Exposed 2010: The Imperfections of D. Sermons

At 1131pm, inside the St. Johns Hospital in St. Augustine, FL on the night of June 23, 1979, Danny was birthed into this world. My mother had me at a young age so I definitely consider myself a miracle and a very purposeful person. My dad wasn’t there at my birth. He was in the US Army and had just touchdown in Ft. Bliss, TX. He lived in Tifton, GA where I would find myself staying in the next few years. At the age of 6, I moved to Tifton where my grandparents raised me while my mother finished school. It was under the roof of my grandparents that the gifts and talents the world witnesses today began to come from inside of me. I was always a different little boy. I was always uniqque. I went to church with my grandmother. I remember I had this easter suit my grandmother bought me I wore so much. Ya boy was sharp. Because of my grandmother, God used her to plant the seeds of HIM and HIS WORD in me, which would be the foundation of my life today. I never got into some of the craziness that some of the kid friends I knew got into, even when i tried. Somehow God always kept me. This was the time when racing your friends in the street was cool and lil boys wearing biker shorts was normal. Remember when your friend mommy could whoop you for acting up and when you got home you got another whooping. It was also the time where the seeds of the enemy was planted that would haunt me for the rest of my life. When my mother found out that she was pregnant with me, because of her youth I know that she had at least one thought of aborting me, which all it takes for the enemy is one thought. Im pretty sure he tried to mess with her head about that but my mother didn’t listen. She chose life. Thank God she did.

The enemy began to plant seeds through the one person with the most influence in my life at that time. My dad. I had a great dad. I knew him but yet I didn’t know him. I witnessed a man that a lot of people knew and respected. People loved my dad, especially women. My dad was a womanizer. He wasn’t a pimp or nothing like that but he had a lot of female companions. I remember my dad sharing things with me about women that totally altered what I thought about women or girls to me at the time. The way they are treated, respected, my interaction with them and true chivalry towards them. It was positive father and son info that was given but negative at the same time. In the knowledge my dad shared I grew up thinking it was cool to have many partners and female companions. Commitment wasn’t even a thought. Now, I’m not bashing my dad or anything like that. My dad passed away in 2005. I’m giving you an understanding of how powerful the influence of our parents are. I walked in the footsteps of my father, literally. Everything he did, minus the drugs, I did, in presence terms. My father served in the Army, I also served. He was stationed in TX and Germany. I was also stationed in TX and Germany. Which in that, allows me to share that it was a natural illustration of how God’s plan was showing me that He wanted me to follow HIM.

Back to the story, I remember in elementary school having my 1st crush. I remember her name and everything. I had a crush on that girl from 1st grade to 4th grade. She was fine too. I knew it then just like I know it now. Physically she was exactly the kind of female i’ve always been crazy about, even today. The thought process of lil Danny (my dad was named Danny also) was starting to develop but not down a positive road. But God still had a plan. After 4th grade I moved back to FL with my mother. New life, new friends, new environment, new atmosphere. It was the middle school years for me. During these years the seeds of the enemy was starting to grow. During middle school I was introduced to magazine pornography. I was starting to take the path the enemy was counting on me to take. Before I knew it I was poisoning myself as a young soul. I had no clue of the type of future I was setting myself up for. It got really bad. As I continued to poison myself, I got so lost in it that one day I got caught masturbating by the apartment maintenance man in broad daylight in the pool area watching these 2 women getting there tan on. I didn’t get into that much trouble although it could have been worse. Soon after I found out about video pornography and started to sneak and watch it. I was in the 8th grade when I first had sexual intercourse. Something I wish I would have taken back if I could. I was spiraling down a path of destruction and didn’t even know it. But God still had a plan. High school years began and man oh man. Mentally, I was on another level then most of my friends. I was never the guy being load and obnoxious. I was never the guy that was causing trouble and getting into fights. I was never the guy disrespecting women, although I was. One thing I knew about me was that I was very intelligent in my conversation, especially with women. I didn’t have a lot of girlfriends and females I talked to at my high school but I did at other high schools. I was so good and confident and bold with my conversation I started talking to older women. Let me remind you I was in high school. A lot of the high school girls I conversed with, I met at my church. My head was big. I never showed a ounce of conceitedness but mentally, you couldn’t tell me nothing. Then I met this young lady at my church and fell in love so to speak. My junior year in high school we started dating. Grad time came an I joined the US Navy right after. In the year 1999, I was told I had a little girl on the way. My thinking at the time was that I love her and she’s bearing my child so marry her. And I did.

A life changing decision that was made but a stupid and costly one. Let me tell you the reason why I said it was stupid and costly. I didn’t know a thing about marriage. I didn’t have an understanding of what is was about and my role as a husband. I was young and still had a whole lot of maturing to do. Plus I was still chasing women. I still had women on the side I was messing around with. I wasn’t committed. Didn’t know how to be. But I acted like I did which wasn’t real and honest and pure integrity. We got married and I was off to the seas. My daughter was born Feb 16, 2000. I got out of the Navy Aug ’00 because I didn’t like it but made the decision totally on my own selfish reason and didn’t think about my family. I had a wife and child and I made a decision with no plan. Not good at all. Make sure you have a well thought out plan when you make a life changing decision thats gonna alter you and your family’s life and God is leading that plan. Couldn’t make it with no plan so I went back to familiar security. I joined the US Army. My time in the Navy was really bad. My mindset never changed about how I saw women and by this time pornography had such a hold on me that I was a slave. I put my wife at the time through a lot of crap because thats what it was, crap. She put up with it just like most wives put up with crap now from husbands that don’t honor them. I was one of those men. It was a whole new level of destruction when i joined the Army. Me and my wife was starting to be very distant with each other as far as being apart. We spent a tremendous amount of time apart which allowed me and my flesh to act a fool, and I did. I was cheating and all kinds of stuff. Years go on and we got to a point where our marriage was at the end. A marriage should never get to the end. It should always be growing and building and building. Moving and going to the next level, after the next level, after the next. Because of the foundation we built the marriage on and my mindset, we was headed to the place where no married couple should desire to go. In 2003 I had a little boy. I remember saying that I didn’t want to be like my dad with my son but my mindset was so poisoned and distorted that I could feel myself sending him down the same path I was going. It wasn’t looking good at all. In 2004 we legally separated and and soon after in Jan ’07 we divorced.

I know that my actions and mindset contributed tremendously to the destruction of my marriage. But God still had a plan. In the same year of 2004, I rededicated my life to CHRIST and HE gave me the vision for Uniqque Productions and Uniqque Christian Clothing. Since ’04, I been sold out and committed to following CHRIST. God revealed to me my mistakes and gave me an understanding of what marriage really was all about. My thought process has changed and I desire to be married again but now I’m more cautious than I have ever been before. From time to time I still fight and battle with my old mindset. I had become so infused with a lifestyle of whoredom that it was in my veins. It’s scary because sometimes I feel that I don’t deserve a wife anymore even though I know God will bless me once again.

Because of my relationship with CHRIST, I’m definitely not the same man I was a few years ago but I’m still attached to that guy and I will be for the rest of my life. You are witnessing greatness in me as a vessel of God and also witnessing God’s glory through me. You will continue to see that. This was heavy on my spirit to share with the world. You ask or wonder why? Well let me tell you. A lot of men or women, but especially men, won’t come out and expose their issues in a way that will and in some cases free them or free others. For men is that bad p word called pride. Men now is not the time to be prideful. Just take a long hard look at whats going on in the body of CHRIST right now. Another reason is strategy which is spiritual strategy. We are at war and in a spiritual battle everyday so as a water walker and one of CHRIST‘s warriors you have to go into a mindset and think, “what is a way I can stay ahead or keep the upper hand of my enemy”. Of course the Word of God and staying praying up are ways but this was more of a natural sense. I know that God is placing me in a position to be a key follower of HIM in the near future. God is moving in my purpose and me in my purpose very quickly as you can see. I know I will be placed in a position with a lot of influence. I notice the times we are in now and I also notice a lot of our Christians in the forefront of the body of Christ are being attacked by the enemy or exposed to the world of their own issues they deal with. Not looking good for the CHRIST team at all rite now, especially for the lost souls we have to share the Word of God too and the babes in Christ (but we will be victorious in the end). The thing is we have to understand that God is always on the throne which he is always in control. We all are human and no one is perfect except for Christ Jesus. We have to stop placing man in the perfect position that he is not because he will mess up, make a mistake, or fail you but God is always faithful and will never fail you. Regardless what you go through, God still has a plan for you. When you get in line with HIS will, it will happen if you trust and believe in HIM. One of the enemy’s tactics is to destroy you before you can  fulfill your purpose or set you up in a situation where your purpose will seem impossible to fulfill it. The enemy is always at work and will never stop. We live and play this chess game called life and have times when we lean on our own understanding, make a move and the enemy gets us. The enemy is always plotting trying to set you up especially when you in a high position of influence but what the enemy forgets is that when total trust is in HIM, God helps us make the right moves in life and the enemy can’t do a thing about it. What the enemy forgets is that although he is always plotting and he thinks he has us, God is always 10 steps ahead of him, so no matter what the enemy tries, God still got you and you will still come out victorious. May God bless and speak to all who reads this.