Unlock Your Seer Anointing: How to See Angels and the Spirit Realm Clearly

Ana Werner

Excerpted from The Seer Realm.

Examining the Scriptures, I found that a seer is actually in the Bible.

In fact, it’s actually many times in the Bible. Look it up yourself! In this day and age, we have the amazing ability to type a word into the computer and do a search. Always cross reference what you will find online, though, with the actual Word of God.

In 1 Samuel 9, Saul’s father is in distress because his donkeys have gone missing. Saul and one of his servants go searching everywhere for them. After a long time of looking without success, they decide to try one last thing. “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have set out” (1 Sam. 9:6 NASB). “Come, and let us go to the seer” (1 Sam. 9:9 NASB).

So they go to meet Samuel with the intention to receive some wisdom about how to find these donkeys, but God actually has set up a divine appointment for Saul in this meeting. The seer Samuel sees Saul in the distance and God tells him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! This one shall rule over My people” (1 Sam. 9:17 NASB).

Saul approaches Samuel, and before he can even explain the donkeys Samuel invites him to come and get refreshed, eat some food with him, and get some rest. Then Samuel the seer says, “Oh and by the way, those donkeys that you are looking for—don’t worry about them, they’ve been found.” Imagine Saul’s shock at the prophetic anointing on this guy! Later on, Samuel anoints Saul as King of Israel.

God uses seers like Samuel to speak prophetically into people’s lives. Seers see and then prophesy. People sought out seers in the Bible for wisdom and counsel. Often, though, seers came uninvited to prophesy into a powerful person’s life. God uses a bold seer named Gad to speak strong words to King David that radically change Israel (see 2 Sam. 24). Seers were used in the Bible to radically bring about shift and change.

Seers hear from the Lord primarily through the gift of seeing and then declare things to come.

He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through his prophets (2 Chronicles 29:25 NASB).

Here, there is a distinction between seers and prophets. As confusing as this sounds, all seers can prophesy, but not all prophets can see. Out of the five fold ministry that is mentioned in the Bible, a seer falls under the office of a prophet(see Eph. 4). It’s a prophet with the ability or gift of seeing in the spiritual realm.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:11-12 NASB).

The Start

The scripture that was prophesied over my life was, “He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it” (Gen. 28:12 NASB). Jacob falls into a deep sleep at a place that he later names Bethel. In his dream, heaven is opened to him and he has the ability to see angels ascending and descending upon the earth, and he sees the Lord. So this was the word prophesied over me—essentially, that I would be able to see the super- natural things of God.

At five years old, I saw my first angel. He just showed up one day in my room while I was playing. From what I remember, I didn’t feel threatened or scared by this random angel in my room but felt incredible peace with him. He was dressed in white, had a warm glow about him, and had four wings. I remember asking him if I could touch his wings, and he let me. After we played together for a bit, he told me before he left that he was my guardian angel and that God sent him to always protect me.

After that one encounter, I never saw into the supernatural again until I was 22 and living in Brazil as a missionary. I don’t know why; for years seeing was locked for me. However, once it did open for me to see the things of God again, I trained in it.

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul exhorts the body of Christ to pursue all the gifts: “earnestly desire the greater gifts” (1 Cor. 12:31 NASB). Maybe you’re thinking, Wow this all sounds great, but the gift of seeing in the spirit is just not for me! I encourage you, you’re wrong! We are all called to pursue all the gifts, and this includes seeing.

God doesn’t just give us a gift like seeing, prophesying, or evangelizing and then not call us to train in it. Like any profession, we have to keep training in the things of God. It’s training to reign with Him! Doctors are constantly having to refocus, brush up on their skills, better their abilities, and learn new techniques. It’s how they stay challenged, fresh at their skill, and capable to assist others. In just the same way, we need to train in the gift God has given each of us.

Tips to Seeing in the Spirit

Get into His Presence

Often I get asked if it’s important to be focusing on the Lord, or in a worship mode, to be able to see in the Spirit. My answer is always the same—no and yes. While it helps to hear and see with the Lord if you are in a quiet, contemplative state, sometimes He likes to surprise me, and I’ll randomly be allowed to see something in the spiritual realm when I am not thinking about God at all.

Just the other day, I was doing dishes from the morning’s breakfast and was thinking about how I wished I could have more personal time and hoped my daughter would take her nap without a fight that day. I heard a random knock at the door. I opened the door, and there before me was an angel standing in a top hat carrying a briefcase. He told me that he wanted to meet with me that day but that he would come back once my daughter went down for her nap! And he did!

So yes, God shows seers things sometimes when we are not even expecting it, but more often than not it helps to be focusing on the Lord and getting into His presence to see into the supernatural.