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The power of the peihstood. which as u said the the power to act in gods name on earth. It isnt if you want to move a mountain u can it is if god wants to

My guess?

The authority to act in God's name.

It's not so much a power that you have that others don't as keys that you have that others don't.

This, btw, sounds like an excellent question to ask God. Who else would know better? smile

You have answered your own question, even though you cannot yet fully grasp what it means.

I have had much opportunity to excersize my priesthood in a variety of different situations. Many of these would be inappropriate, even in an LDS guild, to discuss openly.

The Power of God, is the power to accomplish anything righteous. Moving a mountain seems monumentous to most - but the formation will obey, according to it's creator (does that make sense)

Let me use an example, to put it into more physical terms. I will not openly discuss the details, however.

One of the more powerful blessings that I have had the opportunity to give was to a friend of mine in immense spiritual need, about a month or two ago. During this blessing, it was as if another entity came within my body... (note, this doesn't happen to this extent with most blessings). I was left literally to listen to me speaking words that never entered my mind - as if I was listening to someone else giving the blessing. My friend, and I, trembled at the power of the words uttered. After the blessing, the "entity" left me, and I collapsed, as my legs did not have the strength to hold me. It wasn't until about an hour afterwards that I was able to fully walk again.

Now, that is the extent of what I should share (and even this much is pushing it, really. This is in my "top ten" most powerful spiritual experiences, if I were to rank them, probably in the top three. (Being, number 3)

The Priesthood literally is the Power of God - it is as if GOD were saying it. Similar to how I am really Matt Bennion, not paladin140. It is ME saying this, NOT my avatar.

I get it. I've been using the wrong words for what I'm asking. The priesthood is the authority to use God's power. But where did God get that power? Power can't come from nowhere. Our government's power comes from it's people, a gun's power comes from gunpowder, and the sun's power comes from fusing hydrogen atoms. So what is it?

Hmm... not always. They didn't always obey. Um... Abraham 4:18 I think it is. Something like that. XD

Anyways. The idea of righteousness actually creating the priesthood... So... the only reason humans can't actually have their own preisthood is because they're imperfect. But Christ was perfect, and he still used God's... Then again, he wasn't exalted yet. So once we are exalted, we gain our own preisthood? That would explain part of the overly-vague Goddess preisthood, anyways.

Okay! Here's what I've come up with. If anyone finds anything wrong in here, please, PLEASE let me know. I don't want to go around thinking something with an obvious mistake in it... :

God gained his own power seperate from anyone else's when he became exalted and began creating worlds. His righteousness is what fuels his power. Our righteousness does NOT fuel any power only because we are not exalted. But since we need the power to make it through earth and become exalted ourselves, God lets us use his power so long as we are being righteous so that we COULD have our own should we be exalted.

Yea? Nay?

Okies. I'll look into it.

I had been on my mission for over one year, when my companion and I were to meet with our elders. This was not unusual, for we met often with our elders but this time the power of God was impressed upon my soul.

Our Assistant to the president, our Zone leader, and our District leader was in a room waiting for us to enter. When I opened the door, I felt so overwhelmed by the power in that room, I quickly took a step back, letting the door close. My heart was beating so fast and I had a lump in my throat. Tears stood in my eyes.

“Sister what’s the matter?” my companion asked as I crashed into her. For she was trying to follow me into the room.
I turned to her.
“Nothing is wrong Sister, everything is fine. Pay attention to how you feel when you enter that room.” I said, and then opened the door again.

The overwhelming feeling was still there, and the elders looked a bit confused.
My District leader asked me if I was alright, and I smiled at him.
“Just overwhelmed by the power and authority in this room.” Is what I told them.
It was a physical feeling, almost tangible.
This made them look nervous.
They asked me what I meant by it.
The only way to really describe how I felt was that I was walking into the presence of my Father in heaven, and that he was holding his arms out to me to give me a welcoming hug.