Commission Nutrition
Strategy for Harvest Series

Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town. August 2025

Reading:
Joh 4:6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Joh 4:7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
Joh 4:8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Joh 4:9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
Joh 4:11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
Joh 4:12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
Joh 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Joh 4:15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
Joh 4:16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
Joh 4:17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
Joh 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
Joh 4:19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
Joh 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
Joh 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
Joh 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Joh 4:25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
Joh 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
Joh 4:27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
Joh 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
Joh 4:29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
Joh 4:30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
Joh 4:31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
Joh 4:32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
Joh 4:33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Joh 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
Joh 4:36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Joh 4:37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Joh 4:38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
Joh 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”

1. Eat Jesus’ food. To do the will of the Father Who sent Him and finish the work.
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Link this scripture to James 1:22
Jas 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Hearing God completely implies obedience and action. You can’t say you’ve heard God and do nothing about it. It works the same way with the Lord, if we pray according to His will and He hears us, we have what we prayed:
1Jn 5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
1Jn 5:15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

Furthermore, if we hear the sayings of Jesus and do them, He says we are like someone building a house on a rock that can weather the storms.
Mat 7:24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:

How do we go about building a commission nutrition plan? Here are some steps to a healthy commission to nutrition:

1. Be led by the Spirit. Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Jesus needed to go through Samaria. He was led by the Spirit in all He did. He was also led by the Spirit to the wilderness where he was tempted and overcame the devil. After that, He came out and ministered in the power of the Lord.
2. Be real! Jesus also got weary from his journeys and he was thirsty. He met the woman at the well and started to speak to her as the Spirit led.
3. Break some of the barriers of society! It wasn’t proper for a Jew to relate to a Samaritan. Jesus saw the person, not the cultural barrier.
4. Operate in the gifts of the Spirit. Stir it up by faith and ask the Holy Spirit to use you every day. Read through 1 Cor. 12-14 and meditate a bit on how you have experienced the leading of the Holy Spirit and the gifts and fruit in your life.
5. Lift your vision and don’t postpone the harvest. Lift your eyes to His level and see the oncoming opportunities. The lady went to the village and fetched everyone and they came – then Jesus told them to lift their vision.
6. GO and tell people what Jesus did and said. Then they will also find out for themselves and develop their own testimony. Help them see it.
7. Learn how to enter into the labours of other who have sown the seed of the Word before you. Then do the same for those who will come after you. Rejoice together and don’t complete in evangelism. It is a team effort!