I Choose to Speak Life!

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Today, we dive into the supernatural power of words and how they shape reality. From Zechariah’s silence to prevent doubt from derailing God’s plan to God’s “Let there be light” in Genesis 1, words have always been vessels of creative power. As Dan McCollam says, “Your experience will rise to the level of your declaration.” Speaking faith-filled words isn’t about ignoring reality but aligning your speech with heaven’s perspective — rewiring your brain toward faith through neuroplasticity. When you declare life, you actively participate in God’s creative process, transforming your mind and circumstances. Ready to unleash that power? Your words are more powerful than you think!

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Episode Transcript

Michele (00:00):
It's Tuesday, March 11th, and this is Today's Kus
Word.
Welcome to Today's Kus Word,your weekday blast of
inspiration.
Join me, Michele Kus, everyMonday through Friday for some
piping hot faith bombs, freedombombs, fun bombs and Holy Spirit

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fire bombs.
Happy Tuesday, you more than aconqueror you! Yesterday, I
shared the story with you of thehigh priest, Zechariah, after
the angel Gabriel had told himthe good news about the baby boy
John that his wife, Elizabeth,who was well along in years, was

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going to have.
And we talked about the powerof our words, and here
Zechariah's words had thepotential to abort God's plans.
So the angel Gabriel took itupon himself to completely
silence Zechariah for the entirelength of Elizabeth's pregnancy

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, so that he would not be ableto kill off what God was trying
to do in bringing about thisbaby boy, who would eventually
become John the Baptist.
And so we all agreed yesterday,right, that you were going to

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stop saying negative stuff overyourself.
Wasn't that our agreement?
So now, do I think that God isgoing to strike you mute if you
speak negative stuff overyourself?
No, my friend, I do not.
I do not think God is going tostrike you mute, but do I
believe that our words have thepotential to possibly kill off

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what God might be trying tobring about in the world?
Absolutely, and that was mypoint in yesterday's show.
But it's not just about theabsence of negative speech and
negative words, although that issuper important.
It's also about releasing life,speaking life, with our words.

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So we don't just want to notspeak negative words, we also
want to proactively speakpositive words over ourselves,
over others, and over ourcircumstances.
So words are not justcontainers of information.

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Words are containers of power,and we see this all the way back
in Genesis 1, where God himselfspeaks all of creation into
existence with his words, "Letthere be light," and light was,
right?
And we are made in his image.
So our words have a spiritualpower to bring things into

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existence in the same way andfor the record, I'm not talking
about manifesting or anythinglike that.
I am talking about thesupernatural power that God has
given to your words, whether yourealize you carry that power or
not.
And I mentioned yesterdayProverbs 18, verse 21, which

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says the tongue has the power oflife and death and those who
love it will eat its fruit.
So when we declare life-givingwords, we are planting seeds in
the spiritual realm that willeventually bear fruit, some kind
of fruit.
Will it be nice, beautiful,juicy, sweet, ripe fruit?

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Or will it be moldy, rottenfruit, like that black banana
you've got sitting on yourcounter right now that is just
begging to be made into bananabread?
So think about that for asecond.
Your words are going to bearfruit at some point.
So when you're speaking words,just be prepared to have a meal

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at some point.
It's either going to be adelicious meal or it's going to
be a not-so-delicious meal.
So what if all of our wordseeds eventually bloomed and
blossomed into delicious mealsof faith, of health, of joy, of
prosperity, of hope, of greatfriendships, of a great marriage

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?
So Dan McCollam says it thisway: "Your experience will rise
to the level of your declaration.
Your experience will rise tothe level of your declaration.
" So what is the level of yourdeclaration?

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Are you speaking level 10 wordsor are you speaking at a
negative 13 level?
So expect your life experienceto follow suit.
The declarations that we makeare not about denying reality,
okay?
Maybe the declaration that Igave you yesterday felt a little

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phony to you.
Maybe you've never saidanything like that before.
Hey, good job for tryingsomething new.
But we are not actually denyingreality.
What we are doing isproclaiming God's higher reality
and better reality, which mightnot currently match our current

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reality.
So the goal is to bring yourwords into alignment with heaven
, into agreement with heaven,even if you don't see it here on
earth yet.
So if heaven is saying it,you're saying it, and if
heaven's not saying it, you'renot saying it.
Does that make sense?
So flip in your Bible over toRomans, chapter 4, verse 17, for

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a second.
Paul is talking here aboutAbraham's faith, and I love how
the English Standard Versionwords this.
It says, "as it is written Ihave made you the father of many
nations in the presence of theGod in whom he believed.
He's talking about Abraham, whogives life to the dead and

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calls into existence the thingsthat do not exist.
" Wow.
So yesterday I gave you thisdeclaration: "The words I speak

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are full of faith and trust.
" Did you say it?
Did you say it multiple times?
Did you feel like you werelying?
Well, guess what?
You're not lying.
You are learning to bring yourwords into agreement with heaven
.
And there's so muchsupernatural power when you
bring your words into agreementwith heaven.
So I'm going to go into thattopic on a different episode.

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But there is so much spiritualpower in agreement, both in the
negative and in the positive,but different episode for a
different day.
So every time you make thatdeclaration, you are training
your brain to speak words thatare full of faith and trust.
You are literally rewiring yourbrain toward faith and trust

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and away from doubt andskepticism.
This is the beauty ofneuroplasticity that God has put
inside of our brains, so we canliterally rewire our brains
anytime we want so that theywork for us and not against us.
So here is Today's Kus Word.

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It's a play on Proverbs 18:21,and your declaration today goes

like this (08:10):
"My words have the power of life and death and I
choose to speak life.
My words have the power of lifeand death and I choose to speak
life.

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" Good job! All right, that'swhat I got for you today.
I hope you enjoyed today'sepisode and, if you did, please
share it with a friend andremember to send me a text
message.
There's a little link downthere in the show notes that
says Text Michele, just tap thatlink on your phone and send me

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a text message and let me knowhow this is hitting you.
Thanks so much for joining metoday and I will see you again
tomorrow.