Friday, January 23, 2026
Happy January, Friend,
It’s the Smart Edit! The year is young👶 — time to Kingdom Asymmetrical!
This week: the Kingdom’s asymmetrical advantage, over-the-horizon questing.
The Kingdom’s Asymmetrical Advantage — Are You Leaving It on the Table?
Each week, we highlight a Kingdom Dynamic, a key insight into how God’s Kingdom works in real life …
Jesus does not call his followers to out-world the world.
He calls us to operate from an entirely different order of reality — “My Kingdom is not of this world.” A whole different authority. Different terms and conditions.
This is the growing Christ-follower’s Asymmetrical Advantage.
Note ➡ this is for growing Christ-followers. “… grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Development. It will take time with him.
Asymmetrical advantage is the ability to overcome by operating from a different set of rules. It leverages mismatch, using what is inaccessible to others to produce outsized impact.
🤌 Gideon’s 300 fighting men
🤌 David dropping Goliath with a kill shot
🤌 The woman with multiplied oil to clear debt
Out-sized. Out-matched. But out-powered—by God.
Spiritual gifts are given for the common good. They are a prime example of Kingdom Asymmetrical Advantage. The Holy Spirit distributes the supernatural capacities of Christ to ordinary people.
These are Christ Capacity gifts like wisdom from above, extraordinary faith, the effecting of miracles, and more. See 1 Corinthians 12.
Consider dialogue with God … prayer. It’s probably the most undervalued asymmetrical resource!
🙏 It could seem like inactivity, but it aligns with the Prime Mover.
🙏 It produces delayed but powerful manifestation.
🤲 It supersedes natural human systems.
Prayer shifts realities upstream . . . by the time fruit and results appear in the natural, the issue is already decided.
Amazingly, even weakness becomes leverage.
Paul learned that where human strength ends, God’s power shows up most — “And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected (fulfilled, completed) in weakness’” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
The cross itself stands as the ultimate asymmetrical move—what looked like shame and defeat for Jesus became the decisive strike against sin and death, reconciling everything to the Father.
If this reframes how you see pressure, conflict, or spiritual growth, forward it to someone who’s fighting hard—but maybe on the wrong terms and conditions.
Let’s come before the King:
I give my attention to Jesus. Holy Spirit, show me everything that belongs to Jesus. I rejoice in the Kingdom Asymmetrical Advantage. Show me how it works in the Kingdom. For the glory and story of the Father. Amen.
(We’re using the New American Standard Bible for Scripture quotes, unless we note otherwise.)
On the POD
Over-the-Horizon Questing: Faith for What's Next (EP 262). You can't see what's coming over the horizon, but your faith can reach it now. Like Abraham crossing into unseen territory, you're called to exploit horizons.
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Consider the principles of RELATIONSHIP and PROXIMITY. Fringe malcontents gathered around David—and they were transformed into his legendary ‘Mighty Men.’ You’ll want to take a look at them in the Old Testament — they were other-worldly. Kingdom Asymmetrical. Paul encountered Jesus and then turned the Roman world upside down. Proximity to the King shakes it up!
One verse. Zero context. Total shutdown.
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