I don't think anybody is going to disagree with me in that we live in extreme times right now.

Do you sense that?

I think most people sense that.

Extreme times that demand real strength and impact and the same principle that elite athletes use to build efficient power.

We can really learn something how we can train our spirit to meet this hour.

Welcome to Jesus Smart X the Podcast.

I'm Brian Del Turco.

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Before we get into this quick episode today, let's dive into today's Jesus dynamic.

I actually have a rather long article that's in the oven baking and this Jesus dynamic is taken from that article.

It's unlike many things I've written.

I think it's going to be unusual and unique.

It's a lens through which we can view our experience with Christ in our times.

Most Christians picture Jesus in heaven doing primarily one thing right now, interceding for us.

We know the New Testament Scriptures tell us that and how we appreciate that and value that.

And we imagine him patiently waiting for the day when the Father says go get your bride and he takes up his role as a king on the earth during the millennium and then the new heavens and new earth to follow.

What if this understanding is incomplete?

I don't want to say it's fundamentally wrong, but incomplete.

There is one Psalm that shatters comfortable categories.

Psalm 110.

It's the most quoted psalm in the New Testament, and the early church treated it as the Master Key.

The Master Key that unlocked what happened for Jesus after the resurrection, meaning his ascension, his session in terms of his enthronement as king and his current role.

And I'll read just the first verse of the seven verses in Psalm 110.

The Lord said to my Lord.

What this is is the F saying to Jesus the Son, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.

Now this isn't symbolic language.

This is what we could call throne language, governmental language.

Peter actually quotes this Psalm, Psalm 110, in Acts chapter 2, on the day of Pentecost, after the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the newly born church.

He quotes this psalm to explain what just happened.

He doesn't say that Jesus will sit there someday.

He says that Jesus is sitting there now and that's why everything has changed.

He's ascended, he's been enthroned.

He's waiting for all things to be put under his feet and he has now poured out his Holy Spirit.

Paul uses this language.

He must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet.

Alluding to Psalm 110, he says that in First Corinthians 15.

Now here's what's startling.

Not only the most oft quoted Psalm in the New Testament, the most often quoted Old Testament passage period.

So this should speak to us.

We should be paying attention to this.

Psalm 110 describes a king who rules while his enemies still exist and are even actively resisting.

You see, the Father says in Psalm 110, Rule in the midst of your enemies.

That sounds, does it not exactly like the world that we're living in.

I mean, if you have any sensitivity, spiritually certainly going to say that Christ reigns, but opposition remains.

Alright, look, I'm a poet and don't even know it.

The throne is established but resistance continues.

Here's the picture.

Jesus isn't waiting to rule.

He's been ruling all along from the moment that he sat down at the Father's right hand.

Yes, it will reach its zenith during the millennium in the new heavens and new earth to follow.

But make no mistake, it doesn't start at his second coming.

It started at his ascension.

And that's why I think this article.

I've had a fresh level of inspiration and enlightenment understanding about Psalm 110.

It's always been a psalm I've enjoyed and have.

I would say it's in the top five favorite Psalms out of the 150.

Look, Psalm 110, it may be number one for me.

Actually it's actually more important to me than Psalm 23, if I can be honest with you.

Psalm 110 in conjunction with Psalm 2 and Psalm 149.

Listen, I'll get into it in the article and we'll talk more about it.

We'll probably do a dedicated episode, an expanded version for right now.

It's a Jesus dynamic.

I just want to drop It I want to plant the seed.

So with that kingdom framework in mind, Jesus reigning right now, let's talk about what it means to grease the groove in the Holy Spirit.

What on earth do I mean?

Am I making this phrase up?

Grease the groove?

No, I'm not.

This comes from Eastern European athletic programs.

You know, back in the day they discovered sports scientists and trainers in the Eastern European nations and in Russia discovered that frequent sub maximal exercises in terms of strength training.

They called it greasing the groove.

The Russian Pavel Satsulin.

I'm close on that pronunciation I feel, but probably not perfect.

Pavel Satsaleen came to the west and popularized this concept of greasing the groove in terms of training in the West.

Greasing the groove trains not just our muscles but our central nervous system.

Cns, our central nervous system.

And this is the key.

What this does is it optimizes muscle efficiency and it maximizes strength.

Now I'm on a personal experiment right now.

I've been on a health quest since.

April of last year when I got hit with shingles.

Here's how it works.

You get your maximum number of push ups that you can do.

In my case currently it was like 31.

Then you take 50% of that amount, which would be 15, and you do.

These really quick short sets throughout the day.

15 push ups spread throughout the day in multiple sets, maybe separated by an hour, an hour and a half in between.

And it's easy to do of course.

But what we want to concentrate on is form and execute technique and concentrate and it trains our central nervous system.

Now what I'm doing is I'm going through this process for two weeks, like six days a week for two weeks and basically doing about a total of about 100 push ups a day.

But it's spread out throughout the day.

It's not that difficult to do, although I am feeling a little sore and my body's not used to it.

But hey, that's okay.

It's good to be sore.

It trains your central nervous system.

And then I'm going to test my max again after a two week period.

So that's actually this coming Monday after the weekend I'm going to tax my.

I'm going to test my maximum again and I'm sure it's going to jump from 31.

I'm guessing it's.

I'm feeling like it's going to jump to 35, 36 after these two weeks and I'll be thrilled if it jumps to 40, but we'll see in my ultimate goal, Lord willing.

And if the creek don't rise as they stay, as they say in Kentucky, my goal is really Lord willing to get to 70, 80, 100 push ups max over months like this year.

Now today, this concept of greasing the groove, you know, hey, it's not like I'm some kind of a great physical specimen, okay, or great fitness person.

It's, it's, it's not that.

But I do value strength training and walking and you know, I do value exercise, okay?

Now today, this concept of greasing the groove and we're going to get to how we do this with our spirit, man.

This concept is used across different domains now, including like learning a new language or learning new anything, you know.

So for example, if you, if you're learning a new language and if you've ever done that like a course or something, you know how challenging that is.

And maybe you got, maybe you're in college or in some program, you got, let's say you got 60 minutes a day that you can budget towards language acquisition.

Instead of studying for 60 minutes straight, it's better to study for four 15 minute segments.

That's called greasing the groove.

And the constant recall of that spread out throughout a day, throughout a daytime period actually accelerates your learning and solidifies it.

So, but this can be applied to anything.

Learning a musical instrument or some techniques and processes in business, efficiency or anything related to personal discipline and, and more.

And so it's spread across different domains.

Now it started out in physical fitness.

Now likewise, small repeated spiritual practices can train your spiritual to respond with precision and power.

You know, the apostle Paul tells us to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus in 2nd Timothy 2.

1 Strength in our spirit.

And boy, do we need that today.

It isn't a one time surge.

It grows through faithful repetition each short prayer.

For instance, you know, Paul said to pray without ceasing.

How do we do that?

Well, I think we need to have a dedicated time of prayer daily, preferably in the morning.

But any whatever works best.

But then when he says pray without ceasing, what does he mean?

Well, we have things to do.

Of course we have to work, we got, we got chores, we got things, we projects, whatever we got things to do.

In what sense do we pray without ceasing?

Well, I think this could be it.

Remaining in a prayerful spirit throughout the day and then pulling aside for 60 seconds, 120 seconds, having a short prayer burst.

That's like greasing the groove.

Doing that set of push ups.

Okay?

Each short prayer, or each moment of gratitude, or each moment of consciously turning our attention and awareness of God and his kingdom throughout the day, each small act of obedience.

Obedience is faith in motion.

It's like a micro workout.

These are all like micro workouts for your spirit.

And I think we can grease the groove with our spirit, man.

You know, Paul's said, I don't know where it's at at the moment, but I think he told Timothy that physical exercise profits a little, but godliness profits for all things.

And you know, we could add for all time, for eternity.

So yes, we need to exercise physically, but godliness, the exercise of godliness, you know, those short prayers, those moments of gratitude, those small acts of obedience consistently, you know, let's not wait to be obedient to and until we are in pain, let's do it so that when the painful time comes, the trial comes, we are in a much better state of readiness for it, right?

Or prayer.

Let's not wait to engage prayer when we are in a crisis.

If we exercise prayer in this sense of greasing the groove, we will be better prepared to pray and speak to that mountain or speak to that crisis moment.

We'll be strengthened, you see, just like physically, excuse me.

I want to strengthen my cns, my central nervous system, so it can work in conjunction in alignment with greater efficiency with my muscular system in terms of movement, in terms of strength in my body, so too in my spirit, which I like to think of my spirit.

Our spirit is having the capacity of the, of revelational capacity, intuition, kingdom, consciousness, presence, consciousness, all of those different capacities of our spirit discerning.

I want to be strengthened in that everything flows from that core out.

That's why in Proverbs 4 it says to pay attention to our heart, for out of it flow the issues of life.

So spreading across our days, spreading across our weeks, these micro spiritual workouts for our spirit create amazing results.

So we can pray in burst throughout the day, pray without ceasing first.

Thessalonians 5:17.

This isn't a call to prayer.

Exhaustion, just like 15 push ups will not exhaust me.

It's actually comfortable in a sense, not in a total sense, but you know what I mean.

So this isn't a call to prayer.

Exhaustion, though we may have those times, I don't know.

Once in a while in our life we may pray for an hour, we may pray for two hours, we may exhaust ourselves in prayer, I don't know.

But generally speaking, this isn't a prayer, a call to exhaustion.

It's training our heart to stay connected, to stay in a conversational relationship with God and to pray, to intercede.

It looks like a return to gratitude.

Frequently, like in America and in Canada we have the Thanksgiving holiday in November.

Is that the only time we want to give thanks during the year?

No.

We need quick moments daily, weekly to reset our heart and our mind towards God's goodness.

And amazingly, the thing about gratitude, once we develop consistency and momentum in that is it becomes magnetic.

It's not some things a mind practice only.

No, it's actually a heart set that God is drawn to and we obey in small consistent ways.

Okay.

Another way that we grease the groove.

These tiny acts of aligning, tuning our will to God's will over time, these micro practices, they compound.

They compound the miracle of compounding in a kingdom sense, in a spiritual sense, building a resilient, responsive spirit.

So Paul says in Ephesians 6:10, you, however, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

This kingdom strength doesn't require marathon workouts to the point of exhaustion or failure.

It is a rhythm of micro practices, of consistent consciousness, of awareness that grease our spirit.

If we can say that and train us to stand firm, to act and make movement in faith and to bear abundant fruit.

You know this thing about movement in faith, in the physical sense of exercise, There is so much information about the importance of movement.

You cannot be sedentary, walk, do weight bearing, bodyweight exercises in your home or go to the gym.

But all of the different ways of physical movement, how important it is, it helps our joints, it helps our circulatory system, it strengthens our heart, it's good for us cognitively, on and on and on.

But what about acting in faith, faith in motion?

How important is that?

That we make moves daily, weekly, in our faith from our spirit.

Persistent practiced alignment.

Can we say this persistent practice, alignment with the king's palace produces authentic power and a royal impact in the earth.

Holy Spirit, would you inspire us, motivate us, remind us to train our spirit?

It's not a works righteousness, it's an alignment.

It's exercising ourselves towards godliness.

As Paul told Timothy.

Obedience and movement, consistency and disciplining ourselves.

And we're reminded, Lord, even now, that to be a disciple of Jesus Christ is to be a disciplined one.

It is to be a pupil, a learner, a walker, a follower.

Walking with Jesus, moving with Jesus, yoked with Jesus, moving in the fields, pulling the plow with him, bearing a load, coming against resistance, pulling with our Lord, in the earth we will experience the energy of Jesus, the royal anointing of Jesus, and the power and strength of walking next to one who is stronger than I, stronger than we.

And yet we're trained and we're reminded of Jesus statement even now.

Jesus said when one is fully trained, they become like their teacher.

And that's a reference, my friend, to as we are progressively trained in the Lord, we become like him.

We really do.

We have agency.

Greater works than these shall you do, he said.

He looked at his men and said, you feed them.

He turned around in the boat after Jesus stilled the storm, after waking up and said, where is your faith?

He wanted them to do it.

So as we're fully choosing trained as our character is forged.

This takes some time, but we progressively do the works of the Lord.

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