She said she prayed for God to make her numb to the pain. She said even though her ex-husband was having multiple affairs with the women in the ministry, she stayed because she believed that is what God wanted her to do. I was so far gone with whatever he told me to do,' she said. 'I remember the time a husband found out that his wife and my ex-husband were sleeping together and I literally sat at the table with this husband and my ex-husband and I lied for my ex-husband to pretend and act like that did not happen. She said she had seen signs that he used women in the church prior to their marriage and things only got worse soon after they exchanged vows. I was excited about the man of God but I didn't know him,' she said. I didn't want to have another child out of wedlock. That we take our time and we don't just marry somebody because we have sex or just because we got pregnant.

It's very important that we make sure we marry the right person. 'I want to say to the women of God and the men of God. In a later telephone conversation she said Taylor told her that God had told him that she liked him. Soon after she joined the ministry, Tabitha said she had a dream that she was kissing her pastor and shared it with him. So I started serving the man of God,' she said. And I was so hungry for God I didn't want to miss anything. I worked from 11 at night to 7 in the morning. And I quit my night job so that I could be in the services, that's how hungry I was for God. And I was so excited about the things of God that I began to go to the services night after night. I was in full-time ministry basically because I had quit my job. 'I had just gotten saved back in 1995 of June. She said she was so hungry for God and so excited about his ministry she quit the job she was working on the graveyard shift just so she would miss any of the miracles from his ministry. The pastor's ex-wife said when she joined his then fledgling ministry in the mid-1990s, she was in awe of his spiritual gifts and how God was using him.

The Christian Post reached out to Joshua Media Ministries International for a response to Tabitha's claim on Monday but one was not immediately available. We're destroying people's marriages, we're destroying people's homes and God is not pleased. We're preaching in the pulpit and we're not doing right by the people of God. We're preaching in the pulpit and we're abusing the sheep. We're preaching in the pulpit and we're sleeping with our members. He's gonna judge us if we don't get it together people of God. We're teaching people that it's OK to live unrighteously but God is gonna bring judgment to the household of God. 'We're teaching people that it's OK to sin. Speaking out in a recent broadcast on Facebook Live, Tabitha explained that she is coming forward with her story now as a warning to the church against the abusive and manipulative behavior of pastors operating contrary to Scripture. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International claims he engaged in multiple extramarital affairs during their relationship and got her pregnant before they were married. Tabitha Taylor, the ex-wife of controversial Missouri Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International in Florissant, Mo., and his ex-wife Tabitha Taylor (inset).

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