Move over Beyonce! Halle Berry, look out.
Juanita Bynum is the latest black celebrity gracing the cover of Essence magazine – and she has major plans to evolve beyond the scope of being regarded as just a Pentecostal Prophetess.
That's no offense to the holy rollers!!!
For the January 08' edition of the best selling black women's magazine, the popular televangelist opens up to lead Essence features writer Denene Milner in part two of her explosive interview about life after her alleged abuse – at the hands of her estranged husband Bishop Thomas Weeks, III last summer.
"The drive has become making Juanita whole and taking it one day at a time," the 48-year-old Chicago native stated said.
"It's still very early in my situation, and as you know, it's not over," she declared. "When I'm asked questions about my husband's case, it really becomes almost difficult for me to focus on that direction. The focus is so on repositioning my life."Repositioning her life is not only the $200,000 she's raising to build a threshing floor (to talk to God on contributor's behalf – see video), but to also go full throttle in territory that the aforementioned Destiny's Child frontwoman and Academy Award winning beauty have already conquered with their respective talents.
In addition to publishing her next book, tentatively titled 'Accessing the Power Within,' Essence reports that the gold-selling gospel recording artist is returning to the studio, this time as a producer.
Bynum also recently signed a deal to distribute her own line of candles and cosmetics.
And she just wrapped up her feature film debut with a role in the upcoming film adaptation of Vy Higginson's legendary musical 'Mama, I Want to Sing!,' which stars Ciara, Patti LaBelle, Lynn Whitfield, Hill Harper and Kim Porter.
Bynum is also in the midst of planning a reunion conference in Atlanta tied to her now-famous "No More Sheets" sermon.
Her bouncing back and doing so much is proof positive that what some of her detractors are putting out in the universe about her hasn't become an deterrent.
"If you go look on YouTube, you would think my ministry is in absolute ruin[s], but it hasn't affected me," she said, adding that "people hating on me now are always going to hate. Half the people saying this stuff, if I walked up to them in a beauty shop or in a store, would never say these things to my face. When I reflect on what God is still doing [in my life], I don't have time to focus on people who don't like me."


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By: Pam on 12/21/2007 7:05AM
Pastor Jamesw Stewart,
I must totally disagree with you. In truth and love, we are responsible for our life. Meaning we are responsible for the choices we make. There is no one to blame. You know in your heart what is love and what is not. You always have a choice.
My people are hungry for the truth and it should not cost a cent. I don't remember Yashua asking for monies to deliver a message from God to the people and everyone was fed.
Let me give everyone the answer to the truth and where it is? Answer: Within
Pray and meditate, it is mandatory. Pray is when you converse with God, meditate is when you quiet the mind to hear from God. Remove the noise from your mind. God said be still and know that I am God.
If anyone want to discuss this further, you can contact me at pamsmth4@aol.com. I won't charge you a thing. God is free and you can be also. I don't need a threshing floor. I can go in my bathroom and pray to God and get wonderful results, because I know that God is within me and always have been.
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By: Charles on 12/22/2007 10:57AM
First I had to read about all her "former" titles, now she is just repositioning her life. So, not only is she passing the hat $$$, but a magazine cover $$$, a book $$$, producing a record $$$, selling candles and cosmetics$$$, then a film deal $$$, and finally a reunion conference Sermon. Looks like God took a back seat while she was getting ($$$$) all these ($$$$) other projects going.
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By: Cry Loud on 12/22/2007 5:38PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waXrbpFikZU
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By: Gman on 1/04/2008 4:50PM
She needs to listen to this message again
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By: M Murphy-CHICAGO IL on 1/05/2008 4:18PM
this whole article was just a waste of the writer's ink
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By: CALLED OUT OF EYGPT on 1/16/2008 8:21AM
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
JUANITA BYNUM IS A FALSE PROPHET, A FALSE TEACHER, A JEZEBEL, A BULLY, A CON ARTIST and she is DELUSIONAL.
NOW, PEOPLE, CAN'T YOU SEE HOW SHE IS LYING ON GOD,, TO GET MONEY FROM THE BLIND. DO A STUDY ON FALSE PROPHETS AND SHE AND THE OTHERS WILL LINE UP WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS. IF YOU LOVE GOD YOU WOULD STUDY(NOT JUST READ) TO SHOW YOURSELVES APPROVED.
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