Strategies for Harvest
By Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town. 13th July 2025

1. Lift up your vision.
Lift up your eyes the harvest is ready. Don’t allow your vision to drop and look at what is immediately around you – if you look up you can see what’s coming! In this case, it was ana entire village that came to see the man that ministered to a notorious woman of the district and gave her a new identity.
Jesus was showing His disciples that their harvest was coming. He sowed the seeds, and they would follow up later. Don’t take it too personally when people reject you at first. It is part of the cross of Christ you carry. Become faithful Sowers of the word and allow the incorruptible seed to do its thing. Some sow, others water but God gives the increase/ pastor Bert Pretorious encouraged me once: “You can’t afford to be disillusioned. You continue to give the output, and God will take care of the outcome in ministry.” His encouragement has been applied, and I have seen new fruit in ministry both at home and abroad. God sends people to you to give you momentum. If you receive the sent ones in your life, you will access the rewards for receiving them.
Jesus used words of knowledge and the gifts of the spirit to reach the woman at the well:
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.”
The outcome?
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.”

2. Prayer
Download new strategies for harvest through spending time with the Lord I prayer. We anchor our understanding of Jesus’ prayer principles in the Lord’s Prayer from Matt. 6. We have been exploring the Sermon on the Mount since last week where Jesus called His disciples to Himself and began to proclaim His kingdom principles to them. Part of His kingdom is a lifestyle of prayer.
Mat 6:5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Mat 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Mat 6:7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Mat 6:8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
Mat 6:9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
Mat 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Your “room” is as much a physical place of seclusion with the Lord, as it is a spiritual place where you can be alone with the Lord. There is a time for corporate prayer like in Acts:
Act 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Our mentors in the faith have taught us about practising the presence of God as a daily habit. Honouring the Lord and hallowing His name opens the permission to pray – Jesus has unlocked the blessings and promises in God, and redeemed us from the curses that prevented us from communing with God.
We access the heavenly realms through prayer while in an earthly existence. The focus is seeking first His kingdom – which Jesus explains after the prayer in Matt. 6:33.
When we focus on His kingdom and His righteousness, His way of doing things versus our own opinions, it unlocks prayers that get answers.
When we pray – we should pray for ourselves and for others. There is a balance in prayer that ensures we are building our relationships with God while also caring for the needs of others in our circles – our ‘neighbours.’ Loving our neigh bours as ourselves begins in prayer. If you can pray fro someone you can truly love them. If you can forgive someone in prayer, you can be forgiven too.
When we ask for His kingdom to come – we are aligning ourselves with the intents and purposes of God:
Rom. 8:28 – if we love God and are called according to His purpose, He allows all thigs to work out fro our good. He finds a way!
Aligning with kingdom principles in prayer, releases purpose and divine orchestration of lives into a harmonious flow with h leading of the Holy Spirit – who always honours and reminds us of what Jesus said.

3. Visions and Prophetic Coaching
People don’t readily enjoy correction especially in the prophetic realm. But we find a clear instruction for prophetic gifting in 1 Cor. 14
1Co 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge.
1Co 14:30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.
1Co 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
1Co 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Habakkuk is a noteworthy voice in the Old Testament, yet look at his attitude and humility to receive correction:
Hab 2:1 I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.
Hab 2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
Hab 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
There are fine adjustments in strategy that come to those who stand their watch and hear from God’s counsel. Allow the Holy Spirit to coach you. Sometimes, He sends people to you with advice – a wise son will hear and increase in learning.

When you are trusting God for the salvation of friends and family, go and shut yourself in for prayer where you can’t be disturbed. For some it is in their vehicle on the way to work – then switch off the radio and speak to God. For torchers they like to quiet early in the morning, for some they like to give the last minutes of day to the Lord in prayer – find your rhythm and don’t make it a burden -it is a privilege to speak to God, and it is to prioritize above all else.

Let’s Apply these strategies
• When is a suitable time for you to pray?
• Make a list of people you are praying for: and download some strategies for their salvation.
• Which gifts of the Spirit are stirring in you for them?
• How can you align those words, gifts with scriptures from the Bible?
• Once you have acted on the strategies, give some feedback to your local household who can continue to pray with you for further following up of the precious harvest of souls!