Releasing the Cullam Pt 3: From Fullness to Power — How the Holy Spirit Moves from Within You to Upon the World

The progression from being full of the Holy Spirit to operating in the power of the Holy Spirit is not automatic — it is cultivated through encounter, trial, and victory.

The release of God's power is not activated by more prayer alone — it is the result of a spiritual progression that demands encounter, endurance, and transformation from the inside out. Jesus Himself modeled this path: from the Jordan to the wilderness, from fullness to power, from seeking the Father's will in private to performing it in public. This teaching unpacks the theology of that progression and what it requires of every believer who desires to walk in genuine spiritual authority.

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Teaching Overview

1. Believers must progress from being full of the Holy Spirit internally to operating in the power of the Holy Spirit externally — this transition is modeled by Jesus from the Jordan to the wilderness to public ministry.
2. Spiritual authority is cultivated through encounter with and victory over spiritual opposition — you cannot cast out what you have never resisted.
3. Private prayer is the place of seeking the Father's will; public presence is the place of performing it — these are two distinct and non-interchangeable postures.
4. Tribulations and temptations are not obstacles to power — they are the qualification process that moves believers from lacking into fullness.
5. Knowledge, not extended prayer alone, is what makes a believer powerful — faith is knowledge of what others do not yet know.

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Key Distinctions

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The Jordan: A Place of Spiritual Transition

• The Jordan is a place of spiritual transition — whenever people crossed it, their destiny, name, and function changed.
• When Elijah ascended into heaven, he crossed the Jordan toward the wilderness; the children of Israel crossed the Jordan to enter the Promised Land.
• David was anointed king in Judah — a spiritual location of crowning — which is why Jesus is called the Lion of the tribe of Judah; things not crowned in Judah will have a short-lived reign.

Full of the Holy Spirit vs. Spirit Upon

• Being full of the Holy Spirit is an internal reality — the Spirit fills what has been emptied of self; having the Spirit come upon you is an external event.
• The Holy Spirit can only fill what is made available — if self is not emptied, fullness cannot occur.
• Someone with the Spirit of God upon them can still misbehave; someone full of the Holy Spirit has died to self entirely.

"If you don't work on cultivating the unknowing within, you can never be full of the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit can only fill what you make available."

"Somebody who is full of the Holy Ghost does not have self, self died."

Led by the Spirit, Not Forced

• Because Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, He was led — not forced, pushed, or commanded — meaning His obedience was willing.
• God will never make a believer do anything, because compulsion violates the principle of free will.
• Spirits cannot take over what has not been handed to them — the devil can only capture what Adam and Eve gave him through sin; sin opens a door but does not automatically produce captivity.

"God will never make you do anything. Because that's a violation of free will."

"Spirits cannot take over what was not handed to them."

From Fullness to Power

• Jesus entered the wilderness full of the Spirit; He came out in the power — meaning the Spirit had overflowed and He was now inside it, not merely containing it.
• His presence became the power of God — He did not need to pray over situations; encountering Him was encountering deliverance.
• The progression from full to power is the model every believer is called to follow.

"My prayer is that your presence from this day will become the power of God. Now when people see you, they begin to see God. When people encounter you, they encounter deliverance."

Private Prayer vs. Public Presence

• In private, the believer seeks the Father's will; in public, the believer performs it — these two postures must never be confused or reversed.
• Jesus prayed on His knees before the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane; when He stood among the people, He never went to His knees — because in public He was representing His Father, not still seeking Him.
• The reason the power of God is not being demonstrated is that many believers go to their knees in public — still seeking — when they should be standing and performing.

"Your private prayer and your public prayer are completely different."

"In public, that is where you are performing your father's will, not seeking it."

Religion Without Power vs. Kingdom Demonstrated

• Religion without the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit is not the kingdom of God — the kingdom is not inward but demonstrated outwardly.
• When people operate in condemnation and judgment rather than spiritual authority, they are displaying religion without power.
• All authority and power comes from above — if a qualified believer is not being lifted, the lack is in them, not in God's willingness.

"The kingdom of God is not inward, but in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost."

"All authority and power comes from above."

Demonstrating God's Power in Darkness

• Demonstration of power means showing off — revealing God's reality where people do not have God.
• The power of God is not demonstrated in the light — it is demonstrated in the dark, among those who do not know Him; presence is experienced among those who already know God.
• The true evidence of spiritual power is how well a believer shines in darkness, not how impressive they appear among other believers.

"The power of God is revealed where people don't have God."

"The true evidence of you being powerful is shining in the dark."

Testing in the Wilderness

• For everything God gives a believer — or that a believer asks of God — there will be a test upon it, because overcoming opposition qualifies the believer to minister that same deliverance to others.
• Jesus was tempted by the devil three times during His forty-day fast — not after it concluded but while it was ongoing.
• A believer cannot cast out a demon they have never first resisted in their own life; resistance produces the authority to expel.

"For everything that God gives you or for everything that you ask God for, you will be tested upon."

"You can never cast out a demon that you never resisted in the first place in your own life."

Encountering Spiritual Opposition

• Spiritual authority over a specific enemy comes only from having encountered and overcome that enemy — you cannot defeat or even recognize a devil you have never met.
• The first person Jesus encountered during His prayer and fasting was not an angel but the devil — angels came as a response to the battle, not before it.
• If a believer avoids spiritual confrontation in prayer, that undefeated spirit will continually challenge their ministry.

"You can never defeat or recognize a devil that you have never encountered."

"If you do not defeat the one I want you to defeat in that place, he will always haunt your ministry."

Demons Respond to Who They Know

• Demons respond by knowing — meaning by having had direct encounter with — a believer; credibility in the spiritual realm is established through encounter, not by title or intention.
• When the sons of Sceva attempted deliverance, the demon said, "Paul, we know. Jesus, we know, but who are you?" — demonstrating that the name of Jesus alone is insufficient without the character of Jesus residing in the one who speaks it.
• "In the name of Jesus" means in the character of Jesus — that character must be present in the minister for the authority to function.

"Demons respond by knowing you — by having experienced encounter with you."

"The name of Jesus was not enough to cast them out unless the character of Jesus is in you."

You Cannot Give What You Don't Have

• A believer cannot give deliverance they do not personally enjoy, healing they do not personally carry, or financial breakthrough they have not personally walked through.
• Jesus came so the world could have life, but the power to give eternal life was not proven until He went to the grave and came out — His resurrection was the evidence, not His teaching.
• Claiming to give others what you yourself have not received and proven produces a ministry that cannot deliver what it promises.

"You can never give what you don't have."

"Jesus did not have power to give eternal life until he went to the grave and came out."

Tribulation as Qualification

• Tribulations are not obstacles — they are the qualification process through which believers enter the power of the Holy Spirit and stop lacking in specific areas.
• Job went through his trial and came out richer — because in that area, he now lacked nothing; every area conquered becomes an area of strength and abundance.
• Every temptation is simultaneously an opportunity to demonstrate God's power and an opportunity to enter deeper into the power of the Holy Spirit through cultivated knowledge.

"I am qualifying myself so that I don't lack anything."

"Every temptation is an opportunity to enter into the power of the Holy Ghost."

The Power of Knowledge

• Knowledge, not extended prayer, is what makes a believer powerful — prayer is a result of knowledge, directed by what the believer knows about God and His will.
• Faith is knowledge of something others do not yet know — it is not wishful thinking but informed certainty.
• Divine covering from a spiritual father or mother is not merely protective — it equips believers to become spiritual giants through the knowledge imparted.

"Knowledge makes you to pray. Prayer is a result of knowledge."

"Faith is simply knowledge of something that other people don't know. But you know."

Challenges as the Path to Promotion

• Spiritual promotion follows the same logic as natural promotion — it is earned through demonstrated ability under pressure, not handed out without evidence.
• What promotes a believer is the battles they fight: patience is developed by being tested in patience; freedom from offense is developed by being repeatedly offended until offense is expelled.
• A believer cannot enter the power of the Holy Spirit while remaining spiritually soft — God uses tribulations to grow spiritual stamina so that life is no longer in the flesh but fully in the Spirit.

"What promotes you is the battles that you fight."

"You can never enter into the power of the Holy Ghost if you are soft."

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Key Definitions

Fullness of the Holy Spirit — The internal condition in which the Holy Spirit fills every space vacated by self; only possible when the believer has died to personal agenda and reputation, making themselves entirely available.

Spirit Upon — An external event in which the Spirit of God comes upon a believer, which can occur while self is still active and does not require the same depth of internal emptying as fullness.

The Jordan — A biblical location representing spiritual transition, where a person's destiny, name, and function change; crossing it marks movement from one spiritual state into another.

Knowing (as used by demons) — Experiential encounter — not intellectual awareness. When the demon in Acts 19 said "Paul, we know," it meant Paul had been encountered and tested in the spiritual realm. To "know" is to have experienced.

Demonstration of Power — The outward display of God's reality in places of darkness where people do not have God; not a performance among believers but a revelation of the Kingdom to those without it.

Knowledge (in the context of faith) — The spiritual foundation from which faith operates — knowing what others do not yet know. It is what directs prayer, produces faith, and qualifies a believer to receive and release the power of God.

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Key Takeaways

• The progression from full of the Spirit to operating in the power is not passive — it is cultivated through emptying self and encountering opposition. Without this progression, believers remain in a cycle of prayer without demonstration.
• You cannot cast out, deliver, or heal what you have not personally overcome and carried. Ministry authority is directly tied to personal spiritual history — what you have conquered, you can release to others.
• Private prayer is for seeking; public presence is for performing. Confusing these two postures is the primary reason the power of God is absent from many believers' public ministry.
• Every tribulation is a qualification, not a punishment. Each trial conquered closes a gap of lack and expands the believer's capacity to carry and release God's power.
• Knowledge is the foundation of power, not a supplement to it. Faith, prayer, and spiritual authority all flow from knowing — and believers who lack knowledge will continue to perish regardless of how much they pray.

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Reflection Questions

1. Are there areas of your life where you are still seeking God's will in public — going to your knees before others rather than standing and performing what you have already received in private? What would it look like to make the shift?
2. Is there a specific spiritual opposition — a pattern of temptation, a recurring demonic challenge — that you have been avoiding rather than confronting? What is the cost of continuing to avoid it?
3. Where are you currently trying to demonstrate God's power among people who already have the light? And where is the darkness in your sphere of influence that God is calling you into?
4. What area of tribulation are you currently in — and have you considered that this is the exact area God is qualifying you to minister in? What would change if you embraced it as qualification rather than punishment?
5. Is your spiritual life being built primarily on motivational input or on genuine knowledge of God's Word and His ways? What specific knowledge do you need to pursue in order for your faith to become grounded rather than emotional?

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Prayers and Declarations

Opening Prayer

"Father, I pray for everybody that is watching in the name of the Lord Jesus. I pray that their life will never be the same. That which was different will become easy and that which was impossible, we turn it around and make it possible. Let everybody that is watching enter into the power of the Holy Ghost and that their life will never be the same again. Let them move from being led. Because Lord, you said, whoever has received the Holy Spirit, whoever has received you, you have given them power to become sons of God. But the upgrade from being a son of God is to become conformed to the image of Jesus — not only a son born of God, but one that represents and resembles God. And the resemblance of who you are, all Lord, is in your spirit. May everybody walk in the power of the Holy Spirit this day. Remove condemnation from them. Let them understand that this is an opportunity for them to enter where the Lord wants them to. Father, I thank you that this is done in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus."

"I pray for you in the name of Jesus that the Lord will touch you wherever you are. I pray that the Sulama-Nointing shall come upon you as you listen to this prayer. I pray that your spiritual ears and your spiritual eyes and your spiritual understanding shall be unlocked this day. I pray that the mysteries of Jehovah God shall be released unto you. I pray that you may know His power, that you may know His love, that you may know His mind in your life this day. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus. May what was impossible become possible now. I pray that my encounters with the Lord will become your encounters. I pray that every single angelic visitation that I've experienced may the Lord favor you today. May the Lord give you the grace to see the things that I have seen and beyond. I unlock you in the prophetic today. I release the Sulama Nointing upon you today. May angels ascend and descend upon you in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus. May the Lord be glorified through your life. May the world know that Jesus is alive by reason of Him manifesting Himself through you."

"I declare a prophet of God. There will be a difference from this day when you stand before people, when you pray there will be a change. There are people who know that the Holy Spirit is upon you and the other knowing you to do the work of God, to be a shield for your family, to be a defender of your family. Let it be so now, and Jesus might delay."

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Scripture References

• Luke 4:1 — "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness." (KJV)
• Luke 4:2
• Luke 4:14
• Matthew 6:6 — "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." (KJV)
• Acts 19:15 — "And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?" (KJV)
• Matthew 16:22-23
• Psalm 23:4 — "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." (KJV)
• Romans 5:3-4 — "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope." (KJV)
• John 13:16 — "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him." (KJV)
• Hebrews 11:6

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Golden Nuggets

"Somebody who is full of the Holy Ghost does not have self — self died."

"You can never cast out a demon that you never resisted in the first place in your own life."

"The power of God is revealed where people don't have God. The presence of God is experienced among those who know God."

"You do not demonstrate the power of God in the light. You demonstrate it in the dark."

"Knowledge makes you to pray. Prayer is a result of knowledge."

"Faith is simply knowledge of something that other people don't know. But you know."

"You only become more than a conqueror in what you conquer."

"Every temptation is an opportunity to enter into the power of the Holy Ghost."

"You can never enter into the power of the Holy Ghost if you are soft."

"The greatest motivation is to know that you are capable and you are sufficient with what God has given you."

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