Urban City Podcast Blessings, everyone. You are listening to The Cry Out Corner on Urban City Podcast, and I’m your host, Elder Crystal Frazier. I’m the Founding Director of All Things in Common Ministries, ADIC for short, and I’m so excited to be joining you on this platform and have the opportunity to talk about biblical insights in the context of our present-day challenges.

I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God and it is the truth by which I live and guide my life. I believe, like God told Joshua, that the more we meditate on the truth of God’s word, the more we keep it in our mouth and our hearts, we will have great success. And in these first couple of episodes, we talked about discernment.

Now I want to pivot to the topic that I have recently been affected by, and in these next couple of broadcasts, we are going to dissect the supernatural love of God and how do we put it into practice daily. So I’m just going to start out sharing my heart, just a real transparent post. I celebrated my birthday in the month of March, and I usually celebrate for the whole month, but this month was a hard month for me.

Honestly, I had gotten so tired of some things and some people, and I really chose to get away. So the moment I had the opportunity to minister in Oklahoma City, my birthday weekend, it was just the perfect excuse that I needed to get out of town. And I always say this when I minister, even when I mentor people, if you don’t ever deal with the root cause of why you feel the way you feel or why you do the things that you do, you can move 3,000 miles away.

And from everyone and everything that you hold familiar, but you will follow you wherever you go. So needless to say, when I returned the things and the people that I was frustrated with were very much still present and it wasn’t the change of scenery that I needed. It was the change of heart.

So my daughter threw this surprise birthday party for me. And that particular weekend I was resting at home. And if you really know me, you know, I don’t really get weekends at home when I can just lay in my bed.

So when I can lay in my bed, I’m usually there for the duration of the weekend. And so she was throwing this surprise birthday party for me. And my husband had to let me in on the secret because he knew that that was the only way I was going to get out of bed.

But my first mind was to tell her to just cancel everything. You see, you can get so tired of people and really just so tired of being disappointed by people that I just didn’t even want to show up. I didn’t want to deal with them.

I didn’t want to deal with me. And so my husband really kind of poured into me and let me know how much she had been doing and I didn’t want to disappoint her. So I went to wash my hair and got myself together to leave.

And as I was sitting under the dryer, I began to talk to God and pray because I really needed him to help me if I was getting ready to go face these people. And so the Lord began to tell me, he said, you know, Crystal, you have loved people to the capacity that you have. And he said, it’s in times like this when you need to tap into me like never before because there’s a dimension that’s in God that’s limitless.

It’s without measure. It’s eternal really. And so whatever’s eternal is infinite.

There’s no, there’s no stopping and there’s no parameters on it. And he said that that’s the measure you need to tap into. He said, because if you stay right here, you’ll always be limited.

And I really needed to hear that. It gave me the push that I needed to get out the door. But something happened when I really got to that party that the Lord allowed his love to be poured on me in such a way that it began to heal the issues inside of me.

And I really understood what it meant to launch out, to push patch, push past yourself and to launch out into him. So I just want to read a couple of scriptures and let’s talk about this love. So first Corinthians 13, we know that to be the love chapter.

First Corinthians 13 verses nine and 10 though, when we only talk about the love of God, we don’t really extend to read the rest of the chapter. And these are the verses that really are dealt with me. And it says, for we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

And that word perfect, or that word part there literally means measure. And if we examine ourselves, we do a lot of things from our capacity and from our expectations, from our measure, and not from the place of tapping into the perfect one that lives on the inside of us. And even that perfect one that is graced us to do everything that he’s called us to do.

See, we love out of our measure out of our own expectations of reciprocity. Well, we only extend ourselves to the measure that the other person has extended themselves to us, or we love based on our measure of what we think we deserve and how we think we deserve to be treated as narcissistic as that can be. But when we encounter and accept the perfect one, we must also become perfect.

And that word perfect means that we are integral and an integral coming from the root word integer. That means that we become one with our perfect lover. It also means that we become complete and we become in agreement.

So whatever God’s mind is, that’s the mind that we agree with. And however he sees people, however he intends to love people through us, then that’s what we agree with. Now, John three is usually dealing with our new birth.

And you see this familiar story where Nicodemus runs up on Jesus and he’s having a conversation with him by night. And in this conversation, Nicodemus asked God, how can we be born again? Shall a man enter his mother’s womb again? And Jesus says, no, you need to be born of the water and of the spirit. But John three 16, if we read further down in that passage, it, we hit a very familiar passage of scripture and it says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

That love that God is talking about in that particular scripture is his agape love. It literally is his unconditional God kind of love. And it’s the love that is the result of his nature and a result of his holiness.

That word world in that scripture, it means it’s coming from the Greek word cosmos, and it literally means the harmonious arrangement or constitution. It literally means God’s government and his order. And anything that’s inside of a government is, is defined by this.

It says the actions or manners of controlling or regulating a nation organization or people. And this is what love should be. It’s the love of God that regulates our actions and our manners.

It is the love of God that brings us our culture. And it brings definition to who we are for the Bible says that they will know who we are. They will know that we are Christians by our love.

Now that word world meaning order, meaning that God died for us to literally bring us back into his order. And his order beloved is love. When we believe on him, then we cannot be destroyed.

But when I have the love of God and my belief system is rooted in Christ, then it literally brings me into everlasting life. I now inherit the life of God. When I love, like God loves when it says to believe it comes from the word Pistio, which means to be persuaded of, or to have a confidence in.

And so it’s this love that I believe in, that I have confidence in and I have been persuaded by. And that Zoe life, that God kind of life is the life that I inherit. It’s a life that makes me active and vigorous.

It is a life that possesses vitality and it’s a vivifying life that quickens me, that pushes me into God’s movement. And so what is God saying there? He’s saying that there is a birthing by the water end of the spirit that brings me or gives me access into a supernatural order of my origination. And that’s the birthing up by love that the love of God literally brings me into the original, uh, original person that he’s always intended for me to be.

It’s when I’m been birthed by his love. And when I agree with his love, that not only it brings me into original intent, but when I shared that love for my brother, for my sister, I now love them into the original place that God always intended for them to be. And I’m telling you, this is not a love that you can do when you are so based or so, uh, so standing upon your own expectations, because this is a love that’ll launch you past your own expectations.

This is a love that looks beyond what you expect to get out of any situation or any relationship. This is a love of God that you love people freely. Like God loved people freely.

There’s a passage of scripture in Hosea. I believe it’s Hosea three and 14. And it says this, he says that I will heal you from your waywardness and I will love you freely.

So many times we don’t practice the free love of God in our relationships, but when we love God, when we love God’s people, like he loves his people, there is a healing that takes place inside of that love. So when I love my brother or my sister, the way God intended, then there is a healing to their heart. There is a healing even to their present day condition.

And then it says this, he says, I give that love freely, that that love is not based on what anybody may do to me or what they may do as a result of the love that I give them. That’s just the love of God that we give away because we’ve been born of his righteousness, born of his spirit, born of his mind. This is the place that God wants us all to love his people.

And this is also a place where God wants us to love ourselves. Because when we look at Romans or when we look at first Corinthians, the 13th chapter, we say that love is kind and love is patient. Love holds no record of wrong.

And my brother, my sister, I promise you that that’s not just the love that you give away, but that’s the love that Christ intended for you to love yourself with. So ask yourself, have I been patient with myself? Have I been kind with myself? Do I hold my mistakes in my mind, not moving past them, but holding them and letting my mistakes now define my present day condition. That’s not the love of God, but the love of God holds no record of wrong.

It says that, yeah, you may messed up. Yeah. You may have done some things wrong, but you still have the ability.

You still have the power to live in his righteousness and his holiness. Let the love of God, not only heal your neighbor, but let that same love heal you today. I love you all.

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You can find me at elder crystal, Frazier.com and join me every Monday morning at 6. AM on Facebook and on YouTube for God mornings, but God meaning, uh, another Hebrew word for prayer. And it’s where we strike the ground in prayer and we strike. We don’t miss.

And we pray until something happens till the next time. Let the cry of the Lord be in your mouth. I love y’all.

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