To properly understand Ephesians 3:7-13, I highly recommend you go back and read the sermon manuscript on Ephesians 3:1-6, especially my opening comments about how my thinking has changed over the years about this important passage.. 1. Ministers differ in their gifts and qualifications. 3. The ministerial gift. Ephesians 3:7. 2. Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power. See Ephesians 3:13 (printed below) Therefore, I ask you not to be discouraged because of my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory. Ephesians 3:7(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Tuesday (Ephesians 3:7–9) 3:7 I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power. (Ephesians 3:13) The Ephesian Christians were very much aware of what the apostle Paul was going through on their behalf, and they were distraught for him. Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Paul was commissioned to deliver a sacred secret to the believers at Ephesus, a mystery that had been hidden for ages and generations, but which was entrusted to him and other holy apostles of Christ's. 3:8 To me—less than the least of all the saints—this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ The ministerial gift, which God of grace giveth, makes a minister. The Purpose of our Spiritual Position (Ephesians 3:1-21) Paul’s Parenthesis (Ephesians 3:1-13) Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; Ephesians 3:7 “Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me by the working of his power.” The gospel is the amazingly good news that God is saving, or at least wants to save, every person whether Jew or gentile through the promise in Christ Jesus; God’s grace is available to all.