Now how do you get filled with the Holy Spirit? How do you get God's power? Quite
simply by just asking. Now look what the Bible says in Luke chapter 11 verse
number 9. And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall
find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth,
and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a
son shall ask bread of any of you
that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a
fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Now
this passage is not referring to salvation because an unsaved person
doesn't say, give me your Holy Spirit to be saved. They don't even know about those
things, right? Typically people don't even learn that they're indwelt with the
Holy Spirit till after salvation. They got a little bit of doctrine and they're
like, oh wow I'm indwelt by the Holy Spirit. This is referring to believers
asking God for his power. And in fact the parallel passage to this says, how much
more shall your heavenly Father give good gifts to them that ask him?