How to Hear From God with Havilah Cunnington Episode 300

How to Hear From God with Havilah Cunnington

Hearing God’s voice is one of the greatest gifts we have been given. Often, though we feel frustrated as if we are doing something wrong, but really, the key is that we need to discover the unique way God speaks to us. 

Havilah Cunnington joined me on my show this week. She is a Bible teacher, author, small business owner, and itinerant speaker obsessed with helping people live the abundant life God has called them to live. 

Havilah shares with us wisdom and lessons about how God speaks to each of us differently, and the key to understanding the unique way He speaks to us is through our prophetic personality out of her new book, Created to Hear God: 4 Unique and Proven Ways to Confidently Discern His Voice.

Let’s dive in. 

How We Know if We Are Hearing From God or Just Ourselves

Havilah shares that there are three voices that we consistently hear. We hear ourselves, like our own self-talk. We hear God, and we hear the enemy. And so, how do we know which one is God? Because if God is saying don’t do it, then we don’t wanna do it. But if it’s the enemy saying don’t do it, well, we want to do it. And if it’s just ourselves saying do it, then we’re like, well, no one’s really backing me up. 

First of all, the hardest person to hear God for is yourself. Because you have ulterior motives, you have desires, you have a bad filter, and it’s not your fault. You just want to hear what you want to hear. And that’s difficult. It’s very hard to hear God for yourself. So you need to be aware of that. That is a vulnerability that we have. And then also, if we don’t know the word of God, then we don’t know if God is contradicting what he’s saying. So a lot of people will say, this is what God is saying, but they don’t know the word of God. And then it sounds like he’s contradicting, and God is not confused.

Secondly, here are a few questions to ask: 

Is there wisdom in this? Do I know that this is the right thing for me? How do I find wisdom? 

Havilah reminds us that the Bible says there is wisdom in a multitude of counsel. So she goes to people who love God, trust God, know God, and get counsel from them. And then she also tests God, but not like the Bible says not to test him, but she fleeces him. So, she says we are allowed to ask as many times as I want. Is this what you’re saying? Is this what you’re doing? Please close the door if it’s not you, God. 

3 Core Values for Hearing From God 

1. We are spiritual beings. 

• The Bible says we have a spirit, and that spirit is dead until the Holy Spirit comes and lives on the inside of us. That makes your spirit alive.

2. Second, we have to understand that we don’t learn to hear God’s voice. 

• We have been created to hear God’s voice. 

3. God is always speaking.

• God is a communicator. He’s always speaking, whether it’s the Word, whether it’s through the Spirit, some things are always happening.

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Favorite quotes:

“There’s a recording of what you said to me that night…[I thought] my sweet little Southern Baptist heart doesn’t understand this, but there is a more charismatic part of the church that gets it and feels comfortable hearing from God.  And it was later after that you told me, ‘We hear from God in different ways’.  And you went through all of that and it changed my life forever.”

– Alli Worthington (Youtube 5:27, Audio – 4:41)

“What I’ve learned about God is that he really doesn’t care what our title is or what we theologically know. He knows us – our personhood.  God knows our hopes and our dreams. He knows our future. God knows what happened in the past. He knows the secrets of our hearts.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 9:16, Audio – 8:13)

“God did not make a mistake when he made us, and he made us how we are.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 9:43, Audio – 8:40)

“There are three voices that we consistently hear. We hear ourselves, we hear God, and we hear the enemy.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 16:08, Audio – 13:12) 

“The prophetic is simply how God shows up in the world.  Personality is how you show up in the world. I like to put them together, calling it prophetic personality.” 

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 18:30, Audio – 15:28)

“We want to hear God’s voice because you can’t have a relationship without His voice.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 19:15, Audio – 16:10)

“We don’t learn to hear God’s voice, we have been created to hear God’s voice.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 20:24, Audio – 17:12) 

“God is always speaking.” 

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 21:24, Audio 18:10)

“Everyone deserves to hear God’s voice.”

– Havilah Cunnington (Youtube 36:45)

Coaching This Week From Alli: 

5 Power Packed Clarity Questions 

1. What was my single biggest time waster in my life this year? (YouTube 38:22) (Audio – 33:54) 

• It could be I spent too much time worrying about what other people think, or I spent too much time on social media. 

2. What was the best way you used your time this past year? (YouTube 39:29) (Audio – 34:57)

• It could be time spent with family, or trying something new in your business, or finally making progress on something you thought was hard. 

3. What was your biggest mistake of the year, and what lesson did you learn from it? (YouTube 40:29) (Audio – 35:56)

• Don’t beat yourself up with this question; this is so you can learn and get stronger for things. If we don’t look back at our failures and mess-ups, we aren’t going to learn from them and will continue to make them and wonder why we aren’t getting good results.

4. What was your biggest surprise of the year? (YouTube 41:21) (Audio – 36:46)

• This can be personal or professional, something you didn’t know was coming, or it can be positive or negative. 

5. What was your best memory of the year? (YouTube 41:48) (Audio – 37:08)

• We want to end on a high, so this is the last question. Journal through these questions to get clarity for the year because the more clarity you get, the better you’ll be equipped for 2024. 

Lastly, my anti-recommendation this week is collagen. (YouTube 42:26) (Audio – 37:51) 

Links to great things we discussed: 

• Havilah Cunnington Website
• Havilah Cunnington Instagram
• Created to Hear God: 4 Unique and Proven Ways to Confidently Discern His Voice
• Havilah’s Podcast
• Alli on YouTube
• Apply for a FREE Coaching Call with Alli
• Remaining You While Raising Them

Order your copy of Remaining You While Raising Them here.

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xo,

Alli