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Friday, February 13, 2026
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It’s the Smart Edit! Ready to “grease the groove” in the Spirit? Carry on.
This issue: train your spirit like a high-level athlete so you’re ready for anything and overwhelm your “stuckness”.
Make it a happy Valentine’s Day with those you love! —Brian
Each week, we highlight a Kingdom Dynamic, a key insight into how God’s Kingdom works in real life …
Greasing the Groove: Train Your Spirit Like an Athlete
We live in extreme times that demand real strength and impact. The same principle athletes use to build efficient power can train your spirit to meet this hour.
Are you READY TO COMPETE?
Eastern European athletic programs discovered that frequent, submaximal exercises—what the Russian Pavel Tsatsouline calls “Grease the Groove”—trains not just the muscle but the central nervous system.
This optimizes muscle efficiency and maximizes strength.
Today “greasing the groove” is used across domains including learning new things, skill acquisition, business efficiency, personal discipline and more.
Likewise, small, repeated spiritual practices train your spirit and will to respond with precision and power.
Paul tells us to “be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 2:1). Strength in the Spirit isn’t a one-time surge; it grows through faithful repetition. Each short prayer, moment of gratitude, or act of obedience (faith in motion) is like a micro-workout for your spirit.
Spread across a day or week, these micro-workouts for your spirit create amazing results.
Pray in bursts throughout the day. “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17) isn’t a call to exhaustion—it’s training your heart to stay connected.
Return to gratitude frequently. Quick moments of thankfulness reset your mind toward God’s goodness.
Obey in small, consistent ways. Tiny acts of alignment tune your will to His. Over time, these micro-practices compound, building a resilient, responsive spirit.
💪 “You, however, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might” (Ephesians 6:10).
Kingdom strength doesn’t require marathon workouts to exhaustion or failure. It’s a rhythm of micro-practices that grease your spirit, train you to stand firm, act in faith, and bear abundant fruit.
Persistent, practiced alignment with the King’s Palace produces authentic power and impact in the earth!
Let’s come before the Lord:
Lord Jesus, I yield to Your lordship today and RENOUNCE the LEMMING LIFE, choosing to live set apart and aligned with Your Kingdom. Move me away from what is not of you, and release the new creation life within me to daily live in your grace, righteousness, and authority. Amen.
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Greasing the Groove: A Smarter Way to Get Strong
I’m doing this with pushups and squats now. Doing a max test for pushups on Monday after 2 weeks. Excited to see a jump. We’ll see! I’ll report back. Does this approach interest you? — Brian
Most training pushes you to fatigue in one hard workout.
Grease the Groove (GtG) flips that model.
Instead of one intense session, you perform frequent, submaximal sets throughout the day—often around 50% of your max. You stop well before getting tired.
The goal isn’t muscle failure.
It’s neuromuscular efficiency.
You’re training your nervous system to fire the right muscles more effectively. The movement becomes smoother, more natural, and stronger. Over time, your reps increase—not because you’re exhausted, but because your body has mastered the pattern.
It’s especially powerful for bodyweight skills like pull-ups and pushups, where coordination and neural precision matter as much as strength.
Small sets. Practiced often.
Strength through repetition, not exhaustion.
(This approach originally came from Soviet sports scientists and trainers. Pavel Tsatsouline in the video popularized “Greasing the Groove” in the West. BTW, this technique can be used across a bunch of domains like learning something new, skills, business, and more.)
WORD WEALTH 🪙
Work the Works
Jesus: “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work” (John 9.4 NKJV). Ergon (er-gon) means occupation, enterprise, task, assignment, course of action. What works has the Father given you to do? What is your assignment in this season? His works for you comes with his energy.
Related: see the new, growing collection of Smart Edit ‘Word Wealth’ segments.
The world lives in extremes—sprint, crash, repeat. You’re different. Following the King means steady strength, not emotional spikes. You don’t wait for pressure to pray. You don’t wait for pain to obey. You train your spirit daily. The crowd scrambles when trials hit … those walking with Christ have a cadence of greasing the groove in the Spirit that makes them ready.
All in. “And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.” Jesus, Mark 12:30 NLT
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