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There is a burning in me to see something great in my lifetime.  I think everyone wants to see something great in their lifetime.  What is it for you?  To see your child born?  To see your to be wife walk up the isle?  Or you to be husband standing there waiting for you to walk up the isle?  To see a sunrise from the top of a forteener in Colorado?  To see what it’s like on the inside of the barrel at pipeline?  A legitimate peace between Israel and Palestine?  U2 in concert from the front row in Ireland?  Your book published?  What is it?  What do you want to see that is great?  I have something burning in my chest to the point at which I feel as if it is about to burst into flames about something that I want to see.  Can I tell you what it is?

I want to see God in all his mercy and grace and power move through me to heal people with mental disabilities.  I’m not talking about feeling a little down after a hard day at work.  I’m talking about schizophrenia, depression, OCD, paranoia, etc.  I want see God restore minds in people who seem to have no choice in the matter.  They are locked in by their minds, punished by the agony not knowing how to not think a certain way.  I am no expert by any means, I just know people and have known people that their lives were upside down, backwards and inside out due to something they couldn’t control with all their might.

I want to see God release healing to minds like I’ve seen him release healing to bodies and relationships.  I’ve seen peoples legs grow several inches right in front of me, I’ve seen people get out wheel chairs that have obviously been in them for a really long time.  I’ve seen mothers and daughters restore a relationship in the matter of one conversation after not speaking for years.  I’ve seen a man who’s heart was in three pieces be healed overnight, completely restored.  I’ve seen all these things but have never seen anyone healed of schizophrenia, or dementia, OCD, or even autism as debatable that may be.  BUT I WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN!!!!  That would be a great thing that I would want to see.  I want to a lot of those other things as well but this is what is pounding in my chest and crying out to God for the mercy and grace and power and anointing to see it happen.

Anyway, I want to say that to believe is to see.  Some may say, and I’ve heard it said that to see is to believe, but In God’s economy it is to believe first, trust that it is his heart to do it.  Lay my hands on those that struggle and suffer or may not even be aware they are affected by it and pray that the God of heaven in all his love and tenderness and passion for the human heart to love Him, would open up the heaven do a miraculous thing and heal the mind, to set it free from the bondage of chemical imbalances and illness and whatever causes these disorders as they call them, and watch to see what God does.  Maybe nothing.  Or maybe, just maybe he will do what it is that I am believing him for!!!  And then I will be able to say that I have seen it.