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 attic for short.
And I’m so excited to be joining this platform and have the opportunity to talk about biblical insights in the context of present day challenges that we are all facing. I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God. It is the truth by which I live in God, my life.
And 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. So we’re in this series talking about the supernatural love of God, how it is personally affected me and how we put this supernatural power into effect every day for supernatural love has got to be practiced. And we talk about practicing everything else.
We practice medicine, we practice sports. We practice a number of things to make us better. But what we don’t practice is love.
You’ve got to practice love in order to perfect love. Anytime you want to perfect anything, which means that you have been authorized, you become an author or a master in it. Whenever you talk about perfecting something, you’ve got to practice it.
So the last episode we talked about, uh, that John three and this Nicodemus story about how man has got to be born again of the water and of the spirit and how the Lord tells Nicodemus, uh, that you’ve got to be born again. But then he goes on to talking about how love is how we are birthed. We are birthed through Christ love.
And I’m telling you, y’all, we are entering into the resurrection season where we all celebrate Easter and we all go to church. If you don’t go to church, any time of the year, you are probably going to church on Easter Sunday, but that one Easter Sunday where we all dress up, but that whole Easter focuses around how Christ went on the cross and he died. He shed his blood.
But why did he do that? He did it because he loved us. He did it because he loved us. And it’s that same love that allows us to be born again.
That same love that has literally bought redemption to our lives. My God, it’s that same love that allows us to live like Christ lived in the earth. So everything that pertains to my first birth is a birth that’s in iniquity.
David said this, he said, I was born in sin and I was shaped in iniquity and the patterns and the cycles of trauma and fear all pertain to that first birthing or even to a former, a bloodline. But when we are born again into the love of God, we are born with a new mind. We are born with his mind and we are born from another bloodline for he shed his blood for us so that we could come into covenant, into reconciliation, and now into the family of Christ.
And I’m telling you all, if we don’t live from that place of love, that if I don’t live from the place where Christ died for me and he redeemed me, shed his blood so that I could be a new creation in him. He shed his blood so that now I could walk as a son of God. If I don’t live in that dimension of love, then I will always live out of a lower dimension, out of my first birthing, which is a birthing that has is full of trauma, full of past experiences that have not been redeemed by the blood of God.
It’s full of a life of past sin and past error. And if I don’t come into that dimension of love, into that dimension of new identity that he has me in, then I will always live in a fleshly carnal dimension. And whatever affects this fleshly dimension will always affect me.
So whenever I’m outside of the love of God, what are you saying? Elder? Whenever I live a life outside of my original identity, and then I will always live a life that’s full or that’s held captive or held slave to the dimensions of this world. So that means that I’ll live a life that’s affected by the conflicts of this world. I’ll live a life that’s affected by the ups and downs of my job, the ups and downs of my home, even the ups and downs, the ebbs and flows of this economy, whatever is subject, uh, whatever I subject myself to, I also subject myself to the conflict that surrounds it.
Y’all. I said something right there. Whatever I submit and subject myself to, I subject myself to the conflict that surrounds it.
My God. And when I allow that conflict to be a part of my everyday practice, then it not only becomes the conflict that’s around me, but it becomes the conflict that’s in me. So what am I saying? When I don’t give my life to Christ, when I have not submitted myself to his love, then I have submitted myself to something else.
And my God, I want to invite you to let the love of God really heal you in those places of past fear, past trauma, to really deliver you out of those places and introduce you to this perfect life that’s in him. Now am I saying that walking with God will always be cherries and ice cream every day? No. But what I am saying is this is love that’s teaching me about who I am.
That’s providing me his perspective on things. And even the things that I may go through, I don’t go through them alone, but I go through them with his love. And even those tribulations that I go through, that those things are teaching me, they’re teaching me about me and they’re teaching me about this great God that I serve.
Y’all let’s go to Romans five real quick. This is one of my favorite passages of scripture. It’s one of my favorite passages of scripture.
We’re going to go to Romans five and I’m going to start reading at verse one. It says, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of glory of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulation.
Also knowing that tribulation work is patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope makes us not ashamed because of the love of God. That shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy ghost, which is given to us. So we see here that because I’ve been justified by faith, what is my faith? It is the faith that Christ died for me.
And that faith that I have has now made me just, it is now made me justice. If I have never seen, it is literally made me the righteousness of Christ. And it’s by that faith that I stand in grace.
And what is his grace? It is his supernatural power that enables me to do what I could not do on my own. And so those places where I could not love somebody on my own the right way, it’s his grace that allows me to love them despite of who they are, despite of what they’ve done to me. It is his grace that now allows me to love them like he would love them.
And because I stand in this grace, it allows me to rejoice in the hope of his glory. And that thing hope right there, it says that what, what does that do? In verse three, it says, not only so, but we glory in tribulation knowing that tribulation works patients. And I said this when I preached this on the other Sunday, that because I am justified and I stand in the grace of God and now I stand in the grace of God to do what I could not do before in my natural man, I can do it in my spirit man through Christ Jesus.
And so every tribulation that I face, what I now look at it, I look at it like these are just God opportunities in my life. Oh Lord have mercy. I just get so happy when I say that because I don’t look at tribulation now as a place of it’s beating me down.
I’m tired. I’m frustrated. I’m in fear.
And this tribulation is now living on top of me. I’m not living on top of it, my God. But when I, when I am in the grace of God, I now triumph over every tribulation and I triumph over it because my perspective has changed y’all that my perspective now about tribulation is that these are just God opportunities in my life.
And what is the, what is the opportunity? It’s the opportunity for God to show himself strong, to show himself mighty, to show him as the deliverer, to show himself as the healer, to show himself as the way maker, to show himself as my mind regulator, to show himself as the breaker for he has allowed me to break through, break through every situation. My God, these are just God opportunities. And then it says this, it says that that tribulation, it works patience in me.
And now any of us that know the scripture, it says over in James that we should let patients have her perfect work. Why? It’s because that, that this patience that has our perfect work has made me now entire and complete and I lack nothing. And so whenever I allow God to have his God opportunities in my life, whatever, whenever I allow him to show himself mighty and strong in my life, what’s happening is it is perfecting me and it is making me complete.
And I’m telling you, I lack nothing. And then it says that this patience works experience. My God, that I’m telling you, I can tell you right now that if God did it before, he will do it again.
I have experience with him and that experience work at the hope in me and that hope makes me not ashamed. No matter what I may be facing, no matter what trial, no matter what letter I got in the mail saying that my government job is just ended. No matter how this stock market is flip flopping, no matter how much my 401k may be looking in shambles right now, that this whole makes me not ashamed and it is because the perfect love of God now has done a work in my heart.
It’s been shed abroad in my heart by the Holy ghost. Glory to God. It’s his love that allows me to come into his agreement with that.
Remember in the last episode, I said this, that when perfect love, when the perfect love of God has come, what’s what was partial and temporary will be now done away with. And so when this love of God, my God, when this love of God empowers me, I’ve got to come into agreement and alignment with God’s mind. And what is his mind? Lord have mercy.
What is his mind? His mind says that even those that have lied on me, even those that have belittled me, even those that have dishonored me, even those that have frustrated me and tried to slander me, I’ve got to love them not because of me, y’all, but because of God. Woo. Hallelujah.
It’s the thing that I could not do in myself. I can do now by the power of God because it’s a hope that doesn’t make me a shame in the face of my enemies. So it doesn’t matter whether my enemy, maybe a person, whether my enemy, maybe a situation, whatever that enemy is.
When I come into agreement with that, which is perfect. My God, it allows me that supernatural place where I can stand in grace. Glory to God.
Woo. Hallelujah. Then if we look over in Ephesians y’all, when we look in Ephesians in the third chapter, and I’m going to go real quickly to the 16th through the 19th verse, this is Ephesians three and I’m going to go to the 16th and 19th verse and I’m going to end it right here.
It says that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breath and length and depth and height. Then it says, and to know the love of Christ, which passive knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Y’all, I said something when I preached this message, I said that whatever we are rooted in, that’s where we get our strength by.
So when I have roots in something that those roots don’t just allow me to be stable when I’m rooted in Christ, I’m stable in Christ. But it also means that when I’m rooted in Christ, I’m strengthened by Christ. And I’m telling you that we have been strengthened too long by fear.
We have been strengthened too long by past trauma because those are the things that you found yourself rooted in. You could be rooted in bitterness and I’m telling you that bitterness will strengthen you. If you find yourself rooted in poverty, that poverty mindset is the thing that you’re drawing strength from.
But I’m going to tell you this, the Bible says that we can be strengthened by the love of God. And when I am strengthened by the love of God, it allows me to comprehend with all the saints. What is the vastness of Christ? You are there is a place where we are so strengthened in the love of God that our faith now becomes strengthened.
That word comprehend comes from the Greek word, and it literally means to take hold or to possess. So when I comprehend something, I don’t just understand it meaning in a place where I can repeat it back or to even explain it back to you. But when I understand or when I comprehend something by faith, it means that I take hold of it and I possess it.
So I don’t just understand the love of God, but now I have taken a hold of the love of God and I have become the love of God. Whatever you comprehend spiritually you will become. And so today I want to invite you, my brother, my sister take hold of the love of God so that now you can comprehend what is the vastness of God.
What is the vastness of his love toward every man that believe it. That is not just to those that you like, but it’s those that too he has called you to, whether they be the black man, the white man, the Greek man, the Jew Paul said this, that I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for is the power of God unto salvation to every man that believes not just to the people that I like, not just to my family members, but it’s to this whole body of Christ and to everyone that will believe on Jesus you all. I invite you to launch out into that love of God and when you launch out and you comprehend that love of God, you become that love of God to all men.
So I want you, I want to invite you to join me on all my social media platforms. You can find me at elder crystal Frazier on Facebook, on Instagram, on tic tac, as, as, as my old people like to call it, tick tack instead of tick tock and you can subscribe to my website at elder crystal Frazier.com. Join me every Monday morning on Facebook and Instagram at 6am where I lead a press service called Pagoda mornings and it’s the place where I teach, I preach, I pray. I want you to invite me to invite you to walk this journey of love with me and I thank you for following me even on the cry out corner and the urban city podcast.
So the next time we meet, I encourage you, let the cry of the Lord be in your mouth. Bye bye. Urban city podcast.
