How to Hear from God — A 3-Hour Virtual Workshop
Most people want to know how to hear from God. Most faith conversations never actually answer that question. This one does.
Learning how to hear from God is not as mysterious as most church conversations make it sound. Christianity makes a claim no other world religion makes in quite the same way: that you can have a personal, bi-directional relationship with God. Not just belief in him. Not just following his commands. An actual relationship — one where he speaks and you listen, and you speak and he hears.
But if you look at how most people describe that relationship, it sounds like this: include God in your daily life, pray to him, read his Word, meditate on Scripture, join a church community. Those are all good things. But ask yourself honestly — if you replaced “God” with a person you claimed to have a relationship with, and that was your definition of the relationship, would it actually sound like a relationship? Or would it sound like you read their old letters, thought about what they would want, and spent time with people who admired them?
If it’s only ever going one way, it’s not a relationship.
This workshop is about the other direction — what it looks like for God to speak, how to get into a posture where you can hear him, and what’s getting in the way if you can’t.
Why is it so hard to hear from God?
The Bible gives us a picture of what hearing from God is supposed to look like — and it’s not complicated. In Genesis, Adam and Eve knew God’s footsteps. Not his voice — his footsteps. They were so familiar with him walking in the garden that they recognized the sound of his approach above every other creature in that place. That’s not a picture of people who read a text and thought about its application. That’s intimacy.
At the other end, Revelation describes God’s final plan: he will dwell with his people face-to-face. That is the beginning and the end of the story. Which raises a question: why would we expect him to behave so differently in the middle?
This workshop takes that question seriously — and works through what it practically means to move from a one-way relationship with God to a real one.
What we’ll cover
- Why “all religions are the same” fails the moment you get specific about attributes
- Who the Holy Spirit actually is — person, not force — and what that means for your daily life
- What bi-directional relationship with God looked like throughout the Bible, and why it wasn’t reserved for prophets
- Whether God still speaks to people today — and the case for why a largely silent God is harder to square with Scripture than most people think
- How to get into a posture of listening — practically, not theoretically
- What’s getting in the way for you specifically, and how to diagnose it
Throughout the workshop, we’ll stop and do what I call “circle ups” — guided listening prayer exercises where you actually practice being in the presence of God rather than just learning about it. The goal is not more head knowledge. It’s to give you tools you can use on your own when the workshop is done.
This workshop is for you if…
- You believe in God intellectually but your relationship with him feels like a monologue
- You used to feel connected but somewhere along the way that connection faded
- You’ve been a Christian for years and quietly wonder why it doesn’t feel like what the Bible describes
- You’ve been told God speaks to people, but you’ve never been sure that applies to you
- You have questions about the Holy Spirit that your church context never quite answered
- You want more than information — you want to actually practice connecting with God in real time
This workshop on how to hear from God balances head and heart. We’ll do real theological work on who God is and what the Bible says about relationship — and we’ll also stop and practice. If the intellectual side needs to be settled before the emotional side feels safe, you’re in the right place. If the intellectual side feels settled but the connection still isn’t there, you’re also in the right place.
Workshop details
| Format | Live on Zoom — approximately 3 hours with a break in the middle |
| Price | $75 |
| Included | A curated resource list (vetted books on the Holy Spirit, miracles, listening prayer, and inner healing) and a “pulse check” guide — a diagnostic tool you can use anytime you feel disconnected from God |
About Kristen
Kristen Davis holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and an MA in Christian Apologetics. She’s the founder of DoubtLess Faith and has spent years helping people work through the intellectual and emotional barriers that keep them from connecting with God. She spent much of her own journey asking whether any of this was actually supposed to feel different than it did — and found her way to the other side of that question. She’s the kind of person you can be honest with about where you actually are.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a theology background to follow this?
No. The workshop is designed to work whether you’ve been in church your whole life or you’re approaching this largely as an outsider. If you’ve never heard the word “cessationist” or aren’t sure what the Trinity means, that’s fine — we’ll cover it. If you’ve been in seminary, you’ll find the content goes somewhere most seminary courses don’t.
Is this a charismatic thing?
Not in the way you might be thinking. Orthodox Christianity — across virtually every tradition — holds that every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. This workshop is built on that shared ground, not on any particular tradition’s take on spiritual gifts. The question we’re pressing into is simpler: if the Holy Spirit actually lives in you, why does it so often feel like nothing is happening?
What if I’m skeptical that God speaks to people today?
That’s worth examining rather than assumed. The workshop walks through what the Bible actually shows us about divine-human interaction from Genesis to Revelation — and makes the case that the expectation of a largely silent God is harder to square with the text than people think. Come with your skepticism. That’s what the content is designed to engage.
Is this more head or heart?
Both, intentionally. We spend significant time on the theology — who is the God we’re talking about, what does the Bible say about the Holy Spirit, what does relationship with God actually look like in the scriptures. And we also stop several times throughout the workshop to practice. There’s no point teaching someone how to listen to God and never actually doing it.
What do I walk away with?
Practically: a curated reading list organized around whatever is getting in the way for you — theology, emotional healing, learning to hear God’s voice, or the apologetics of miracles — and a diagnostic tool called the pulse check that you can use on your own whenever you feel your connection with God slipping.
More broadly: a clearer picture of who the God of the Bible actually is, what he designed relationship with him to look like, and a more honest read on what’s standing between you and that.