The last thing anyone needs, including the lay, is "more power".

In fact we need more humility.   We need to regain our sense of filiation, which is  spiritual childhood.  Our Lord told us to approach Him as little children. 

The reason there's so much angst on this website..is because people here "want more power".  Pride makes us unhappy.   Recognizing our defects and deficiencies in the absence of true humility makes us unhappy, ever searching for "more power". 

They don't understand Our Lord's teaching on humility, at all.   They give lip service to it.

But as the great mystics and saints who had a lively interior life understood, humility is the secret to peace, to happiness, to holiness.  "Littleness" is powerful, because when Our Lord sees us properly disposed (humble in the face of Him), He can't help but rush in to care for us. 

God gives us all the grace we need to do His will.  Doing His will should be our only focus.