Seeing in the Spirit: Blake Healy on the Seer Gift

Most people who can see in the spirit don't talk about it. Not because it's shameful, but because they learned early on that it wasn't safe to mention the golden ladies dancing during church or the lights drifting around a drive-through window.

Blake Healy is one of the rare people who kept showing up anyway.

Blake is the director of the Bethel Atlanta School of Supernatural Ministry and author of Profound Good: Seeing Through the Lens of God's Love. He's been seeing in the spirit since before he could articulate what that meant. In this episode of Discovering Truth with Dan Duval, he does something most teachers don't: he gets practical about it.

One of the first things Blake dismantles is the idea that the seer gift only operates when God decides to activate it. That framework, where the believer is essentially a passive receiver waiting for God to push a button, keeps a lot of people stuck.

The better metaphor, Blake explains, is your hand resting in a neutral position. You can close it completely. You can open it completely. Or you can choose to engage with intention. The gift is there. The question is whether you're extending your attention toward it.

He compares it to driving a car and choosing to focus on the windshield itself rather than the road beyond it. You can see the dust particles and water spots on the glass any time. They're always there. You just aren't always focused on them. Seeing in the spirit works the same way.

This reframe matters enormously for people who experienced a dramatic first encounter with the gift and then spent years waiting for it to happen again.

Blake sees spiritual wounds the way a doctor sees physical ones. Some are fresh cuts. Some are healing. Some are infected, and you can tell the difference.

Infected wounds, spiritually speaking, tend to involve bitterness, unforgiveness, or belief systems built around the hurt. He's also seen what he calls "devices in the wound," things holding an injury open, usually a lie the person has partnered with that reinforces the damage.

His advice is straightforward: we need mothers and fathers in our lives who can help us respond correctly when we get hurt. A child who burns his hand on the stove needs a parent present to give him the right information about what happened, not to conclude that stoves are evil and must be avoided forever. The same logic applies to getting hurt by the prophetic, by a pastor, by a community. One bad experience doesn't indict the whole gift.

He watched two friends with nearly identical backgrounds (abusive fathers, unstable mothers, rough early marriages) go two entirely different directions. One kept pushing his wounds down until they exploded his life. The other went hunting for counsel, for spiritual parents, for people who would keep kicking him back into the game. That friend's wounds healed. New ones came. Those healed too. His marriage is strong. He's in ministry. The contrast wasn't about the severity of what they went through. It was about whether they chose to let healing happen.

One of the most memorable moments in the conversation is Blake's story from the pool. He's there with his family when an older woman arrives wearing children's water wings, a swim cap, a diving mask, foam noodles, and two paddle boards. She's doing her best. She makes it a few feet, huffs and puffs her way back to the edge, then does it again.

Blake looks up. Her personal angel is on the water in front of her, jumping up and down, pumping her fists, screaming go, go, you've got this.

Just to her right, a demon is scratching at the back of her head, and its face is covered in terror.

When Blake asks what's happening, he hears: She almost drowned as a little girl and decided today she was going to get over that fear.

Later his wife talks to the woman. Turns out she's decided this year to stop letting fear keep her from her dreams. She's learning to swim this week. She's going skydiving next week.

What Blake saw was spiritual oppression actively confronting someone, and losing, not because of a formal deliverance session, but because the woman simply decided to face the thing she feared.

Blake's practical steps for developing the seer gift are worth writing down:

Ask the Holy Spirit where to look. Then actually look there, with your eyes open. Don't jump straight to closing them. He's had people see something immediately in those first few seconds with eyes open that they would have missed entirely.

Look for big things, but also look for small things. An outline. A wash of color. A shimmer like heat distortion. These are invitations to more.

If you don't see anything visually, ask the Holy Spirit to tell you what's there. You might get an impression, a knowing, or an image in your mind. That's not a lesser version of the gift. That's still the gift working.

Then ask questions about what you're perceiving. Build vocabulary. The seer gift grows through repeated partnership, not through waiting for dramatic experiences to validate it.