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ON ASSIGNMENT Lynette Badenhorst of Hadassah Ministries on Purpose, Surrender and What Is In Your Hands

Before you were born, God wrote your assignments down. Not vaguely, not generally — specifically. There was a clipboard, and on that clipboard was your name, and under your name was a list of things He needed you to do while you were on this earth. A book to write. A ministry to start. A radio station to launch. A group of women to gather. A child to raise a certain way. A word to speak at exactly the right moment. None of it accidental. All of it assigned. And right now, some of those assignments are sitting in a storeroom in heaven, waiting for you to pick them up.

Lynette Badenhorst of Hadassah Ministries brought this word to JustGospel Women Voices with the kind of clarity that comes from a woman who has lived it personally. Not theory. Not theology from a distance. A message forged in the fire of stepping out, staying faithful and watching God multiply what she put in His hands.

Jesus Completed His Assignment — What About Yours?

The anchor scripture for everything Lynette shared is found in John 17, the chapter where Jesus prays not only for His disciples but for every believer who would come after them. He says something to the Father that stops you in your tracks if you sit with it long enough.

Not halfway. Not mostly. Down to the last detail. Jesus came to earth on assignment and He finished it. Every detail. And because His life is in every believer, Lynette said, what Jesus said to the Father is the same thing we are called to say. Father, I glorified You on earth by completing, down to the last detail, what You assigned to me. The question is whether we will be able to say it.

Paul said the same thing. His life had one purpose: to finish the work assigned to him. He did not live for comfort, for reputation or for safety. He lived to complete what was on his clipboard. And Lynette's invitation to every listener is the same: stop treating your life as something to be managed and start treating it as something to be completed.

Your Passion Is a Clue

One of the most practical things Lynette offered is this: your passion and your assignment are tightly intertwined. If you have been wondering what you are here for, start with what you cannot stop caring about. The thing that keeps you up at night. The injustice that breaks your heart. The gap you keep noticing that no one else seems to see. That is not an accident. That is a clue.

"The things you are passionate about are very tightly intertwined with your assignment. If you are passionate about children and children's ministry, that is linked directly to your assignment."

Lynette Badenhorst

And the assignments are not all grand. They are not all stadiums and platforms and international ministries. Some assignments are a small group of women meeting on a Wednesday afternoon. A conversation with a neighbour. A meal cooked for someone in crisis. A prayer prayed faithfully for years over a person who has not yet come to faith. Every assignment matters. Every single one.

God Can Only Multiply What You Surrender

This is the line that changed the room. Lynette was mid-conversation when it came out, almost quietly, and then it landed like a stone dropping into still water.

The boy with the five loaves and two fish. If he had held on to his lunch, 5,000 people go hungry. There is no miracle in a closed fist. The miracle only happens when he opens his hand and gives what he has to Jesus. That is the moment multiplication becomes possible. And it is the same with your assignment, your gift, your business, your ministry, your idea. You cannot manufacture the growth. You can only surrender what is in your hand and watch what God does with it.

The Storeroom in Heaven

Lynette drew the parallel directly. The storeroom of unclaimed blessings and the assignments we never completed are the same thing. God had things prepared for you to do in advance. Assignments written on a clipboard before you were born. And many of them are still sitting in a storeroom because we got too tired, too discouraged, too afraid of what people would say, or too convinced that what we had in our hands was not enough.

The Parable of the Talents Revisited

Lynette reread the Parable of the Talents with one word changed: instead of talents, read assignments. The man with five assignments immediately went to work. The man with two did the same. The man with one buried it. He kept it safe. He held on to it. And when the master returned, the one assignment was taken from him and given to the man with five.

"If you don't surrender and if you don't take what is in your hand and invest and multiply it, God is going to take it away. And you will not get a chance to do that assignment. Maybe we have a grace period for it. And when that grace is finished, God gives it to the next person."

Lynette Badenhorst

That is not a comfortable thought. But it is an honest one. There are assignments with a grace period attached to them. A season in which God is extending the invitation, sending the people, opening the doors, whispering the prompting. And when we keep saying not yet, not me, I am not ready, I do not have enough, we risk the grace period closing. The assignment does not disappear. It simply goes to someone else who said yes.

What Is In Your Hands Right Now?

God asked Moses the same question. Moses had every excuse. He was not eloquent. He was not powerful. He was not important. He had nothing to offer the most powerful ruler in the world. And God said: Moses, what is in your hand? A staff. That is all. A walking stick. And God took that staff and parted a sea with it.

Lynette pressed the same question into the room. What is in your hands right now, today, this week? Not what you wish you had. Not what you are waiting to have before you start. What do you actually have? Start there. Be faithful with the small thing. Lynette started with a small group of women doing charity work. God multiplied it into outreaches of 200 people. Then workshops. Then a worship event in January that moved an entire room. It started small. It started with what was in her hands.

The Donkey, the Father and the Son

"Stop listening to the voices of people if you have heard the voice of God. God's voice should be the only voice that you hear. No matter what people say, let them say what they need to say. But let God's voice be the only voice."

Lynette Badenhorst

The Crucial Part: Intimacy With God

Everything Lynette said leads to this. You cannot know your assignments if you do not know the One who wrote them. You cannot fulfil them without His presence, His direction, His daily instruction. Every morning is an opportunity to ask: Lord, what is my assignment for today? Not in addition to your work, your family, your responsibilities — but woven through all of it. What specifically do You need me to finish today?

Because intimacy is not a luxury for the spiritually advanced. It is the infrastructure for the assignments. Without it, Lynette said plainly, you will live past your assignments entirely. You will die with a storeroom full of unclaimed blessings and unfinished work. And the assignments will go on without you.

This message was shared live on JustGospel during Women Voices, hosted by Carlett Badenhorst on the Joyful Journey Home drive show. Listen live at justgospelrtv.co.za or find the podcast on Spotify.