The Power of Your Voice

By Kuda Mgweni Dewah

Kuda Mgweni Dewah was born and educated in Njanja, Chivhu, Zimbabwe. She moved to the United Kingdom and studied a professional degree in Psychiatric Nursing. She has worked in secure units, prisons and rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol recovery services. She has also worked in specialist areas including CAMHS.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Dec 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956896398

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Foreword

I thank the Lord Almighty for such an inspiration. More often in search of purpose I have wondered from being truthful and followed after other priorities, but God gently took me back to my purpose. My passion to empower others has caused me to live a life of searching, enquiring and asking questions. I rarely meet people and forget to ask questions. I enjoy knowing people’s struggles and dilemmas and assist them to find their way forward.

As I lay in bed one Saturday morning, I woke up to this inspiration. God spoke to me in a dream; I woke up with the theme of this book on my fingertips. I had to write this book. In the dream, I struggled to find a pen and a paper to jot down my inspirations. Here is the full story.

Acknowledgements

Much appreciation goes to my husband, Pastor Joseph Dewah, my confidante and my best friend. For many years we have laughed, cried and grown together. My children, Joel Simba and Sharon, thank you for the patience; you are my blessings from God. AFM Vessels of Honour Liverpool, thank you for giving us the opportunity to minister to you. You are an amazing church; may God keep blessing you. We love you all with the agape love of God.

Not forgetting my dearest mum, Evelyn Makwiramiti, you are the best. Your guidance, counsel and determination is contagious and it will live on. Your love and your prayers, I will always cherish.

Many thanks to the John Maxwell Team for believing in my endless dreams and provoking in me the ability and time to dream. The awakening is real and it’s only me who has the power to change my world. Thank you again for supporting every dream.

Contents

The Power of your Voice

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: What is your Voice?

Chapter Two: Your voice represents you

Chapter Three: Using your voice in speech

Chapter Four: Your voice in prayer

Chapter Five: Your voice in praise and worship

Chapter Six: Creative speech

Chapter Seven: Positivity

Chapter Eight: Confessions

Chapter Nine: Pronouncing/Denouncing and refusing with your voice.

Chapter Ten: Your voice through letters, emails, text messages

Chapter Eleven: If you remain silent in times like this?

Chapter TwelvevThe power of your voice

Chapter Thirteen: Real power in your voice

Chapter One

What is your Voice?

As many as we are in the world, each of us has a unique voice, known to their world, friends and relatives. God gave each of us unique voices; different tones, accents and languages. To each one of us has been given a voice, and our voices will never be the same. People often confused my voice with that of my sister, Mercy. Over the phone, people have often started conversations thinking it were my sister. When I could not follow up with the conversation, I would definitely know that the other person thought it was my sister. We have voices to speak out things and we can voice things with our voices.

Throughout my stay with my sister, I was careful not to represent my sister because our voices sounded similar although they were not. The maturity, the humour and the sense in our voices differs. For to each of us God gave unique voices, different dialects, tones, gestures and non-verbal cues and voices. These remains powerful and represents us in many capacities. These communicate our thoughts, hopes and likes in different manners and have the power to convict or set us free. Our voice represents our thoughts processes and attitudes. Our voices can create for us friends or find us enemies. I’ve seen people hating others just because of their voices, some people avoid other people merely because ‘they hate their voices’.

However as much as I can eagerly distinguish the different voices and tones, it is crucial to know that voices play an important part in our lives. Your voice has the capacity to set you free or to bind you. Your voice can fill your days or empty them. Your voice can either lift you or bring you down. Your voice communicates your opinions, facts, beliefs, fears and courage. Your voice can build or destroy. I have seen families where upon hearing the voice of either parent, the children either run to bed or run to meet the parents. What is the power of your voice? Your voice represents you whether in present or absent.

Taken literally, your voice is the sound that is produced through your mouth for others to hear. It is your right to be heard. It is the influence that follows your life. Past and present authorities have sent their voices through different media and networks and people are obliged to listen or hearken to the instructions, guidance or command.

Your voice is your say and how you say it. It is your contribution towards whatever is happening around you. I have seen different governmental and organisational platforms that encourage people to engage through different channels. Votes and referendums provide a platform for the general public to be heard by those in authority. However, the voice I am describing in this book is not political neither is it religious. It is an empowerment for individuals to know the power in their voice when they stand in the presence of God and others.

For the people of faith, your voice is that which draws you to the throne of grace and ushers you in the presence of God. Your voice is the ability to open your mouth and speak to God and be able to know that God has heard your prayer. Your voice must exert influence in the spiritual and natural world. Your voice represents you; your voice represents your passion, purpose and authority.

A few individuals have managed to secure a position of authority in their lives such that they believe that when they open their mouth, kingdoms and paradigms have to shift. The power of your voice is exercised authority, it just won’t come. It takes practice, belief in yourself and in God. ‘Remember those that know their God shall do exploits, Daniel 11:32. Exploits are not in deed only but are also in declaration, in speaking, in announcing, in verbalising. Exploits are in plundering the enemy through speaking, doing and acting. People who decide to do exploits, choose to live their lives differently. They choose to achieve desires and speak about them. They think about strategies and implement them. Explorative people are unstoppable, they speak things into being, they believe things that are not as though they were. Authoritative people never speak of defeat even in the midst of apparent failure, they remain positive, they remain hopeful and they speak such.

For people to exert much power in their voices they need to believe in God first, practice authoritative talking and speech every time when a situation arises. I have seen people confused when situations arise, because they fail to recognise the power in their voice. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, Proverbs 18: 21. With the same voice we can plant life and with the same voice we can bring death, disaster and scarce. Those who love it will eat its fruit, this part of the verse is simply saying, those who love to speak better, good and best things will manifest in their lives and they will eat the fruit of their lips. The vice versa is true, if you love speaking bad, you will eat or plant and reap bad things. Watch your voice and your words, they have the power to create your world and your circumstances.

A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth, from the produce of his lips he shall be satisfied, Proverbs 18:20. This verse is a figurative way of saying that a man’s stomach will be filled or satisfied by that which comes from their mouth. People cannot plant bad fruits with their mouth and reap good fruits. Put simply, whatever we verbalise or speak about is what we get. In other words, whatever we plant with our own mouths we will also reap, there is no accident in reaping. People who sow vegetable seeds expect to reap vegetable products. Some man’s stomach remains empty because the fruit of their lips is empty. What is the fruit of your mouth? What have you trained your mouth to say? What is your response to things? Good or bad? Some have