THE SPOILS OF SPIRITUAL WAR

THE SPOILS OF SPIRITUAL WAR

After ever battle the winner takes the spoils of the enemy, the most valuable being territory, the second prisoners, the third material wealth. At best these are only temporal. But have you considered the spoils of your spiritual battles. Many believers are leaving them behind after they have won. The same categories of spoil exist only in the spiritual realm. When you defeat the enemy in a battle, new territory is yours for the taking. Neighborhoods must be secured with, home church groups, to hold the ground. Prayer meetings in the territory, remind the enemy that you now own the spiritual rights to the land. "Now therefore, in the sight of all  the neighborhood, and the new believers, and in the hearing of your God, keep and seek to be familiar with all My word, that you may possess the new territory, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever."  1 Chronicles 28:8 

 

The prisoners are those you set free who were bound and gaged before the battle began. New born believers, filled with excitement, must not be left wandering on the field, for the enemy to reclaim. They must be discipled to maturity. Moved from milk to meat ASAP. "You have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that after the battle, you may perform and fully accomplish My Father's will, and thus receive and carry away the spoil, and enjoy to the full what is promised."  Hebrews 10:36

The material goods equal the fruits of the Spirit that each freed prisoner, displays as he or she grows in grace. As life springs forth from the new believer and spreads to family members and their friends and neighbors, you will be rewarded way past your life time on earth. Paul and the disciples are still receiving rewards as new believers beget new believers 2000 years after the left earth. "He who receives and welcomes and accepts a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. [42] And whoever gives to one of these little ones in rank or influence even a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, surely I declare to you, he shall not lose his reward." Matthew 10:41-42 AMP My reward system just keeps on giving and giving!

Make the most of your trials, tribulations and battles, and count them as joy, and do not leave your spoil behind. Follow through on every new believer, keep open every door, look at every battle through eternal eyes. When a person receives salvation the work has just begun, now pick up the spoil and make a disciple of him, or her!