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Juanita Bynum Talks to Good Morning America
Evangelist Juanita Bynum talked to ABC’s Good Morning America today telling host Robin Roberts that she had a history of spousal abuse.
Admitting that her first marriage was abusive, she said her first husband “… repented for what he did, and I made a vow that I would not talk about that situation because it was over 20 years ago.”
Back in August Bynum was attacked by her estranged second husband Thomas Weeks in a hotel parking lot near Atlanta. Bynum was chocked, knocked to the ground and stumped. Her injuries required medical attention.
“I think right now my focus lately has been on why I have allowed this kind of behavior for a second time,” she said during the interview.
Click here for Bynum’s first televised interview after the attack.
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Juanita Bynum attacked - Bishop Thomas Weeks - updated 9/26/07
I never heard of Juanita Bynum till today - she was below my radar - so I read about Juanita Bynum on Answers.com to find out what her story is - what fundamentally defines Juanita Bynum and why she was attacked by her estranged…
As your sister in the Lord ,I am praying for you that God wil direct you in the way that you must go. You have a special anointing that is needed in these last days.
Remember that you are a child of the King! so do what is required as a saint of the Lord
Glory to God. I personaly think there is a potion of the Bible Juanita Bynum is yet to obey “Wife submit to your husband” Abused at first abused the second time well she need to check herself. What did she say to the Guy (Thomas Week)? I think she ran her mouth? Though there mite be traces of Jealous in Week, He is also at fault i think may be he has been tolerating some thing from her in the past and he can not continue to and Juanita still xepect him to tolerate her since they started like that. Juanita Bynum should watch her mouth incase she will remarry or come together with. She is highly respected by me but let her watch her mouth i think … My opinion may God forgive me in case am ….
personally, i would love Bishop Weeks and hs wife to sit down and trash out the exact causes of the problems in their marriage. if juanita bynum who s my spiritual mother decides to walk out of the marriage, then what is the probability that such an incident as this will not re-occur. pls i would love to beg Bishop Weeks and Prophetess juanita Bynum to sort out their differences instead of walking out of the problem. please remember that the devil is on the prowl and he really wants to termainate the calling on both your lives. please dont give him a chance by making him win. if u walk out, the devil mite end up winning and this could negatively affect the lives of those that have been looking up to you. i pray to God to give unto you both the wisdom to handle this major trauma and challenge of your life. remember submission, trust and sincere/genuine love is what will help you both settle your differences. may God help you.
Praise the Lord!
I come not to voice my opinion; I come to give love and prayer. All I want to say is:” What did God say” ? I love you all; know that the enemy is testing and trying you both. This to shall pass!!! Love you both dearly.
I believe things happen for a reason, and it’s not up to us to pass judgement on anyone. If anyone can say I have never sinned. My life has been clean since the day I was born, then you can cast the first stone. If we continue to GOSSIP against those whom we pray for, then who are we to cast the first stone. I pray for you and your husband and I pray that the both of you can find it in your hearts to come together. Don’t let satin take what God has ordained. Remember marriages are made in heaven.
I pray that Juanita forgive Thomas, and learn submission, that a major missing element in Juanita. Thomas must learn to release anger, and allow God to help him deal w/ the dominant woman he chose to marry. I honestly believe it’s way more to the both of their stories than anyone would ever know.
I pray that you both can find God in all things. When people get in this type of situtation the first thing they want to do is hit the road. You must think you are in the public eye, you are teaching that marriage is something that you work on. Now if you both have been married for the second time, maybe God didn’t put this marriage together. We get so caught up in the flesh that we think God is doing something but it is really us. So I would say “Re-check yourself and make sure God is leading you”
I hope and pray that everything goes will with Juanita. You must for give him, however, never forget. As you know, it was a reoccurring nightmare with the first husband, RUN! God didn’t tell you to be abused nor does he accept that foolishness out of him. No matter what you “said” to him gives him , give him NO REASON to put his hasnds on you, let alone STOMP you into the ground like some PIMP would do a prostitue. It’s people like the Solanke Michael that said you should watch your mouth, that give God Fearing NON-Abusive real men a bad name and let’s HOPE AND PRAY that he doesn’t have a wife, girlfriend , daughter, niece, mother, aunt or ANYTHING female ANYWHERE near him.
God Bless You!
ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE THAT LOVE THE LORD. I am certain in FAITH that GOD will use these circumstances to cause the man and woman of God to grow. My prayer is that the WILL OF GOD be accomplished.
She is going to make a lot of money out of this…. She wanted out of the marriage 2 years ago when she couldn’t bear children…
…. She waited for the perfect opportunity….. POOR WEEKS he don’t know what “hit him”…. She had learned all his “trigers”… and set the thing up.
…. I don’t believe her for a second…
I’m confused. Maybe someone can help me out here… When Juanita and Bishop went public with their relationship on TBN, she/he boasted that God had put them together, and how much they were in love, and how she had waited for God to send the right man for her. Am I understanding that now this “abuse” has happened, God made a mistake, because she found herself in another abusive relationship? If God put them together as she has stated, does this now make God a lair, and someone who did’nt know what He was doing? Can I still faithfully trust God in making the correct and proper decisions for me? hmmmmmm…. what’s wrong with this picture she is trying to paint? She said God put them together. So waaaassss-up?
I pray for both Juanita and Bishop, because they are children of our Lord. Bishop had no rights to put his hands on her, and she had no rights to abuse him with her words, as many suspect. But, when you are living a lie behind close doors in the name of the Lord, God will expose the lie. So why is it that no one thinks that God will put into action His words and hand of chastening. Hebrews 12
Many other women have suffered real time physical abuse in a serious degree, and have suffered emotional, mental, and financial abuse from their husbands and/or mates, so why haven’t they appeared on television, had a conference or wrote a book?
I would suggest that Juanita be very careful playing the victim game in this matter for publicity and to gain fame. She still refuses to learn life lessons and God is not pleased.
What happened to her was not domestic abuse, in the true sense of the meaning of domestic abuse. She just got her butt whooooopped in public in a parking lot, and now she is playing the victim. But God will have the last word, and she is playing with fire! Let the truth be known, I suspect, Bishop has been the victim of emotional, mental, and verbal abuse in their relationship.
Juanita denounced the very anointing that brought her into the public eyes, by stating at her Women on the Front Line Conference very loud and boastfully that ,”I’m more than just wearing a white robe and speaking in tongues”.
Therefore, God stepped in to show her that He is God, and exposed the truth in her marriage. I believe therefore, I speak, God is not through exposing Juanita Bynum, unless she backs off and repents of her sins before God.
As for Bishop, he too, has need of bearing furits of repentance. But at least he is keeping silent in the media and is not trying to gain favor from fans or popularity, which God will honor more than her running her mouth trying to be the “new face of domestic violence”.
New face?… what about the other women who have been beating in the face and have no faces because of domestic violence? How many women shelters will Juanita visit or has she visited since all of this has happened? Where will she go do volunteer work or live for a week or two to see how things really are for the abused woman? Oh, I forgot, she wants to be the “pretty new face of domestic violence”, and just appear on TV… sorry, I forgot no real drama of participating.
I wonder why Tina Turner did’nt become the new face of domestic violence during her times of struggle with abuse? Maybe Tina waited too long in her healing process before she spoke out in public about domestic abuse… unlike Juanita, who only waited for a total of a week and a half weeks, no counseling, no healing process needed. Just a great plan to get up and get the word out as soon as possible, as the new face. I get it… Her plans according to what she said at her WOTFL Conference is to be on the cover of Forbes, jist like Oprah… doubt if she will make enough money for such appearence. Maybe Forbes or Ms. O will give her a break. God is too slow in bringing about her dreams and visions…
She has need to get herself somewhere and sit down for a season and get counseling, and allow the healing process to begin and be complete, and the Holy Spirit of God to renew her mind. Otherwise, A storm is coming her way, if she continues likes she going. She thinks its making her popular, but God is just waiting and when she lest expect it, He is going to let His will be done and give her a real whooping she’ll never forget, in order to put her back on tack. As a woman of God, she is out of order! And is being deceived by the devil, and she is going to get used for the glory of the devil by the media, because she covets fame, instead of the glory and righteousness and truth of God.
I pray for the best of her. No one don’t deserves to go through what she went through. For me, I feel she did the right thing. There are many women going through the same situation right now, and need to be out of it. God gave us wisdom not wisdum. I just want to say I love her and pray that she stay strong. She may save many women lives. God put you through trials and tests, just to help someone else. God bless you sister.
I find it very sad that most of us have forgotten what it means to be a true Christian. It’s not for Any of us to say whose right or wrong in this situation. Whatever happen to the power of prayer and positive support
for our Brother and Sister in Christ? To those of you who may know the ins outs of their personal situation…….I would just asked that you not use this time to judge or try to destoy them because of how you personally may feel about one or the other. God is a God of love. He is the only judge of us all…..Lets not follow the world’s example of how to handle things in a traggic situation…..Let’s do what God requires us to do……Show support through love and prayer. Leave the hatefullness and bashing up to those who truely don’t know God nor stands on his word. May God Bless you all
These are the end times and satan is fighting hard to destroy the Bodies of Christ but praise God, our Lord Jesus Christ has defeated him long time ago. All we need now is to please pray for all the Ministers of God for strength and protection in these trying period. Whatever happens, the name of our God cannot be put to shame. NEVER, he is and will continue to be GOD of ALL NATIONS! Halleluyah!!!
I’ve never been a follower of Ms Bynum, simply due to her extreme way to talking to women. Some of us will follow anything without actually getting into the Word of God for ourselves and allowing God to reveal to us what it is we must do to live this life of trials and tribulation. We attend these women conferences to feed our conscience by another person who has as many porblems as we do, or more. If you listen to her long enough, anybody whose had psychology 101, knows you can’t talk about something unless you know about it and have had experiences with it. One reason she had so many followers. Human validation, not Godly inspiration.
Junita Bynum is on the same side of an issue as many women. Instead of looking to God for answers, the devil tricked her into [to talk] and she came out on the wrong side of the situation, due to her bad girl temper, and brow beating of women, [which they paid for and liked] because they need her to validate their own issues.
I don’t condone what her husband did to her, I think he was wrong all the way, but I do believe she had another way of dealing with the issue……….walk away!!! deal with the situation when tempers have cooled. Isn’t that what Jesus did? He went to a quite place to hear from the Father. NNNAAAAWWW, women want to call God DADDY! Well ‘earthly daddy’ got mad and said enough is enough. When the Father in heaven says enough is enough, He puts stumbling blocks in your way. Whatever the cause, she lost sight of God in the whole issue.
I truly pray for her, but she’s put a damper on her Chriatian career. God will pick her up, but she’ll never have the response she once had. And that’s the sad part.
I would like to thank Evang. Juanita for being a blessing to my life. I am sorry for the misfortune of her and her husband. We as followers of Christ we need only to pray for the couple and not pass judgment. In the bible, Jesus said to the women, “If anyone without sin cast the first stone”. The devil has come to steal, kill and destroy, but Christ has come that we shall have life and life more abundantly. No one on this earth is perfect, or uses perfect judgment when we get angry. The bible say to “get angry without sinning”. We must fast and pray always, we are living in the last days; the devil has attacked God’s institutions, the churches and marriages. The devil is attacking the marriages of people in “high” positions and in the public’s eye due to the fact that he wants to deceive the world, painting a picture in the world’s mind that say: “if the Evangelist and Bishops cant stay together what we should do? Let’s pray for this couple and all marriages that God will bring a deliverance from divorces and break ups in Jesus name.
Prophetess Bynum, I support you and the decision you have made. You are still an Anointed, Chosen, and Appointed Woman of God. You are a Queen of the Most High God and He wants us to be treated like Queens! The enemy was after your destiny, but your life is in the hands of God and if God be for you, and he is, there isnt a devil in hell that can be against you. Keep your eyes on Jesus, and continue to walk in the call and the Anointing he has placed on your life. God still loves you, and nothing can or will ever change that. I am in awe of the Dimension God is taking you to now…………..You go Jesus and Prophetess, and the devil can go right back to where he belong………the pit of hell. I pray for Bishop as well and all of the haters too that doesnt recognize the Anointing. Touch not my Anointed and do my Prophets no harm. Even though the weapon formed……………IT WILL NOT PROSPER!!!
I was reading the words sweet Jesus taught us yesterday in Mathew 5:31-32…” It hath been said whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her committeth adultery…” Unless the Weeks’ are sure the cause of their separation is fornication(adultery), God’s word will judge them. Not us, just the word. What about Vs. 38-39?…”Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: But i say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheeck, turn to him the other also…”wow!! Thats a tough for us. I don’t see prophetess doing it, neither do i see the bishop allowing to be pushed around. I am thinking, now what? My question: Did Jesus really mean those words Literally??? Yes He did. So I am left thinking, without Christ, we can do nothing. He knew we would do them, otherwise he would not have asked us to do them. Has Prophetess Bynum and her husband checked the gospels lately? I mean Jesus’ own words, not humanistic popular ideologies we follow today? True christianity is DEATH…DEATH TO SELF…i am not judging any of them. This just makes me the more humble, knowing that every morning i wake up, i must remember the name of the Lord my God…not trust in my abilities. Just the mighty name of the Lord my God.
Praying that God will get all the glory when all is said and done.
Listen to God, he’ll hear you
God gives us as believers two choices. To either walk in the lusts of our flesh, or to walk in the character of Christ in His Spirit. We blame the devil for everything that happens that we are suppose to take responsibility for doing or saying. The devil can’t do any more to us than what we allow and God gives His approval to do. God warns us that the devil walks around seeking whom he may destroy, but the word never says that the devil has destroyed anything that God has not approved of him destroying. The word also says, if we draw near to God, God will draw near to us, and the devil will flee.
So just became the devil is seeking whom he may destroy, if we are walking near to God in His Holy Spirit , it is impossible for the devil to get to us. But when we are walking in our own path, in our own spirit, there is no protection from God. For the flesh lusts (fights) against the Spirit, and the Spirit fights against the flesh, and these are contray to one another. In other word the sinful nature does not want the things the Spirit delights in, and the Spirit does not want what the sinful nature delights in.
The Spririt seeks obedience, and the flesh seeks disobedience. The flesh enjoys disobedience and delights in sexual sins, impure acts and wild living, worshiping of self and other idols, evil powers, haterd and jealousy, fits of anger and rage, it is interested in getting ahead, wealth and riches, stirring up troubles, the flesh is puffed up and prideful, enjoys drunkardness, and the list goes on.
But when you are walking in the Spirit of the Lord in His character, your behavior is obedience to the voice of God, you are full of love, joy, and peace. You are patient, kind and gentle, faithful and have SELF-CONTROL AND DISCIPLINE!
Saul was an anointed of God but God removed His anointing from Saul, because Saul sought out a palm reader. Juanita and Bishop were in their own flesh and were not behaviing in the character of Christ. NEITHER ONE OF THEM WERE IN OBEDIENCE TO THE VOICE OF GOD. THEY WERE SEEKING TO FULLFILL THE LUST OF THEIR FLESH! AND ESPECIALLY NOW, JUANITA HAS GONE OVER THE LINE! AND GOD IS NOT PLEASED…
All it take is a little time reading I & II Timothy and Titus and you will find that God also tell us to rebuke those who are not walking as they should harshly, so that others may hear and see and turn from their evil ways. To touch not God’s anointed does not mean to keep silent when you see or hear tell of a man or woman of God in the wrong or doing something that has cause the world to blashphem the name of God which this ha sdone. To not touch His anointed means to not touch those servants whom God has chosen and sent to fulfill His work. This fight in the parking lot was not God’s work, it was Juanita’s and bishop’s flesh AT WOERK!
God will protect His servant(s) from those who comes up against His work. Read the scripture well with understanding, to touch God’s anointed falsely or to do or cause harm to God’s servant, God will act! If the anointed is walking in His character and hearing His voice, God will defend against the enemy. Truth always hurt, that’s its purpose, and once the pain is over you are set free. But you can’t be set free without hearing, receiving, and knowing the truth. And we are to judge wrong. And There is no where in the Bibles where God tells us not to righteously judge or have an opinion.
Jaunita and Bishop have an anointing, but neither one of them are walking in it, because they are self-seeking. Plus, from what is being posted all over the boards, she was dating Bishop before his divorced was completed. God does not glorify sin, nor does He defend those in sins… if this is true if he didn’t know better, then surely, as a prophetess she SHOULD have known better to be involved or marry a man who has just gotten out of a divorce without him first healing and getting counseling and then repenting of his sins.
God never allows us to enter into any danger without warning us of what is coming, that is of course, if we listen. If Juanita and Bishop were listening as God’s anonited they wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. She would’nt have called for him to meet her at the hotel, because I know God warned her not to call him. And he wouldn’t have gone, because I know God warned him not to go to the hotel. But it was the lust of their flesh to spend the night before together. They both must take responsibility for their own bad behaviors and disobedience, and you people who refuse to see the truth, and worship Juanita and her ministry must stop committing the sins of omission and submission… These are sins you know, when you call wrong right and right wrong, in favor of a person and their sins…and over look the truth of both their wrong doings.
Yes, pray for Juanita, because she dennounced the very anointing that brought her to where she is now at the Women On the front line conference by saying to the world that she was more than “this white robe and speaking in tongues” Pray for Bishop because he must learn responsibility and stop using Flip Wilson’s line “The devil made me do it” He must learn self-control which is a FRUIT of THE HOY SPIRIT! If they both are so anonited and filled with the Holy Spirit, why were they fighting.? I thought the Spirit of the Lord who lives inside of all believers and is our being and helps us in situations as this, tells us of things to come. Being human isn’t good enough noe is it the point, this is why the Spirit of the Lord came to live in us, because we are human, and He is SUPPOSE to be our protector! Otherwise, Christ death is in vain, to have an anointing that doesn’t work, becaue we are HUMAN…duuuuhhhhh. Sounds like the blame game and excuses, which God does not hear either.
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Well, this has nothing to do with bishop or prophetess re-checking their ways all i know let them allow God to take his course and at the end of it all they will see what God can do.
I would urge prophetess to observe forgiveness and protect her husband to the uttermost for the bible says a woman shall protect her husband.
On the other Hand i would urge Bishop to counter check the anointing that the lord has imparted on their lives and for this reason he should act promptly concerning this issue and avoid vengeance.
Eunice from Kenya
I am amazed about the dumb persons that seem to think that the absence of submission by the wife is the reason behind Bishop weeks striking his wife.
I don’t care if she talked about his Momma! There is nothing that would justify the beating that he put on her. He could have walked away from the relationship too and filed for divorce from her.
What a punk!!!!!!!!! Weeks had to conspire, calculate, premeditate, plot and plan in order for him to be at that hotel at that hour of the morning to attack her, especially when no one else was with her. He was not expecting a bellman to be around and I believe if the bellman hadn’t been there (based on what was said in the article), Weeks would have killed her and gotten away with it.
These are God’s annointed but they are still made of flesh and blood. Church, lets get on our knees and pray for these 2 blessed people. They will eventually yield to the will of God concerning their lives. This is a season to remember all the good that they have done for the Kingdom. Stay blessed
Juanita, the devil has come to destroy. i understand you both are human and not holy spirit. Go to your God with a loud cry and He will answer you. i will keep praying for two of you. okay.
Stay blessed.
WHATEVER! Juanita is about her money and profit. Do some IN DEPTH research on her and her spending of church funds … millions of $$$$$$$$$ spent for her wedding, living LARGE PDitty style. RESEARCH, it gets DEEP!
I m just so confused about the whole issue of marriage & divorce as it has to do with believers. Why is it that we are the ones that marry easily and divorce with in months. I think Juanita and Weeks should just forgive each other and move on (What Would Jesus Do). It may not be easy, but whoever said Christianity is a bed of roses. we not should reason like the world we are different. I m praying for the two of you. May God prevail in this matter. Bless You
Has anyone seen the Juanita Bynum interview with Essence magazine? @ http://www.essence.com
Also, Biship Thomas Weeks gave a response in a press conference on yesterday, Wednesday with Fox News5 in Atlanta @ http://www.myfoxatlanta.com
Read the articles and watch the videos of his 2 news conference. You can do a site search and find all the articles on Juanita Bynum taxes on her 4.5 million compund being late and may go up for auction if not paid, and other articles on Bishop Weeks and this big mess.
JBynum & BT Weeks articles can also be found @ http://www.ajc.com
You must do a site search of their names once on the Fox News site, because most of the articles have been headlines news and the headlines change everyday.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!