Prayer leads to an outpouring.

“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”
Luke 24:49(KJV)

Before the outpouring of the Spirit in 1901 in Topeka Kansas, there was a man called Charles Parham who was hungry for more of God, so God sent him to Topeka that He will meet him there.

When Charles Parham got to Topeka Kansas he saw a huge building called Stones Folly, it was a castle with two towers that had been built and then abandoned. While he was looking at the building, he recognized that it was the same building he saw in the vision he had, so he spoke out loud, “This is the place.” While he was still speaking, a man walked out of the building and asked him why he was saying this is the place. Then he answered saying, “God showed me in a vision that this is the place He is going to meet with me.” The man answered and said, “the building has not been in use, so you can go in and have it.” So, he went in expecting to have a divine appointment with God.

While he was there praying, another lady called Agnes Ozman, who was the first to speak in other tongues on January 1st 1901, also came to the door of the same building where Charles Parham was and knocked,

because God had also told her, “I will meet you in Topeka.” So when she got there, she saw that it was the same building that God had showed her in a vision.

When Charles Parham came to answer the door and saw her, he asked her, “what are you doing here?” and she said, “God told me He will meet me here.” And he let her in. That was how people kept on coming into the building, till they started a Bible school and started praying everyday till the first of January 1901.

On January 1st 1901, there was an outpouring of the Spirit upon them and they began to speak in other tongues even as the Spirit gave them utterance. But I want you to notice that they had to spend time praying before this happened.

INSTRUCTION
Pray and ask the Father for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit upon His Church.

For further study read:
Joel 2:28-29, John 14:16, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1-21.

DOING THE WORD
Spend time to pray in the Spirit, and if you are not filled with the Holy Spirit freely ask the Father to fill you with the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13).