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Why Do We Hunger for Power?

Humanity’s Twisted Pursuit of Power

Have you ever wondered why people relentlessly pursue control—over situations, over people, over their lives? Beneath the surface of ambition, obsession, and even religious striving is something deeper: a yearning for lost authority. This craving isn’t random—it’s the echo of something once entrusted to humanity and tragically handed over in the Garden.

Made to Rule & Reign within God

“You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:” — Psalm 8:6 (NIV)

“Then God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” — Genesis 1:26 (NIV)

We were made for dominion, not domination. Authority, not control.
But when Adam and Eve disobeyed, they handed over the keys of rulership to the deceiver.

Instead of surrendering to God, humanity now strives to be god, clawing for control—over outcomes, others, and even God’s timing. This craving for power isn’t arbitrary—it’s the echo of Eden, distorted by the Fall.

From the beginning, God didn’t create humanity to be passive observers. He designed us in His image—as royal representatives, entrusted with governance. Dominion wasn’t about domination. It was about stewardship, rulership under God’s authority, releasing His nature into the earth.

We were meant to be image bearers, living mirrors of His glory.

The Transfer of Authority: Satan was empowered through Us

“Then that devil said with Him, ‘I will offer with you all that authority, that that praise from them for therewith has been given over to me, then I give that same to whosoever I may be willing.“ — Luke 4:6 (2020 New Testament)

When Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, he made a chilling claim: the authority of the world had been delivered to him. But by whom? Certainly not by God.

Lucifer wasn’t empowered to become Satan by God. Humans gave him the authority we were entrusted with. In the garden, it wasn’t just innocence lost—it was dominion transferred. Lucifer became Satan when man yielded to his word over God’s.

Satan operates through borrowed authority—what humanity gave up in exchange for the illusion of wisdom and control.

It was Adam and Eve—through disobedience—who handed over the keys. Lucifer was not empowered by Heaven to become Satan. He was empowered by humanity’s surrender, weaponizing the very dominion God gave us. He became the “god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) by inheriting authority that was never meant to be his.

The Church’s Amnesia: Forgetting Our Inheritance

“Having a resemblance of the gospel, yet that miraculous power thereof having disregarded, yet these avoid” — 2 Timothy 3:5 (2020 New Testament)

“Have you not known that we will judge angels, how much more things that pertain to this life?” — 1 Corinthians 6:3 (2020 New Testament)

Much of the Church today has become neutered, not because God stopped moving, but because we stopped believing.
We preach salvation, but avoid authority.
We worship Jesus, but forget that He is the Firstborn among many (Romans 8:29)—a prototype, not just our sacrifice.

The same Church that should be binding and loosing, healing and proclaiming, now debates whether the power of the Sacred Spirit is still active.

Closing Exhortation: Fear Not, Wake Up, Rise Up Today

God didn’t change His mind about giving humanity dominion.
He just made a way—through Jesus—for that authority to be redeemed, recovered, and reinstated through the Sacred Spirit.

It’s time for the Church to stop living as though we’re waiting for permission.
We were born again (regenerated / engendered) to carry power.
We were sealed by the Sacred Spirit to enforce the victory from within Jesus the Messiah.
We were sent to release Heaven on Earth—not just pray about it.

“Seeing that therewith luminousness is being rendered apparent everything. Wherefore, he utters, ‘That one falling asleep, awaken, yet raise up out of the dead, then He will illuminate within you the Messiah“ — Ephesians 5:14 (2020 New Testament)

Song Connection: “Authority Redeemed”
by Blessing Others

The Craving in Us Is the Echo of Eden

Now, in every human heart, there’s a restless desire for significance, influence, and control. Why?

Because we were wired for dominion, and that nature didn’t disappear after the fall. It became distorted.

“You long for, yet you have not, you are a murderer likewise you boil with anger, yet you have not been able to have obtained, yourselves having wrangled, in fact, you are engaged in warfare. Yourselves have not by reason of yourselves to have not asked, you ask yet you receive not, on the very account that you having asked improperly, so that wherewith your desires for pleasure you might have squandered.“
— James 4:2-3 (2020 New Testament)

Control becomes the idol. Power becomes the prize.
But it’s all a counterfeit. The flesh reaches for what only the Spirit can restore.

We Reach When We Should Yield

The very thing we were created to hold—godly authority—can’t be seized. It must be received again through surrender. And yet the world, and even many in the Church, keep trying to take it back by effort, manipulation, or performance.

But power doesn’t come through pride. It comes through presence.

Conclusion: The Way Back Is Not Control—It’s Christ

Jesus didn’t come just to forgive us—He came to restore us. That includes our lost authority. But it won’t be reclaimed through the flesh.

The echo of Eden still calls. But only one voice leads us home.

“Now He was saying with everyone, If anyone desires to have come after me, disregard one’s own interests, then take up that one’s own cross every day and follow me.”
— Luke 9:23 (2020 New Testament)

Reflection Question:
Are you grasping for control, or yielding to the One who gives true authority?

Rich but Powerless?

The early Church turned the world upside down. Today, the Church often struggles to turn on the light. Why?

We’ve inherited spiritual riches beyond measure, yet many live as if we’re bankrupt of power. We’ve reduced Jesus to a moral teacher and forgotten He is our model of Spirit-filled living.

We don’t just have forgiveness. We have authority.
We don’t just follow Jesus’ teachings—we follow His Sacred Spirit.

But somewhere along the way, we forgot WHO we carry.

Jesus Wasn’t Just Redemption—He Was Our Example

“Now Jesus returned from the Jordan full of that Sacred Spirit, then He was being led by that Spirit into that wilderness“
— Luke 4:1 (2020 New Testament)

Before His first miracle, Jesus waited on the Spirit. Though fully God, He operated as a man fully submitted to the Spirit to show us what is possible when Heaven lives in us.

He didn’t heal because He was God.
He healed because He was filled with God.

“Verily, verily, I say with you, that one entrusting with me, these undertakings which I bring forth, likewise that one will bring forth, then an abundant of these that one will bring forth, because I having departed to the Father.” — John 14:12 (2020 New Testament)

That’s not poetry. That’s a Kingdom invitation.

The Promise of Power—The Spirit We’ve Been Given

“Yet you will have received miraculous power from that Sacred Spirit having come upon you, then you will have been witnesses of me both at Jerusalem and wherewith all Judea, that at Samaria, then unto the ends of the earth” — Acts 1:8 (2020 New Testament)

“Now if that Spirit from that one having raised up Jesus out of the dead dwells within you, that one having raised up the Messiah out of the dead likewise will give your mortal bodies life by the means of His Spirit dwelling within you” — Romans 8:11 (2020 New Testament)

Jesus told the disciples to wait in Jerusalem—not to be holy, but to be empowered.

Many in the Church today have the Spirit sealed in but not stirred up.
We walk like beggars when we’re sons and daughters with keys in our hands (Matthew 16:19).4. The Spirit We’ve Been Given: Heaven’s Return on Earth

Jesus never performed a miracle until the Spirit descended on Him at His baptism.
Everything He did—healing, commanding nature, casting out demons—was done as a man empowered by the Spirit, not as God flexing divinity.

And then He says to us: Wait for the same Spirit. When He comes, you’ll do even greater things.

We don’t just need to reverence Jesus, we need to follow Him—in truth, in obedience, in Spirit-led, Spirit-powered authority.

Heaven’s Order Is Upside Down—To the World

The Kingdom doesn’t come through worldly control, but through yielded vessels filled within God’s Spirit.
Heaven’s rule is upside down to earth’s standards—power through surrender, victory through sacrifice, authority through submission.

“Let Your realm come, Your will cause to be, in that manner in Heaven likewise upon of this earth” — Matthew 6:10 (2020 New Testament)

“then He said, Of a truth I say with you, except you might have been converted then might have had caused to be in that manner these little children, you might not have ever entered into that realm of those heavens.” — Matthew 18:3 (2020 New Testament)

“It will not have been in this way among you, yet whosoever will be willing among you to have had caused to be great, will have been your servant.” — Matthew 20:26 (2020 New Testament)

Heaven’s dominion doesn’t look like earthly dominance.
It comes through servants, not emperors. Through crosses, not crowns.

True Kingdom authority isn’t about control—it’s about release.
Jesus didn’t seize power. He gave His life—and then was exalted (Philippians 2:8–9).

This is how heaven invades earth.

Why the Church Feels Powerless

“Having a resemblance of the gospel, yet that miraculous power thereof having disregarded, yet these avoid” — 2 Timothy 3:5 (2020 New Testament)

Satan doesn’t fear a well-behaved Church. He fears a Spirit-filled, awakened one. The enemy has convinced many that the power of God was for “then,” not now.

But Scripture never teaches power was seasonal.
It teaches that power is a Person—the Sacred Spirit.

When we reduce Christianity to morality, we end up with rules but no reign.

Time to Wake Up

The Spirit within you isn’t a passive presence.
He’s the resurrection power of God.

You weren’t just saved to survive.
You were filled to reign in life within Jesus the Messiah (Romans 5:17).

The Church doesn’t need to wait for revival. The Church is the revival—if we remember who we are and Whose Spirit we carry.

Reflection Questions:
Are we living as a spectator of power, or a vessel of it?

Are we viewing the Scriptures as rules or keys with Heavenly access?

Are we clothed within that nature of Jesus or do we merely wear His name?

Are we restoring God’s original intent by revealing Jesus, and releasing Heaven into the earth?