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Post by kitty on Feb 19, 2008 16:59:09 GMT -5
hhhhhmmm.... And the plot thickens!
Kitty
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Post by kitty on Feb 19, 2008 17:01:05 GMT -5
Ok guys... Just humor me with this comment...
But>>> Wouldn't it be funny it God really did tell Juanita to go back to her husband and she's advoid him by having a Jonah in the whale moment?
Kitty
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Post by anointedteacher on Feb 19, 2008 23:05:57 GMT -5
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Post by stillfocused on Feb 20, 2008 16:15:23 GMT -5
ya'll are too cute !!
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Post by anointedteacher on Feb 22, 2008 14:08:09 GMT -5
Bynum, Weeks moved to forgive? Estranged evangelists could reconcile: High-profile church couple's tempestuous relationship could mend or break permanently next week. By D. Aileen Dodd The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/17/08 They have laid hands on the sanctified, the sinful, the sick —- and, allegedly, flailed them at each other, too. The stormy love affair of national evangelist Juanita Bynum and Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, the power couple of Pentecostal prophesying, could be nearing an end soon. Or will it? Speculation that the couple —- scheduled to meet Monday to hammer out a divorce —- will reconcile is spreading from the pews of metro Atlanta churches to gossip sites in cyberspace. Prayer warriors with Global Destiny Ministries in Duluth, the church empire Weeks runs, have been hoping for a miracle to bring him and Bynum back together again. "Our theme at Global Destiny for this year is that all things are possible," Weeks, 40, said. "My love for Juanita has not ceased. I want the best for her," he said. "There are people that are praying for this to be resolved in a Christian manner. It is my hope that maybe it will take place." Bynum, 49, whose fiery and frank sermons about women's empowerment have won her a national following, has accused her estranged husband of beating her in August. Weeks —- charged with a felony for the alleged abuse —- has accused Bynum of beating him during their tumultuous five-year relationship. Rumors of a reconciliation have been denied by Bynum's spokeswoman. A restraining order prohibits the couple from communicating or even standing in close contact. Yet in recent weeks, Bynum has gotten closer to Weeks and his extended family of pastors than she has been in months, according to Bynum's spokeswoman, Weeks and his church members. Bynum has dropped by Weeks' Global Destiny Ministries to use the prayer room and has accepted invitations from Weeks' grandfather, aunt, and uncle to speak at church conferences in Boston and Barbados. Bynum has accused her husband of beating, choking and stomping her to the ground in the parking lot at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta on Aug. 21, 2007. The couple, by then separated, had lost their $2 million estate and was close to losing Global Destiny Ministries, too. The church was behind on its lease payments and was facing eviction. Weeks was charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and simple battery in connection with the incident. But even though a restraining order separated the couple, Weeks says his wife has still been reaching out to him. Weeks said he received a prayer shawl from his wife and has shared text messages allegedly from Bynum with the AJC. Weeks says his latest encounter with Bynum occurred last month when the two crossed paths at their old haunt —- the restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead. He was eating clam chowder with a visiting bishop when Bynum spotted him. "Juanita came up to my table and wanted to talk to me," Weeks said. "She happened to be staying at the hotel that night. I could not talk to her because of the legal order." Bynum left momentarily and came back with a slip of paper, Weeks said. "She gave her personal cell number to the pastor that was at my table and asked the pastor to give it to me," Weeks said. "I was unable to call her." Bynum's publicist Amy Malone denies the account. "She was not trying to communicate with Bishop Weeks at the hotel," Malone said. An employee at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead would not confirm the hotel encounter, saying that hotel guests have a right to privacy. But Malone did not deny what Weeks claims happened a day after the Ritz encounter. Weeks said Bynum showed up unannounced at Global Destiny after Wednesday night Bible study asking to use the prayer center. "She asked me not to call the police, not to call the newspapers and not to take any photos of her," Weeks said. "She stayed at the prayer center from 10 p.m. until about 3 a.m. then left. I never saw her." Malone said Bynum was facing a personal crisis at the time. Her father was gravely ill and she wanted to pray for him. "The closest threshing floor in which she actually goes before Christ and prays is at the Duluth facility," Malone said. "That is the only one that has the Ark of the Covenant."
Bynum's Waycross prayer room has the same feature, but she was far from home that night, Malone said. "She made sure that she did not have any contact whatsoever with Weeks.''
Bynum has, however, been communicating with her husband's relatives. Juanita Bynum Ministries accepted an invitation from Weeks' uncle Bishop Leo Smith to speak at his conference in Barbados this June.
She also accepted an invitation from Weeks' grandfather Bishop Thomas J. Weeks and aunt the Rev. Gwendolyn Weeks to speak at an upcoming two-day prayer revival in Boston.
"Dr. Bynum has always honored her ministry and has great love and respect for the Weeks family, and after much prayer she accepted both invitations," Malone said.
Weeks said he figured in light of the actions of his wife that the two could work out their differences.
A meeting between them, their lawyers and a Fulton County Superior Court judge was arranged last month, but after several hours of talking, nothing was resolved.
Weeks' divorce attorney, Randy Kessler, plans to take a deposition from Bynum on Monday at his Atlanta law office. Following that, a mediation will begin and could lead to a final dissolution.
"Our goal would be for everyone to leave that day with a full settlement," Kessler said.
The couple's Christian colleagues, however, are praying the couple will kiss and make up before the case ever reaches the courtroom.
"My wife canceled the divorce on the day we were scheduled to go to mediation," said minister Gregory Brooks of Divine Faith Ministries International in Duluth, a neighbor of Global Destiny.
Brooks, who lives in Jonesboro, said he and his wife of 23 years, Annette Brooks, also a minister at Divine Faith, got counseling and stayed married. Brooks says he is praying that Weeks and Bynum will have the same happy ending.
"I am constantly praying that their marriage will be restored," he said. "It is possible if they really want it. You can't worry about what other people think.
"People are going to say what they are going to say."
Weeks is scheduled to enter a final plea in the domestic violence case on Feb. 25, the same day that his church is co-sponsoring a domestic violence prevention workshop in Atlanta. Trial is set for March 11.
The domestic violence case has increased the profiles of Bynum and Weeks. Weeks, an accomplished author, is writing a book about domestic violence prevention. He has returned to his estate home in Duluth.
Weeks says his church membership is on the rebound —- 100 members have returned and 60 more are joining for the first time. (Global Destiny Church lost 1,600 of its 3,400 members since the August incident.)
Bynum, an evangelist, recording artist and actress, has been in the national media, on local radio and has recently signed a deal in Cleveland, Ohio, to do a radio show called "Church in the Air."
Weeks says their success has been bittersweet because their marriage is at stake.
"Never in a million years would I want anyone to go through what I have been through and call it publicity," Weeks said.
"It is called hell."
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Post by Beulah5 on Feb 24, 2008 15:54:25 GMT -5
Lawd!! the arks are still around?
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Post by krazeeboi on Feb 24, 2008 19:42:39 GMT -5
^Hello! Maybe that's why I ain't won the lottery yet. Anybody got some nutstim wood they could lend me?
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Post by anointedteacher on Feb 25, 2008 12:14:48 GMT -5
Lawd!! the arks are still around? You did not know?! They found two of them in East Africa and put ione in Altanta at Global Destiny and the other Waycross, Georgia  Juanita have to be careful, she will find herself with a religious spirit... I don't understand this ark of the covernant thing.... but I can't completely judge, because I don't know how God dealt with her concerning the ark... I can't put a limit on how God deal individually with his prophets. I have heard of some off the wall things and had to realize that God told that particular prophet to do ABC and no one else.....  I quess she had a special place in the church and in her house where she used to pray and had a little ark built in it... many prepare a prayer room or spot in which they goes before God and put an altar in it, but never heard of a ark... nothing wrong with that.... but when it get to the point where that the only place where you can really get before God and be in Him present... you need prayer.... There used to be a certain place in my old church, where I didn't have to push to get a breakthrough, it seem like the minute I lay down in that area, God begin to speak and show so many things... I immediately was taken in the Spirit... I could pray 3 to 5 hours straight, without any struggle.... part of the time I be out in the Spirit. Posted by krazeeboi on Yesterday at 8:42pm So U play the lotto? have U been dreaming up some numbers?  I will pray for U |
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Post by Beulah5 on Feb 25, 2008 12:28:32 GMT -5
Lawd!! the arks are still around? You did not know?! They found two of them in East Africa and put ione in Altanta at Global Destiny and the other Waycross, Georgia Juanita have to be careful, she will find herself with a religious spirit... I don't understand this ark of the covernant thing.... but I can't completely judge, because I don't know how God dealt with her concerning the ark... I can't put a limit on how God deal individually with his prophets. I have heard of some off the wall things and had to realize that God told that particular prophet to do ABC and no one else..... Thanks my Sister for sharing that because this exact kind of behaviour and teachings is why Bynum started slipping from being the best loved prophetess around to exactly why people dont regard her much so this shd answer the question that why are so many people attacking her. It is because she has been off for a while especially doctrinally.I have a message by her which she preached at her father in law's place where she had taken a new ark for the consecration of the building and it will make u scared what she was teaching as she said she was gonna be putting them in churches and when they were put in the churches anyone who refused to live holy the ark was gonna strike them. She has been off doctrinally for a while and if u check why people have been on her case so much u can trace it right back to when she started taking this Old Testament relic business to a whole new level culminating in her threshing floor appeal. Jesus is the only mediator of the new covenant. Praying on a turf of grass or beside ur bed has no more power than anywhere else. Yes u can have a secret place with God but it is not the place or the paraphernalia that u have there that causes ur prayer to be effective it is the shed blood of Jesus that atones and is the way. Having said that i wonder what the ark must be thinking of all that has been happening. I again sent an email to JB's people that it would be nice to see something of Jesus and how to find Him in a small corner of her new website. The unending adverts are over the top. |
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Feb 25, 2008 19:08:56 GMT -5
Amen
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 25, 2008 19:45:32 GMT -5
ASWSOY,
For some strange reason when I looked at your name.. it appeared
And Some of You Were Attacked.
lol..I am cracking up for real!
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Post by anointedteacher on Feb 25, 2008 19:57:58 GMT -5
Lawd!! the arks are still around? You did not know?! They found two of them in East Africa and put ione in Altanta at Global Destiny and the other Waycross, Georgia Juanita have to be careful, she will find herself with a religious spirit... I don't understand this ark of the covernant thing.... but I can't completely judge, because I don't know how God dealt with her concerning the ark... I can't put a limit on how God deal individually with his prophets. I have heard of some off the wall things and had to realize that God told that particular prophet to do ABC and no one else..... Thanks my Sister for sharing that because this exact kind of behaviour and teachings is why Bynum started slipping from being the best loved prophetess around to exactly why people dont regard her much so this shd answer the question that why are so many people attacking her. It is because she has been off for a while especially doctrinally.I have a message by her which she preached at her father in law's place where she had taken a new ark for the consecration of the building and it will make u scared what she was teaching as she said she was gonna be putting them in churches and when they were put in the churches anyone who refused to live holy the ark was gonna strike them. She has been off doctrinally for a while and if u check why people have been on her case so much u can trace it right back to when she started taking this Old Testament relic business to a whole new level culminating in her threshing floor appeal. Jesus is the only mediator of the new covenant. Praying on a turf of grass or beside ur bed has no more power than anywhere else. Yes u can have a secret place with God but it is not the place or the paraphernalia that u have there that causes ur prayer to be effective it is the shed blood of Jesus that atones and is the way. Having said that i wonder what the ark must be thinking of all that has been happening. I again sent an email to JB's people that it would be nice to see something of Jesus and how to find Him in a small corner of her new website. The unending adverts are over the top. Her web-site has been down for a while now... It is not completely up yet... I did get a message on myspace from her assistance that work her offical myspace fan page(she deleted her offical myspace) that the web-site in underconstruction and to keep her in prayer. |
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Feb 26, 2008 10:09:46 GMT -5
ASWSOY, For some strange reason when I looked at your name.. it appeared And Some of You Were Attacked. lol..I am cracking up for real! May not be so funny, I hope you started to pray. LOL (but for real) |
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Post by nina2 on Feb 26, 2008 11:43:55 GMT -5
About what is going on re the Ark:
- When I read what Beulah wrote, it reminded me of this scripture:
Jer 3:14--Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jer 3:15--And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jer 3:16--And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.[/u]
Jer 3:17--At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Jer 3:18--In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
So, if God himself can say this through his prophet to the nation of Israel regarding the Ark of the Covenant, why would there be any need for us to "visit it"?
It's so wrong....
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Feb 26, 2008 13:30:02 GMT -5
ROFL,
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I will pray for U
