Friday | 30 January 2026
Writing to the church in Ephesus, and with this commission in view, the apostle Paul outlined the prayer focus of a presbytery. Like Paul, every presbyter is to bow their knee in prayer, asking that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ would give to those whom they address, wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; that is the mystery of God. Eph 3:14. They are making this mystery clear, ministering in the spirit and power of Elijah, so that their hearers in the church do not remain foolish virgins, but obtain the wisdom and understanding that belongs to the expression of a double portion of oil as wise virgins.
This will require that every hearer is strengthened with might in their spirit and soul (their inner man) through the Holy Spirit, who empowers Christ’s messengers with the seven Spirits of God for this ministry. The inner man of a hearer is strengthened for the purpose that Christ, who is the express image of the Father’s Person (i.e. the One who reveals and gives the Father to us), may dwell in their heart through faith. By this means, they can be ‘rooted and grounded in love’ so that they may see and apprehend the love of Christ that passes all knowledge, and so that they may be filled with the fullness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Eph 3:16‑19. Once a person is filled in this manner, the fullness of God, which is the seven Spirits of God, is able to overflow from them as ‘rivers of living water’! Joh 7:38‑39.
The work of Christ’s presbytery administration, which is presently seven stars in His right hand, and which will move to twenty‑four thrones around the throne of the Father, is to give this knowledge and fellowship to the saints as a double portion of oil. Here is a key point. The first portion of oil is receiving the initiative of God towards us. The second portion of oil is manifest when this ministry flows from us.
Further Study:
Ephesians 3
References:
Eph 3:14
For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph 3:16-19
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Joh 7:38-39
‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.