When God made man it was said: "Let us make man in our own image and after our likeness and let them have dominion over all the earth and subdue it." Man was given dominion over all the earth, not only over animals, and all living things, but over all the forces and principles of what has been termed "nature." Jesus, while upon earth, demonstrated for us our rights to the possession of this dominion. "He rebuked the winds and the raging of the water and they ceased, and there was a calm."
He used his power for the benefit of his fellow men, and because the principle through which he controlled them was not understood, they were called "miracles." Jesus called them "the works of my Father."
The Saviour controlled or subdued these "forces of nature" through the spiritual power or understanding, which he had from the Father. He said to his disciples then, and he says now: "The works I do, ye shall do and greater," thus indicating that when people live as they ought to live, and as the Scripture teaches them to live, they too have this power.
