Become a Harvester
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town. 4th April 2026

We are commissioned to go and make disciples of all nations, and commanded to love God and humanity. If you are a Harvester member, you understand the forces at work that help us sustain an orbit around Christ in the centre of all our activities.
For something to multiply, you need the formula. God is about to increase us as a move in the earth. We have laid a solid foundation of apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ the Cornerstone of this church movement. We have redefined orbital networking around the core revelation of Christ and dismantled religious pyramid systems. The Lord of the Harvest is calling for laborers in the harvest now – it is late in the day and there is still so many souls to be saved – let us make an intentional decision to be a harvester with Jesus and answer the call!
Here are the three steps to entering to becoming a Harvester with Jesus:
Convert; Commune; Commission

Convert:
Peter Preached repentance for conversion, we should not shy away from speaking about repentance in our Gospel of Christ. We all live a lifestyle of repentance – as we study in our Faith Foundation Course. Repentance is not just saying we’re sorry but transforming from glory to glory with each encounter we have with Christ as part of His living body of believers.
Act 2:38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act 2:39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
We’ve all sinned and fall short of God’s glory
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
Rom 3:22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What is the solution?
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1Pe 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
God will permit us to progress only once we have laid the foundation stones of our faith properly:
Heb 6:1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Heb 6:2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb 6:3 And this we will do if God permits.
We need to check the list of foundation stones that are in place and are understood, lived out and passed on. Then God can continue the work of perfecting us to be more like Jesus individually and corporately.
Conversion means we partake of a process in the context of a local church, in mutual submission with one another and under the Lordship of Christ. We submit to the leadership God has given us as gifts, not as a religious duty, but as coaches who can equip us to run the race of faith more effectively.
It includes the baptism in water and in the Holy Spirit with fire that cleanses and helps us put on Christ as a new creation. True conversion embraces all God offers.
As part of the greater Household of Faith (Gal. 6:10) and the Church of the Firstborn registered in heaven (Heb12:22-24), we need to know how we can relate to other ministries. If they believe in the core principles of our faith, we can ignore minor differences and collaborate with them. We do this prayerfully and build long term relationships where the fruit in our lives and theirs reflect the love of Christ Jesus over time.
We network as wheels within wheels to give momentum to other ministries and vice versa. (Ezekiel 1:20)

Commune.
In order to draw friends into communion with Christ, they need to understand a few things first:
Love is linked to obedience and commitment to Christ. That is the force that keeps us in orbit together and generates momentum for our faith. Communion should not be carried out in an unworthy manner. ( 1 Corinthains 11:23-30)
We need to clean our hearts of unforgiveness and confess our sins to God, receiving His work on the cross on our behalf. When you are part of a church, you need to show regular commitment to church meetings and weekly Household Church meetings in your area. This is important because the early church did the same – the apostles taught them publicly and from house to house. (Acts 20:20)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
Heb 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Benefits of becoming a committed Christian:
• Single-mindedness
• Steadfastness under any circumstances.
• Willingness and obedience that allows you to
eat the good of the land: Isaiah 1:19
• Discipline and spiritual growth
• Sacrifice releases great blessings
• Protection from false teachings
• Training and Maturity through the different
phases of Christian growth
• Shared corporate blessings and resources.
• Family values and care for every age group
• Discovery of purpose and function in the Body
of Christ locally and globally,

We meet weekly at Harvester Households
Types of Harvester Households: In homes, at work, schools, Friday youth, prayer groups, men and ladies

Harvester Household Weekly Meetings
The ingredients of a Harvester Household in a home is as follows:
1. Thanksgiving
2. Praise and Worship
3. Word and teaching
4. Ministry
5. Prayer and Corporate
Prayer
6. Offering
7. Outreach

Commission.
The force that balances communion and love is the commission to go and make disciples of all nations – inward and outward force in balance helps us to orbit around Jesus Our Lord and Saviour and Head of the Church. He wants us to have an intimate relationship with Him yet not neglect others who don’t. Reaching out is a harvester’s solid spiritual food – My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish the work! Churches that just focus inward – implode eventually so people are forced to reach out. For us, the commission has been strong for decades, the communion is sweet for those who have sacrificed much for the kingdom of God and we find great comfort in meeting together with the precious saints of the Lord in congregational services, at homes, in Bible cells, at special momentum occasions like our upcoming ONE Harvest Conference.

At Harvester, we are privileged to have access to fivefold ministries in our network and at our base of operations in Burgundy Estate, Cape Town, South Africa.
Eph 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
Eph 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
Eph 4:13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Eph 4:14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
Eph 4:15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Our good fruit will be noticed by those who are hungry. Galatians 5:22,23; Revelation 22:2; John 15:2 God raises branches that don’t bear fruit so that they can have more sunlight. (G142 airō (pronounced: ah’ee-ro; A primary verb; to lift; by implication to take up or away; figuratively to raise (the voice),)
The living waters that flow from us will nourish the thirsty. The love we have for God and one another will be savored in our communities and will draw people to the hope we have in Christ. When they ask us concerning the hope that we have, we will be ready with an answer. We steward the harvest with loving care and respect and handle every point of conversion in prayer, with accurate follow up systems, like our online data capturing that alerts Harvesters in different parts of the city to follow up seekers of God who have tasted and see that the Lord is good in us. The goal is to see people converted to Christ to give them access to the communion of the saints, that will eventually equip them to continue the great commission the repeat and scale the harvest together and sustain the care for those new believers. A good vision is simple; scalable and sustainable.