Dreams and Visions Seen by Charlie Osburn in the Spirit
Good News Ministries constantly ECHO’S
the mandates and decrees which have been given to us through the
Roman Catholic Church. We particularly promote the Decree on the
Apostolate of the Lay People. In this Decree the Church states:
“From the fact of their union with Christ the head, flows the
laymen’s right and duty to be apostles. Inserted as they are in
the mystical body of Christ by baptism and strengthened by the
power of the Holy Spirit in confirmation, it is by the Lord
himself that they are assigned to the apostolate. If they are
consecrated a kingly priesthood and a holy nation, it is in
order that they may in all their actions offer spiritual
sacrifices and bear witness to Christ all the world over.” Good
News Ministries has established a permanent base of operations
in Pensacola, FL in which we will be able to house and train
dedicated lay men and women in the simple teachings of loving
people into the Kingdom of God. The first permanent,
International Catholic School for the Apostolate of the Laity is
a reality in Pensacola, FL. We will be administering a
systematic method of teaching from a curriculum compiled from
the authoritative teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. We will
concentrate on the words of Jesus from the Gospel of Mathew,
Chapters 5, 6 and 7, practical application of the preceding and
personal experience. Our desire is to raise up countless Son’s
and Daughter’s of God who will faithfully carry the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, through word and deed, to the whole world.
YOUNG MEN DREAM DREAMS, OLD MEN HAVE
VISIONS
In 1977 after experiencing the baptism in the Holy Spirit, I had a
succession of dreams and visions. I was at my home on Big Bayou Road
in Warrington, Fl and I had retired for the evening. At some point
during the night I began to have a dream. I saw myself standing
behind a podium and there were a countless number of people standing
in front of and on either side of the podium, a virtual ocean of
people as far as the eye could see. As I stood behind the podium
looking out at all of the people, a young man appeared standing next
to me and he said “you are going to start a school to train catholic
evangelist.” I was not really clear on what this meant due to the
fact I had never heard the words catholic and evangelist used in the
same context. So I said to the young man, “I wouldn’t know anything
about starting a school.” The young man beside me said: “you didn’t
know anything about anything until I showed you.”
The next morning
when I woke up I immediately got ready and left my home to go see
Fr. Jim Smith, my dear personal friend, Priest and confessor at the
Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Gulf Beach Highway. I shared the
dream with Fr. Smith and he instructed me to tell the Bishop, Bishop
Rene H. Gracida what I had just told him. So that day I called the
Bishops office in Tallahassee, FL and made an appointment to see the
Bishop the following day, stating that I had an urgent message I
needed to discuss with him. The appointment was scheduled for 9:00 a.m.
the following morning at the Tallahassee Municipal Airport. I jumped
in the airplane I was using for the ministry and took off in plenty
of time to make the appointment with Bishop Gracida except for one
small detail. Tallahassee, FL is on Eastern Standard Time and
Pensacola is on Central Standard, so I arrived at the airport an
hour late. Bishop Gracida was still there waiting for me. The Bishop
was a little put out by my lack of planning, and you can just
imagine the look on his face when I told him the reason I had asked
for this meeting. I remember saying rather excitedly, “Bishop! I had
a dream and God told me that I was going to build a school to train
Catholic Lay Evangelist.” Bishop Gracida just looked at me and said
that’s wonderful. I then asked the Bishop, how am I going to do
this? Again Bishop Gracida just looked at me and said, "If God called
you to build it, He will show you how". At that the Bishop walked out
of the airport and left me there wondering, what am I going to do
now. For the next 12 years I told everyone everywhere I went that
Good News Ministries was going to establish a School to train
Catholic Evangelist.
12 years later, on June the 6th 1988 in
Pensacola, FL the First International School to train Catholic
Evangelist became a reality under the auspices of Bishop Keith
Simons. Good News Ministries was given a ten year lease on a
building adjacent to St. Anthony’s of Padua in Pensacola to conduct
schools of evangelization which it did for the 10 years. After the
lease was up we moved to Belize, C.A. to build a church and conduct
schools of evangelization throughout the entire country of Belize.
Today the permanent base of operations for the International School
of Evangelization is in Pensacola, FL. Good News Ministries in
conjunction with St Anne’s Catholic Church in Pensacola, FL have
broken ground on the new center to train Catholic Evangelist from
all around the world. We have plans of building facilities to not
only train but to house and support the trainees while they are
involved in their studies.
A VISION OF THE OMNIPOTENT GOD
After my meeting with Bishop Gracida I had my first vision. In the
evenings, after cooking and serving and preaching at the restaurant,
my wife and I would hold hands and sing as we would walk home from
the restaurant due to the fact that we had given away our car. I
would collapse into my bed and the dreams would come. I would find
myself in the middle of the night being awakened with a question
ringing in my head, "Charlie, do you trust me?" I would always answer
the question the same way, "Yes Lord, I trust you with everything."
Immediately following my answer I would hear a resounding response,
"you are a LIAR."
The next night I went through the very same routine.
I was awakened in the middle of the night with a question, "Charlie,
do you trust me?" I would always say, "Yes Lord I trust you" and
immediately I would hear, "You’re a liar." This went on night after
night until one night I said "Lord, if you will show me where I am
not trusting you I will do it." The voice said to me; "Give me your
restaurant!" I said "Lord, I have already given you the restaurant,
it belongs to you." I have a big picture of you in the foyer and
right under the picture is a sign that reads “THE BOSS.” Then the
voice said to me, "Charlie, if I owned that restaurant I wouldn’t
sell the food I would give it away." I answered that thought with
this comment. "Lord I can’t do that I have to make money some how. I
have five children and a house and car to pay for." The Lord then
said to me, " you see Charlie, you don’t trust me at all." I then began
to weep and said, "Lord will you teach me to trust you."
A couple of nights later I was working over the deep fat fryers and
singing to the Lord in the Mama Nunnari Restaurant. We were
preparing for another exciting evening serving God’s people when I
found myself caught up in a vision. I was standing on the edge of
the universe or what seemed to me to be the universe. From where I
was standing it seemed as though I could see everything that was
ever created, the brightness of the lights the beauty of the
vastness of it all. The brilliance of the stars was so amazing that
I covered my face. In a moment I was aware that the same young man
was standing next to me and he said, “I had you in mind Charlie when
I made all of this.” I again looked out at the universe and it
became even brighter and more colorful. The young man then said,
“Even if you had been the only person living on the entire face of
the earth I would have made it all just for you.” At hearing this
statement I was so over come by it all I again hid my face. Then the
young man standing next to me said; “If I have done all of this just
for you don’t you think I could run this dumpy old restaurant.” All
of a sudden I was awake and I ran out of the kitchen to find my wife
Jeanne and told her that we would never again sell anything again
out of this restaurant. So the next day I went to the printers shop
and had them make new menus with the prices removed. That was the
day that my wife and I began the journey of abandonment. Every true
disciple of the Lord Jesus must experience the loss of all things. We must all detach from the traps and the snares of the world to
truly understand the life of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
THE OASIS
One night I was asleep and I had the following dream. I was in the
middle of a parched desert camped out at a beautiful oasis. There
were tall palm trees and the most beautiful pool of water you could
imagine. I was sitting in my camp when I began to see large numbers
of people coming towards the oasis. As the people came closer I
could see that they were all wounded severely with bandages around
their heads and they were all carrying or dragging their weapons in
the sand. The long line of people began to walk into the pool of
water and as they came out on the other side they were all healed of
their wounds, singing praises to the Lord and shouting glory to God. The other thing that I noticed was that as they came out of the pool
they were not carrying any weapons. Their faces were aglow as if
they were on fire and they were all giving thanks to God for
allowing them to enter into the battle of life, the battle of, Agape
Love.
When the International School of Evangelization became a reality in
1986, I was shocked to see that all of the people who were coming to
the school were all wounded. They were full of anger, bitterness,
resentment, hate and jealously. They were angry at the church, angry
at the priest, angry at the nuns, angry with the government, and
angry with each other. They were literally angry with everything.
That is when I began to realize that the school was the oasis. It
was a place where the people who had been fighting the battle of the
world could come and go through the oasis. They could listen to the
teachings of Agape Love and be renewed. The School of Evangelization
was an oasis where the cynicism of life could be washed away by the
healing word of God. And after they had received the cleansing they
could go back out into the world and fight the true battle of life,
the battle of Agape Love. After they had heard the Love message of
God they would all begin to sing praises to the Lord and shout glory
to God to their Father who had healed their wounds. The true battle
we fight is the battle of Agape. Love your enemies. Do good to those
who hate you. Pray for those who mistreat you. If you are slapped on
one cheek turn the other cheek. If they take your coat give them
your shirt also. Give to anyone who ask and do not ask for your
property back from the one who robs you. Treat others as you would
like to be treated. Love one another as I have loved you. Mortal Sin
is the death sin. Yes, if you forgive others their faults, sins and
failings your heavenly father will forgive you of your faults, sins
and failings. If you do not forgive others of their faults, sins and
failings your heavenly father will not forgive you of yours. Jesus
said; “come and I will make you fishers of men.”
We invite you to
come and be refreshed at the OASIS, the International Catholic
School of Evangelization in Pensacola, FL.
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