More signs and wonders

ACTS 5:12, 16 NIV

The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. ... Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.

We discussed this a little two evenings ago with Steve and Tamara.  I shared about John Frame's basis of three LORDship attributes: power, authority, and presence.  It seems to me that, as the Holy Spirit indwells us and anoints us, He deputizes us to be an extension of the LORD.  (I have to be careful with here not to be heretical.  To be sure, I am NOT saying that we BECOME God.) In this way, we are living as Christ lived, in the sense that He was commissioned, annointed, led, and empowered by the LORD.  Thus, as deputies and ambassadors of the LORD, by delgated AUTHORITY, we are commissioned and emPOWERed to bear His PRESENCE. 

We must have a relationship with Him to dwell in His presence.  Fundamentally, this relationship is sonship.  In His presence, we find rest and healing, and the focus and attention of our hearts is turned to celebrating His goodness and greatness.

How can I grow in relationship with Him so that I will be faithfully carry Him and dispense Him into the world around me?  Perhaps the basic spiritual disciplines of prayer, meditation on Scripture, and fellowship with the saints are helpful for us to grow in our closeness with Him so that He would be more effectively communicated through our living.

Heavenly Father, please help me draw near to you.  May I be faithful in the disciplines to seek you and know you.  May I be faithful to righteousness;  to be holy as you are holy.  Please use me as your instrument - a vessel for you to dispense yourself into others.  I love you, and I want to be useful to you.  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.