EPISODE 771 – THE PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT 1
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah AnsahCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
THE PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT
“Jesus called out to them and said, “Come and follow me, and I will transform you into men who catch people for God.”
Matthew 4:19 (TPT)
When our Lord Jesus called His disciples, He was specific, direct, clear and blunt on what He was going to turn them into.
He was not going to produce “marketplace apostles”. He would not make them lawyers, accountants, successful medical doctors, politicians, Phd holders, international economists, CEOs of multinational empires, engineers, programmers, etc.
Jesus was going to make them new kinds of fishermen. He was going to turn them into men who catch people for God.
Jesus did not call His disciples to essentially improve their fishing business. He called them with the primary intention of transforming them into men who catch people for God.
This doesn’t mean our Lord devalue our individual careers or professions. Neither does it mean that He doesn’t bless our work. The Lord is interested in our career success, because He loves us. He instructs us to work and not be lazy through His word.
However, some believers have redefined the primary assignment of the believer. These people become disciples of Jesus with the perception that the Lord is going to help them succeed in their career or professional ambitions.
Did Jesus not help Peter to catch more fish?
The Lord did help Peter and his friends (Luke 5:4-11), and He continues to help those who believe in Him and respond to the instructions of the Spirit to succeed at what they do.
Irrespective of your career or occupation, your primary assignment as a disciple of Jesus is to make more disciples.
Jesus said, “…I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit…” John 15:16 (NLT)
This is the primary purpose of being a disciple of Jesus; to be like Christ and to become a fisher of men.
As a disciple of Jesus, you are brought into His fellowship and followership, so that through you God will bring many more men into His fellowship and followership.
“Then Jesus came close to them and said, “All the authority of the universe has been given to me. Now go in my authority and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.” Matthew 28:19-20 (TPT)
No matter what you do, you must find yourself catching men for God. That is God’s desire.
He desires that all men shall be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Be the medium by which the Lord’s desire will be fulfilled.
Selah.
Deuteronomy 33 – 34
2 YEARS PLAN
Exodus 13
– I daily avail myself as the medium by which the Lord’s desire will be fulfilled.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
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Comments (45)
Emelia Quaye
– My mind is set on fulfilling the Lord’s primary assignment for me.
– I don’t replace the primary assignment of winning men unto the Lord with any other thing.
– Through me, many are experiencing the knowledge of the truth.
– I daily avail myself as the medium by which the Lord’s desire will be fulfilled.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
axor israel
Glory to Jesus
Sackey Vaness
Thank you apostle, for the message. We make disciples
Prosper Christ
Thank you Jesus
Through me, many are experiencing the knowledge of the truth.
Francis
HALLELUJAH.
axor israel
In the name of Jesus
Millicent
As a disciple of Jesus, you are brought into His fellowship and followership, so that through you God will bring many more men into His fellowship and followership.
Thank you Lord Jesus
axor israel
Hallelujah
Millicent
I daily avail myself as the medium by which the Lord’s desire will be fulfilled…..
I CATCH MEN FOR THE LORD
Francis
I catch men for God.
axor israel
Thank you Lord
Simon Dotse
I take my primary assignment very delicate
axor israel
We catch men for God
Ackah Pricy
My mind is set on fulfilling God’s primary assignment for me
axor israel
Through us many will come to the kingdom
Daniel F. Agbosu
I have made a decision today to be part of the Fisher folk
axor israel
I catch men for God
Anku Beauty
– My mind is set on fulfilling the Lord’s primary assignment for me.
– Through me, many are experiencing the knowledge of the truth.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
axor israel
Hallelujah
Hamdiyah Abubakar
Thank you lord Jesus
Thank you Apostle Bennie for all that you do .
Glory to God!
Gloreeey
Hamdiyah Abubakar
Personal Takeaway is; Jesus’ Call is Clear and Transformative
When Jesus called His disciples, He wasn’t focused on improving their fishing business but on making them “fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).
Lesson: As believers, our primary identity is in Christ, not our careers
axor israel
Ahhh…..
Wanita
Irrespective of my work, relationships, or daily interactions, I catch men for God” by sharing the gospel.
axor israel
Yehaaa we catch men for God
Nkrumah Charles Sarkodie
I go about fulfilling my primary assignment as a disciple of Jesus; I have been called into fellowship and followership of Jesus.
axor israel
Hallelujah
Samuel Larbi
Through me many are experiencing the knowledge of truth
Samuel Larbi
It is God desire that all men shall be saved and come to the knowledge of truth…as a son and a disciple ,i execute My fathers desire and bring many into the knowledge of truth and catch/fish men
axor israel
Glory to Jesus
Samuel Larbi
Thank you Lord for finding me faithful and trusting me with this assignment
Agbeko Triumph Elikplim
Heyaaa! I bring Men into fellowship and followership with Christ.
I catch Men and I teach them to catch much more Men.
Claudia Muange
My mind is set on fulfilling the Lord’s primary assignment for me
Belinda Teye
I go in the authority of Christ Jesus and I make disciples of all nations
Belinda Teye
He called them with the primary intention of transforming them into men who catch people for God.
Through my transformation, I’ve become an agent of change, inspiring Transformation in others.
Belinda Teye
Through me, many are experiencing the knowledge of the truth.
With Me Change has Come!
Benjamin Okyere
Necessity is laid on me
Wow unto me if I preach not Christ
The mandate of God is one not be righteous for it is complete in us but that many will know the truth and be set free from religious entanglements
Benjamin Okyere
To preach Jesus is what expands the kingdom
It he that can set men free and bring men to rest
Oliver Aziabor.
I catch men for God
Edward Atiase
Thank you Jesus.
Hebrews 2: 11 for it became Him, for who all things and by whom all things were made in bringing man sons into glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.
I am glad to be reading this episode.
first all, whenever the bible tells us to bear fruit, one key element of fruit bearing is making disciples for Jesus. In fact, this our core mandate as believers. God didnt make us His glory here on earth for the purpose of our personal ambition to become CEO’s, Presidents and chartered bankers. He made us to be fishers of men! Those that bring in men unto the kingdom. One of His last commandments in scripture is to make students of the kingdom. That is discipleship.
And I am glad to part of God’s plans for my generation
thank you Jesus
Linda Teye
I am a man that catch people for God!
Francis
No matter what you do, you must find yourself catching men for God. That is God’s desire.
Francis
God’s Will
axor israel
Thank you Lord Jesus
Linda Teye
Linda is like Christ, she is a fisher of men!
Linda Teye
I am the medium by which the Lord’s desire is fulfilled