Your Assignment

One of the goals of ezerwatchers.com is to help women learn how to effectively fulfill their various assignments in the kingdom of God. If you are one of the many women who are asking, “But how can I find my assignment?” this blog post uses the first two chapters of the book of Nehemiah to provide insight on how you can identify your assignment and how to prepare for the execution of the assignment.

1. You don’t have to go looking for your assignment. Your assignment will find you. (Neh. 1:1-3)
2. You will know it is your assignment because it will hit your spirit, affect your mind, and cause a burden to be conceived in your soul. (Neh. 1:4)
3. That burden will then drive you to prayer, to seeking God (Neh. 1:5-11). Your prayer will not be about “they” and “them”, but “us”. You will find yourself owning the problem that your assignment is assigned to solve.
4. God will begin to connect you with someone or people who have the necessary resources to fund the assignment. (Neh. 1:11, last clause)
5. Timing is key. Be sensitive to God’s timing to know when to solicit help from that connection (Neh. 2:1, 3 months later)
6. Research. Seek God beforehand to know the needs of the assignment. Be ready with a “business plan” or proposal for when that connection approaches you (Neh. 2:4).

In addition, here is a list of things that the assignment will require:

1. Permission to go/do something specific. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” (Neh. 2:5 NKJV). After you have identified your assignment (that specific thing that you know God is asking you to do), you will still need to wait for authorization and a release from the Lord God.
   
2. An allotted time frame. Then the king said to me (the queen also sitting beside him), “How long will your journey be? And when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. (Neh. 2:6 NKJV) Seek Him not only to know the time to go but for the length of time that you should be on that assignment.
   
3. A safe means to get you to the place of your assignment. Furthermore I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region beyond the River, that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah. (Neh. 2:7 NKJV)
   
4. Materials/Resources to do the actual task and for your sustenance during the time you will be embarked on that assignment. And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me. (Neh. 2:8 NKJV)
   
5. Protection. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. (Neh. 2:8 NKJV) Remember, not because you are on an assignment from God, it means that you will not have opposition and adversaries. It is a guarantee that you will have both. So be sure to petition the King for protection; for the accompaniment of his army.

Dear Lord God, thank You for Your words of wisdom and instructions. Thank You for clarifying for me the way that I should go. Holy Spirit, please help me in my weakness. Grant me the stamina needed to stay before the Father in prayer until I receive the plan for my assignment. Lead me to that connection who You have blessed with the resources for this assignment. Lord, I ask for your intervention, in no other name than the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN!