Fraternizing with The Enemy: A Marital Victory over Adultery & Divorce

By Clyde Ennis

"Fraternizing with the Enemy: A Marital Victory over Adultery and Divorce" is an inspiring, intimate, and insatiable account of God's love through grace and deliverance. Christians are hard pressed to admit their willing participation and almost challenging expectations to engage in unauthorized relationships. When we fraternize, we give place to the devil, and we lose sight of attaining the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. We cannot afford to allow ourselves to be vacuumed into an espionage skirmish with Satan for our souls. If we persist in being ignorant of the enemy's devices, we forfeit all that we've sacrificed for ourselves and our family only to be rewarded with a "stupid ending." This book will testify to how God saved Clyde and Mary's marriage, sustained their ministry, and secured promised manifestations. The Holy Spirit magnifies and glorifies only one person, Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098017545

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Chapter 1

Breaking Generational Curses

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:7

So many times we’re stuck in trying to figure out why our family is the way it is. Why certain behaviors and vices are present in certain family personalities? Quite frankly, we’re not excited about connecting the dots or recognizing the behavioral patterns from one family member to the other. By definition a generational curse is basically a defilement that was passed down from one generation to another. As it relates to our relatives who we so proudly call our bloodline, and who make up a very important entry in our historical timeline, we have not been spiritually accountable enough to take spiritual jurisdiction over the apparent metastasis of demonic manifestation. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6); and our families are spiritually tormented, harassed, and ultimately destroyed by unrelenting strongholds, because we refuse to, or are afraid to acknowledge and uncover potential spirit-lineage encroachment.

This defilement, intrusion, or trespassing (encroachment), by fallen spirit beings is a direct fulfillment of Satan’s mission statement to steal, kill, and destroy our hopes, dreams, aspirations and the very life we live (John 10:10). The battle plan of any demonic attack comes in layers, waves, and degrees of subtle, yet determined Satanic ambition to overthrow the Will of God. Satan is the epidemy of patience, and has no respect of time or person in creating his web of deceit. He uses all of the traditions and customs to sensually, emotionally, and behaviorally make the connections to use anyone from the cradle to the grave to achieve his mission. He (Satan) is the master of deception, and often transforms into an angel of light with layers of truth in deep espionage cover with one purpose in view (2 Cor 11:14).

The same demonic activity you discern in family members can be traced back through historical lineage. Just as there are strong family facial features, there are strong spiritual imprints or activities holy or unholy. The only way to be rid of and totally delivered from these demonic pirates is to recognize, acknowledge, and defeat them through the blood of Jesus. These fleshly tendencies or spiritual encroachments must be exposed, talked about, and taught how to defend against them in generations to come.

Consider this, at the next family reunion conduct a seminar and deliverance service on generational curses. How about at the next family funeral set aside a special time for a Historical Family Blessing, where there will be prayers, blessings proclaimed, and specific lineage curses called out and cast out. Please don’t forget about seasonal get-togethers, BBQs and other events of like fashion where we the saved, sanctified, and Holy Ghost filled, will work the family crowds and clicks with prayers, pronouncing blessings, and anointing with oil.

In My Family

There are striking similarities on both sides of my family. In both grandparents’ home there were seven children. On my Dad’s side, Grandpa Willie, he was a musician and an upholstery shop owner. On my Mom’s side, Grandpa Willis, he was a truck driver. Both Grandpas traveled far distances earning a living through their respective crafts, and both developed outside families within a mile of their homes while married to their wives and seven children.

One Grandpa made a choice to leave home and make a life openly with his other family. As a boy it didn’t make any difference to me because I loved my grandpa and embraced the opportunity to get to know the other family and love them at a young age. Many years and tears after his death, I played the piano at his wife’s homegoing celebration who was in her early nineties. While the other grandpa elected never to reveal his family of two children to his wife and family of seven that I am aware of. A couple of days after my Dad’s homegoing celebration I decided to embrace the opportunity to get to know this person who reached out claiming to be my paw paw’s daughter, my aunt. That’s right, she came to Dad’s service, who was 83-years-old at the time of his transition and she was my youngest 67-year-old aunt. Apparently, she has proven to be anything but a quitter, to keep up with anything concerning this side of her family even if meant personal embarrassment, denial, and rejection. Of course, I haven’t approached the elders of our family about this matter in an effort to spare them any disrespect or to force upon them the acknowledgement of any claim they obviously have chosen not give life to. There’s more to be told here. Certainly, at the time of this draft and this phenomenal opportunity I’m 62-years-old.

After Dad’s service I almost felt like Jesus, when my youngest aunt pressed her way past others who were waiting in line to commend me on a job well done in eulogizing my Father as she grabbed me to cause me to remember the last time she attempted an introduction. In a short and frantic exchange, I got her number and logged it into my phone and told her I’ll call later. I reached out a couple of days later and arranged a meet at a local IHOP over coffee. After all the years of denial and rejection she really didn’t think she would ever hear from me again. This opportunity has flourished into a fellowship of introductions over meals with long stories, plenty of smiles and tears. What the devil meant for evil God turned it for our good. At least in my mind and spirit this connection is complete so we’ll hear the rest of the story before the Lord God. And so the journey begins.

Feeling The Consequences

"You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me." Exodus 20:5

"…but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation." Exodus 34:6-7

In the afore mentioned scriptures, God has made it clear that the descendants of their four fathers who choose to follow their example of disobedience, will suffer the same fate through four generations. This cycle of sin remains under demonic authority until each person embraces their responsibility in breaking the cycle by receiving Jesus the Christ as Lord (Acts 2:38; Rom 10:9-10).

This breaking of the cycle is for the consequences felt because of their father’s sins, and this victory is maintained through each person’s commitment to righteousness and true holiness (Eph 4:22-24).

In professional sports, as the star player goes, so goes the rest of the team. What God is saying, As the father misleads the family, the entire family pays for it. Of course, each child and grandchild will have to realize the consequences for their own sins, but there are some consequences the child wouldn’t have to deal with at all had the father stood up with a spiritual back bone to break the cycle.

Certainly, we can find ourselves in the Word of God, for we are the people of God called by His name, and we humble ourselves and pray every day; we also seek His face and boldly turn from our wicked ways. We understand that this is a vital condition of maintaining our victory (2 Chro 7:14).

Consequences or God’s Works

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him." John 9:1-3

Here’s a portrait of my family. My two eldest are heir apparent to the depth of wisdom and spiritual gifts for the edification of the body of Christ. I named them as God instructed, they both received Jesus and was baptized in His Name. I drug them to rehearsals, meetings, and functions as my Dad drug me; and of course, they were a fixture in whatever church I traveled to as a Minister and Musician. Sounds familiar.

The difference between me and both my grandpas, I didn’t develop outside families within a mile of my home. For me, it was a deep seated flirtatious spirit (stronghold), which opened up to other demonic encroachments ultimately leading to the publishing of this book, Fraternizing With The Enemy: A Marital Victory Over Adultery and Divorce. Let’s face it folks, more huge rugs are being purchased today because it’s so convenient to live a lie and just sweep taboos under the rug. This book isn’t for everyone, but it is for someone who can recognize and acknowledge lineage spiritual encroachment (generational curses); and who will be bold enough to break the cycle by taking spiritual jurisdiction over the apparent metastasis of