How to Grow in the Seer Gift with Blake Healy
Most believers know seeing in the spirit is real. What they don't know is what to do with it, and especially, what to do when it terrifies them.
Blake Healy has been seeing in the spirit since he was two years old. He's watched angels cheer on an elderly woman learning to swim in a public pool. He's seen demonic entities wearing expressions of terror, not triumph. He's been through three and a half years of nightly torment as a child, emerged from it, and spent the decades since helping others understand what they're experiencing.
Blake is the director of the Bethel Atlanta School of Supernatural Ministry and the author of Profound Good: Seeing Through the Lens of God's Love. His conversation with Dan Duval on the Discovering Truth podcast is one of the more practically useful discussions of the seer gift you'll find, grounded in real experience, not theory.
The idea that a spiritual gift grows with use is not a modern invention. It is how the Bible describes gifts from the start. Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift already inside him: "Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands" (2 Timothy 1:6). A gift can lie quiet, or it can be fanned into flame. The choice belongs to the person who carries it.
Paul also told believers to reach for the gifts on purpose: "Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts" (1 Corinthians 14:1). And he warned Timothy not to let a gift sit idle: "Do not neglect the gift that is in you" (1 Timothy 4:14). Seeing in the spirit follows the same pattern. It is stirred up, pursued, and practiced. This is exactly what Blake Healy describes when he says the gift grows through attention and repetition rather than a single dramatic moment.
What Does It Actually Feel Like to See in the Spirit?
The question almost everyone has for seers is: how does it work? Is it involuntary? Does God flip a switch and suddenly you see?
Blake's answer reframes the whole conversation. He describes the gift using a simple metaphor: it's like choosing what to focus on through a windshield. The dust and water spots are always there on the glass. Whether you're looking at them or through them to the road ahead is a matter of intention. The spiritual realm, he says, isn't an "other place." It's part of the same creation God designed. What seers learn to do is focus attention on a layer of reality that others haven't been trained to notice.
This stands in sharp contrast to the popular model that treats spiritual gifts as purely passive. God pushes the button, you experience it, God turns it off. Blake distinguishes between using a tool the Father gave you and the Father wrapping his hand around yours to guide that tool. Both happen. But the expectation that you never initiate, never look, never try: that model has caused a lot of people with genuine perception to assume something is wrong with them.
Why Many Seers Shut Down Their Gift Early
Blake's own childhood illustrates how easily this gift gets suppressed, not through direct attack, but through ordinary cultural feedback. When he mentioned what he saw to classmates, he got blank stares. No one told him to stop. He just quietly concluded it was impolite to talk about the golden ladies.
This is one of the most insightful moments in the conversation. Social pressure doesn't have to be hostile to be effective. Children who see in the spirit often learn, well before anyone actively rebukes them, that the safest move is silence. That silence, if it extends long enough, becomes habit, and then becomes a kind of spiritual numbness.
For anyone who had experiences like this in childhood and then watched them fade, this podcast is worth hearing. It names what happened with real precision.
The Night Terror Problem. And What Actually Resolved It
For Blake, the age of nine brought a sharp transition. Demonic things he'd seen without much fear suddenly carried overwhelming dread, every night, for three and a half years. The shift happened without an obvious cause. He didn't know how to explain it to his parents, so he minimized it.
What finally broke it wasn't a dramatic deliverance session. It was context. When his family found a church that actually trained people in the gifts of the Spirit, Blake finally had a grid for what he was experiencing. He told his parents the full truth. And over the course of one week, the torment stopped.
This matters because Bride Movement's ministry regularly encounters people who have been in a version of that torment for much longer, without ever finding a community equipped to respond. The seer gift, left without proper formation, creates suffering instead of service.
Three Practical Steps Blake Uses to Help People Activate
For those who want to grow in spiritual perception, Blake lays out a deceptively simple starting framework:
First, ask the Holy Spirit where to look. Not how to see, just where to direct attention. This shifts the posture from striving to partnering.
Second, keep your eyes open. The reflex is to close them. But starting with open eyes, looking for both large and obvious things and small or faint ones (a flicker, a color, a blur of movement), trains the mind to engage rather than retreat.
Third, ask questions. Whatever appears, however faint, bring it to the Holy Spirit in conversation. Why is that there? What does this mean? What are you showing me? The seer gift grows through dialogue, not just observation.
Blake is clear that this is a process. Some people begin seeing clearly within weeks. Others spend years receiving impressions before a visual dimension opens. The mountain is the same. The starting angles are different.
How long does it take to develop the seer gift? There is no set timeline. Blake Healy notes that some people begin seeing clearly within a few weeks, while others spend years receiving faint impressions before their sight sharpens. The growth comes from steady practice, not from a single breakthrough.
Can the seer gift be lost? The gift itself does not disappear, but it can go quiet when it is ignored, suppressed, or shut down by fear. That is why Scripture urges believers to stir up the gift rather than neglect it (2 Timothy 1:6, 1 Timothy 4:14).
Do I need a special calling to see in the spirit? Not necessarily. While some people carry a strong seer gift from childhood, Scripture invites every believer to desire spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 14:1). Growing in spiritual sight is available to anyone willing to practice and to stay under the Lordship of Jesus.
Is it dangerous to grow in spiritual sight? Spiritual sight is safe when it stays surrendered to the Holy Spirit and grounded in Scripture. The danger comes from seeking the spirit realm on your own terms, apart from Jesus, which is what New Age practice does. Growth under godly guidance and community, as Blake describes, keeps the gift healthy.
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