4 Steps of Privilege and Experience

Tip! Talking to God – This is the one on one type prayer – where we converse with God to develop our relationship with him. We may ask him to help us in areas that we need spiritual, physical or emotional support.

"And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." —Luke 15:31

The words of the text are familiar to us all. The elder son had complained and said that though his father had made a feast, and had killed the fatted calf for the prodigal son, he had never given him even a young goat that he might make merry with his friends. The answer of the father was: "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." We could not have a more wonderful revelation of the heart of our Father in heaven than this told to us. We often speak of the wonderful revelation of the father's heart in his welcome to the prodigal son, and in what he did for him. But here we have a revelation of the father's love far more wonderful, in what he says to the elder son.

If we are to experience the deepening of our spiritual life, we need to discover a clear vision of what is our spiritual life that God intended for us to live out. On the one hand; and, on the other, we must ask whether we are living that life; or, if not, then what hinders us living it out to the fullest.

This subject naturally divides itself into these four headings:—1. What is the high privilege of every child of God? 2. The low experience of too many of us believers. 3. The cause of the discrepancy; and 4, the way to the restoration of the privilege.