Section 1: The Nature of Power
Power and potential are two interconnected forces, intricately designed to fulfill your purpose. Your potential is the dormant power within you, waiting to be realized, while power is the active force that fuels your actions and impact. Understanding the nature of power and its relationship to purpose allows you to navigate life with clarity, confidence, and intention. By aligning your power with purpose, you unlock the boundless potential embedded within you to positively influence the world around you.
Our purpose is fueled by our potential, and our potential is our inner dwelling power which manifests externally as our personal glory. A synonym for the word power is the word potent. Potent is the root word for words like potential and omnipotent. The Creator, who is omnipotent, meaning all powerful, created everything in life with potential. Therefore, everything and everyone in the universe was created with their own inherent power. However, many of us have either been lied to about our power, perceive that we are denied our power, or fear our own power. Yet, power is as natural and as promised to you, as a member of creation, as is time, death and change. Your power is guaranteed!
How you leverage your power and allow for it to manifest is up to you. Each of us comes to earth with great potential and power, and each of us chooses how much of that potential we will allow to manifest.
Power is not only reserved for those with so-called “special traits,” or those with positional authority, power is a characteristic of creation itself and is available to all. People across the globe, in every race, creed and class have been lied to at some time or the other about their power. There is a pervasive lie that permeates society: that power is only for the few, that power is limited to those who have wealth, status and worldly influence. However, this is not so! The fact that you have breath in your body and experience physical, mental and spiritual changes on a daily basis is proof that you have indwelling power.
Power, in its most fundamental form, is what wakes you up in the morning and carries you through your day. Perverted philosophies and theories about power are the greatest threats to us ever unlocking our individual potential and corporate purpose. When we embrace the fallacies, we are less able to recognize, stop, or preemptively prevent abuses of power.
What we, as the world, have come to generally accept as “power” is actually not power at all. Rather it is the fruit of unrealized and misunderstood power. Therefore, what we as a society recognize as power is simply an abuse of power.
Power was designed with an interconnected and shared function. Power both fuels and feeds more power. Power, in its truest form, is infinite. Yet many treat it as finite and reserved for a select minority of people. When power is flowing in just one direction, let’s say from the top down, then power has been perverted. As a result of this mismanagement and flow of power we end up with power disparities that manifest as gaps between those who are abusing power and those who are being abused by the mismanagement of power. These gaps are often misinterpreted as distinctions between those who possess influence and those who do not.