THE VISION OF THE NET

Charles David Chalson

 

I received this vision from the Lord. He showed me "The Net." Receiving the vision and the revelation of it's meaning came to me simultaneously.

The vision is especially meaningful to me, as it pertains to my ministry call from the Lord that I received many years ago. A main emphasis of the ministry call was that I was to help ministers and all Christians to work together more effectively.
In the vision, there is a large, oval-shaped net. Many Christians are standing around the outer edge of the net. There are not only professional, full-time ministers, but all the Christians in the churches. They are holding the net as if they are using it to catch fish. The Christians holding the net represent a wonderful cooperative spirit of working together to evangelize and reach out to the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Next, God pours out His Spirit and a large wave full of people comes in towards the Christians. The Christians catch all the people in the net. In the vision, God doesn't just bring in one wave. He keeps pouring out His Spirit, bringing in wave after wave full of people towards the ministers! This shows what God is able to do and what He desires to do! The reason God decides to pour out His Spirit in such magnitude, bringing wave after wave, is because all the Christians know how to cooperate with Him in the work of the ministry.

The vision then shows how the Christians are cooperating with God so that the results of the move of His Spirit do not go to waste. The Christians holding the net were able to unload the net quickly in order to have a ready net for the next wave of people that the Spirit brings in.

The Holy Spirit explained to me why they were able to unload the net and be ready for the next wave so quickly. After catching the people in the net, all the Christians knew how to work together efficiently in order to disciple all the new converts who came into their churches. Not only were the new Christians discipled to become spiritually mature, they were all trained and equipped for ministry.

The vision showed that something else was happening! As the new people were trained for ministry, the net grew larger so that the new helpers would have room to find just the right place to help hold it. With more Christians holding the net that kept growing larger and stronger, God was able to pour out His Spirit upon the land in greater measure! The waves kept getting bigger and bigger, one right after another, filled with people!

This was a beautiful picture of God and His people cooperating together! This is a healthy Church, strong and mature, with each member in position, in their proper place. This is Christ's Body functioning properly, with each joint supplying. God is ready! His Spirit is moving! Nothing is impossible for God! He desires to bring a new move which will grow stronger and stronger. God is building a new wineskin that will hold His new wine that He is pouring out.

Further Revelation of The Net:
God's Strategy for Community Transformation 

The dynamic nature and quality of this next new move of God will require a different mindset for Christian leaders and all Christians. There will be a new way of relating between Christian leaders and all the Christians in the churches. We must all recognize anything that is done that restricts God's people from rising up int their godly potential. Jesus wants to be free to flow through everyone with His unlimited love, wisdom, and power! It is wonderful how churches are learning how to allow Jesus to live and work powerfully through everyone!

There will be a new appreciation for the necessity for each Christian to be loyal, committed, and disciplined. There will be a new realization that everyone must share the awesome responsiblity of cooperating with God in bringing in the Great Harvest. There will be a new respect for the freedom that Christ has won for each person. There will be a new focus for our time, finances, and energy. There will be a new understanding for what true Christian ministry really involves. There will be a new acceptance that the privilege and honor of ministry is for each of us; not just for a few professional clergy!

In the revivals of the past, there have only been a few professional ministers available to train and disciple the tremendous influx of new Christians. It is no wonder that revivals have always stopped after several years! Our Lord Jesus Christ wants His people to be full of His Spirit and Glory and He also wants us to be MATURE. He wants us to be mature disciples who are well grounded in the Word of God. He wants His people to be strong soldiers who know how to set captives free. He wants us to work together to transform our communities and cities. He wants us to bring the Kingdom of God to the nations.

Our Lord Jesus Christ not only wants us to feel His love and power, He also wants to live in us and minister through us with His unlimited love, wisdom and power! This means that Christians must be mature disciples. That takes training!

There will be a new a new way of relating between Christians and their leaders. Jesus is building the new Church and these new changes will enable His Body to grow mature and strong and function effectively. Each member of the Body, each person in the Church will assume responsibility for holding The Net!

Why is it necessary for Christ's Church to grow mature and strong? We must be able to cooperate with what God is planning to do. How do I know that all of these things will happen? Christ's Church will become how He is building it to be. How is He building it? He's building it into an army! A few days after receiving the vision of 'The Net', the Holy Spirit reminded me that God had mentioned this 'Net' in a prophecy that He gave me several years ago, called The Prophecy For Baltimore. You may read the complete Prophecy For Baltimore in the "About Ministry Impossible" section. 

Written below is that part of The Prophecy For Baltimore where God says that the army He is building is a net. It is a net that will hold the many people that He will bring into His Church. Keep in mind that He is building an army. This means that the Church He is building will make soldiers who will become disciplined and fit for His army. Yes, Christians will stand strong and valiant in battle! The army of Jesus Christ will be capable of victorious spiritual warfare. It will go forth, loving and honoring people, yet will conquer the spiritual forces of evil, in His mighty name!! Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus!! 

For I am building My Church!
I am building an army!
A net that will hold many;
That I will bring, and call,
And hearken to My Name,
Through My love!

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,

I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men
shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will
pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:  The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 2:16-21

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth
the things that are sown in it to spring forth;
so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and
praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:11

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:11-16

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Matt. 28:19 -20