GOSPEL MESSAGE
So with all of that said, understand with me today:
1. You are a wicked and evil sinner. But God is still good and good to you. The Pope is a sinner. The Dalai Lama is a sinner. Joel Osteen—we understand that this church is shrinking down to nothing. He used to have the biggest church in the nation. And his wife, Victoria, is a sinner too. All of us are sinners. We’re all in the same boat. I don’t care how great you think you are. You need to humble yourself down.
The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
2. Understand that you’re going to die soon. Job understood that he was going to die. He understood he was going to die and leave to the place of no return. And we all are.
3. Understand that if you do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God—if He is the Son of God, He is God. God suffered, bled, and died for you, was buried and rose on the third day. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
And so, dear friend, believe in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. And if He is the Son of God, that means that He is God in the flesh—Emmanuel with us, God with us. Emmanuel means “God with us.”
Jesus is the Son of God. He came and dwelt among us. He was rejected by His own family, rejected by the Jews, and was crucified for you and for me. And all you have to do, my dear friends, is believe in Him and pray and ask Him to save you.
Do it now on this beautiful Monday morning. And yes, a hot Monday morning, when I’m here to tell you it’s going to be hotter than this in hell. You think this is hot? You don’t know how bad hell is going to be. It’s going to be hotter than this in hell throughout eternity—the lake of fire.
And God said, “All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire.” And God does not play. That’s why I told you—God does what He wants to do, and you can’t stop Him. So believe in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s showing you grace. Take advantage of it.
🙌 THE SINNER’S PRAYER
Follow me in the sinner’s prayer, as the Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Holy Father God in heaven, have mercy and grace upon me. And for Jesus Christ’s sake, please forgive me of my sins. Forgive me of my sins of pride, lying, stealing, taking Your holy name in vain, lying on You, lying to You, dishonoring my parents, and many other sins. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please forgive me of all of my sins. As I now believe in You, Lord Jesus Christ—Emmanuel, God with us, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords—fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to change. Help me to repent of my sins. Cast all devils and demons out of my heart, mind, soul, and spirit. 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, the Great White Throne Judgment, and from the lake of fire. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray and for His sake. Amen.
✨ CLOSING BLESSING
God bless you, dear friends.
Until next time, pray every day and read the word of God.
Lord willing, I’ll see you soon.
“My witness is in heaven” — the glimmer of hope in deepest despair.
FROM ASHES TO THE THRONE
When Family and Friends Fail You, Faith Looks Up to God
📌 Key Scriptures:
- Job 16:20-22
- Romans 3:23
- John 3:16
- Romans 10:13
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Daniel Whyte III has been preaching the Gospel for over 46 years and 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” and “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos.”
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 eight years, to this very day. His mottoes 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 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 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 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, 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 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.”
The diminishing of peace and joy in my life throughout 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.
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 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.
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?
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 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 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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