Every thought and every word (written, spoken both externally and internally) gains power as we move up through the scale of emotion from unconsciousness to enthusiasm.
To get to enthusiasm we must be willing to transmute the pain we have both perpetrated and suppressed. With the release of pain, compassion incrementally increases. This is part of the universal fail safe. If we master the emotional level of pain, we have opportunity to discover immense power/energy.
Evolution occurs as we master emotion by transmuting anything less than love, within our own consciousness.
As we become more and more consciously aware, responsibility increases.
Power is directly related to the influence we project into physical reality.
Contemplate that in terms of what we call prayer. Evolution of consciousness is dependent first on mastering (through transmutation) the emotional body.