>> Hello, my name is Blake Healy,
I'm part of the senior team at Bethel Church in Atlanta
and I'm the director of the Bethel Atlanta School
of Supernatural Ministry.
A big part of my testimony
is that for as long as I can remember,
I've seen angels, demons and other spiritual things
with my eyes the same way I'd be seeing you if you're with me.
>> And I want to share one story about that happened about, gosh,
I guess it was about 15 years ago.
I was I was in a time where I was trying to figure out
what I was going to do with my life,
what God had for me.
And there was just a lot of options.
And I was trying to figure out, Lord,
what do you want me to do? And what's what's the best way?
And so I was in a night service on a Sunday night and worship
was just coming to an end.
And immediately I just felt this compulsion like I need
to I need to go outside.
I didn't know why. I just felt this compulsion.
I need to go outside. And so it was the awkward time
when everyone was trying to sit back down.
And so I was bumping into people
as I was walking my way out of the out of the aisle
and walked outside to the parking lot.
And there's this little hill at the top of the parking lot.
And I felt like I was supposed to go up there.
And so I walked up the hill. And as I as I did,
I I saw this angel standing at the top of the hill.
Now, because seeing angels has been part of my life
for as long as I can remember,
it's not something that's ever really been frightening for me
or really that surprising.
In fact, when I would hear stories of angels
starting their message with, you know, be ye not afraid,
I always wondered, why would they say that?
Because angels aren't very scary.
This angel changed my mind, though.
It it was covered head to toe in fire.
And it was just it was burning so brightly
that I couldn't even really see it
very clearly through through the flames.
And there was even more than its appearance,
you know, it was it was at least over ten feet tall.
And even though even more than its appearance,
there was this just this heat, this energy radiating from it.
And the best way I can describe it
is it felt as if this angel like
if you were near a campfire at night time
and there was a coal that was at the very center of the fire
that had been kind of kicked out of the fire,
and you could see the heat radiating off of it
in the cold night air,
this angel was like that. I could feel it.
This angel had been close to God
in a way that I had never been before,
and it was radiating with the heat of that encounter.
And so as I went up there, the angel started talking to me
about what God wanted to do with my life.
And one of the things that he did was he pulled out
this scroll and on the scroll, it was kind of a navy blue,
like this dark, dark blue background with this line.
And there were all of these lines going in
all these different directions. And the lines were moving.
They were splitting this way
and moving that way and intersecting.
And I knew that every single line represented a plan
that God had for my life,
an idea that he that he had for my life and
and the people that I would interact with,
the people that I would connect with,
and every single one of these things
were interconnecting and going back
and going all these different directions and reorganizing.
And I realized that the reason it was all moving
was because that represented all of the choices that people had.
You know, at the time I was
I was dating the woman who is now my wife
and the mother of my five children.
And I was even deciding there Lord,
is this the right person for me?
And I could see versions of this plan
where we chose to marry each other
and our lines connected,
and then a different version where we chose not to.
And I realized as all of this moved in, perfect elegance,
I felt like it was an idea
that was too big for me to really understand myself.
>> I really felt like I was holding the corner
of a very, very large blanket,
like I could just kind of hold on to one little piece of it.
I realized that the perfect the perfect nature of God's plan
was that he had created people, that he had given free will to,
that he had given options, choices,
that he had created a world
where we could choose all kinds of things
and that his plan was accommodating,
ready for, was prepared for every single choice
that anyone could have possibly made.
And grasping that idea, just a corner of it
completely overwhelmed my mind. And the amazing thing
was that as I as I look back at the angel,
after looking at the looking at the scroll,
I could see through the fire a little bit more clearly.
I could see that this angel was wearing these beautiful,
ornate robes that were covered in jewels
that that even the the gold
that the jewels were set in was was ornate and beautiful.
>> It almost looked organic,
like like like the way that leaves grow
and even the way that the jewels were set in them
wasn't with fasteners like we do when we make jewelry.
It was it was as if the jewels themselves
were growing out of the gold like it was something organic.
And again, it was just unspeakably beautiful.
And as I was seeing this, I just had this realization
that the the more that we learn about who God is,
the more it makes room to know more about who he is.
The more that we hear his voice,
the more we have room for more of his voice,
that he is inviting us to know him more and more and more,
to understand him more and more and more.
And, you know, that's what I really believe
seeing in the spirit is. It's an invitation to know
God more, to know his plans,
to know his purposes, to know what he's doing
and to know what he's going to do.
I had a friend tell me once that, you know,
I don't know if I like that idea because I want it to be mystery.
>> I want there to be I like the idea
that that things are bigger than I can understand.
Well, the great thing about God is that he's infinite.
There is there is no limit.
No matter how much we understand of him,
no matter how much we learn about who he is
and what his plans are, there is always more.
And I had this very thought as I was looking at this plan
that I felt like
maybe I kind of understood that plan a little bit.
>> And the second that I had that thought,
the angel turned the scroll on the side and pulled it.
And the the image that had just been a moving two
dimensional picture on the scroll
on the scroll immediately turned three dimensional.
And the little itty bitty piece that I felt like I understood
of how that plan worked,
how it accommodated all those choices immediately
became way too overwhelming for my brain.
And it felt I felt like a plug
that had been plugged into a socket
that was had way too much electricity behind it
and just felt kind of fried, like I couldn't understand that.
>> And that's the beauty of knowing God and
and pursuing gifts like the prophetic
and seeing in the spirit is that we get to be invited in
to understanding more of who he is,
of peeling back the layers of mystery
of all of the beautiful truths that he's hidden for us.
And the last thing I just kind of wanted to share with that
is I've met a lot of people who pursue the mystery of God,
who pursue just these amazing encounters with him.
And I think it's a beautiful thing to pursue encounter.
God wants to encounter us more and more and more.
The one thing I'll add and I'm very grateful
because I feel like the Lord
has put these people in my path throughout my life.
Is the safest way for us to reach out,
further, reach deeper into the mysteries of God,
is to have an incredible support system of people
who can hang on to us, who we can hold on
to as we reach out to understand more of who he is.
So that we don't get off track,
so that we don't just let the mystery be our motivator,
but relationship with him and relationship
with his people be the motivator.
>> Because that's the incredible thing that you'll discover
as you pursue the mysteries of God,
is that they're not just mysteries for mystery's sake
they're not just supernatural, for supernatural's sake.
Every single thing that he does is an invitation
to know him more.
Every single thing that he reveals is an invitation
to know him more, to love him more,
and to step into a deeper
and more personal relationship with him.
And so I'm going to pray for you,
if that's all right, wherever you are.
And I know this is just a video, but wherever you are,
put your hands out in front of you.
I just I just bless hunger for mystery
for every single person out there.
I bless a hunger to know more of God.
And I just release the revelation
that you have been invited to know God more.
He is not hiding from you. He is hiding for you.
He wants to reveal himself to you piece by piece,
bit by bit,
because he wants you to know him personally as a loving father,
as a big, amazing, mysterious, loving father,
but also a personal and intimate, loving father.
So I just release that invitation.
I bless your eyes to see. I bless your ears to hear.
And I just bless your heart with a hunger
for more of the mystery of God
and more of a loving relationship with God
in Jesus' name.
Amen.