SHULAMITE PODCAST

Episode #285 - The Hidden Life into the World

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Jesus specifically prayed that we would be preserved in the world but not removed from it. The Lord wants us to take our Hidden Life out into the world and affect it with just His presence. Carole always quotes the song: "I have a Light." She was in peace in the midst of that chaos and felt there was a solitude for us in the midst of it all. Julie said the Lord is always testifying about Himself. Length: 13:16

Episode #284 - Living the Hidden Life

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

.A day of discovery when several of us went to Atlanta to see the "Bodies Exhibit." In the chaotic crowd of loud humanity we were out of our element, away from our quiet life. Yet the Lord's presence and purpose were powerful and in the end, very evident. Length: 14:41

Episode #283 - The Majesty of Christ

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Practical situations are not common at all because the Lord is in them. The Christ of scripture was content to move unknown and unseen. Jesus was so noble and regal in His movements through the earth. He didn't come to the healthy but to the sick. And now indwelling us, He shows unbelievable respect for those who are in need. The Lord comes in all His dignity to our daily practical lives and we live watching Him and learning Who He is!! Length: 14:28

Episode #282 - The Mystery of the Church!

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Julie discovers that Christ arranged for her to meet and comfort a man in Home Depot. She said nothing but walked with him for a few minutes. "The Son of God wanted to come down and walk with that hurting man." From that experience, she realized that she has been impacted by Body Life, especially by John's kindness and respect in the normal pathways of life. Carole sees the Blood of Christ flowing and circulating through the one Body of the Church. Length: 13:12

Episode #281 - Living Stones

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Loss of self focus, He is able to quietly take over and be Himself. We are seeing the presence of Christ in our Body, through each one as He so naturally expresses His own Being. 'The self life at the core and at the end of it all is so wretched and pointless.' Carole found the expression of Church in Ephesians 2:20-22. Christ's indwelling is complete and energized! Of course He will bring worship to glorify God as God, revealing God as God!Loss of self focus, He is able to quietly take over and be Himself. Length: 9:55

Episode #280 - Uni-focus

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

John sees a greater union with God than Eden. The Lord wants us to experience Him and know Him so intimately as to live within. Jesus' statements meant "If I leave I can come IN you and reveal Myself through you." That is the greatness of God, that my dust can reveal the greatness and grandeur of God. Length: 14:06

Episode #279 - Real Life Reigning

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

John learns a huge and vital lesson about the meaning of authority and its relevance to our preparation for ruling and reigning with Christ. This 'spiritual lesson' happened, of all places, in the chicken barn. With humor and honesty, John tells the chicken story. Jennifer saw it from another angle, that to attempt a task without God given authority is to experience a debacle! And she tells her story of the bear-mauled dog. Length: 18:36

Episode #278 - Reflections

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The Shulamite group, having read the Hidden Life manuscript respond to it personally. Don sees the booklet as a s tribute to the Lord Jesus Christ. Julie received the sense of rest that Christ Himself will impart this life. Jennifer says this is the life of an utterly intimate time with God and is a calling for all, not just a few. The booklet assures that it is possible in Christ to experience this L-I-F-E! Length: 9:20

Episode #277 - The Hidden Life

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The new booklet is a combination of the original message plus the distillation of Martha's 25 years of ever learning more about living a Hidden Life. Julie asked for practical how-to in the booklet for young believers. Jesus lived from His secret meetings with God and the impact of that was in all He accomplished. Length: 12:34

Episode #276 - Announcement

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Our new awaited booklet has been finished and will be introduced at the Reign of Grace Conference. "Hidden Life" is 4th in the Hearing God series and 16th in the booklets that are Martha's foundational message from her proven walk with Christ. The process of bringing it forth into print has been a travail of everyone at Shulamite, by prayer, experience and Body life. Length: 13:54

Episode #275 - Knowing a Father

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Julie sees with joy that the Father has always been working in His plan for all of us so that we would know Who He is as a Father! The Lord gave Julie a song in response to a podcast comment (from D in Michigan) a year ago. That insight deeply impacted Julie. Hear this lovely song: "Face to the Son." Length: 14:58

Episode #274 - Knowing the Lord is ALL

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Shulamite Retreat considers 2011. There is no way to measure a year's accomplishment since only God knows what HE accomplished. Martha calls it "a strange empty year of fullness. This is a year He has both weakened us, struck where we are trying and shown us where we ARE weak - in one form or another." "The One Thing is to behold Him." All we have to 'do' is see Him Who is the Vast Mystery of God. All God wants is that we would see and know His Son. Don shares that He is all the provision we need. God's plan is so perfect and we are to rely solely on Him. Length: 17:34

Episode #273 - Conference Special Part 2

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"The Reign of Grace" We Shulamites have been reduced as Church by chastening and crushed by blessing! This has been deep preparation for this very conference. The way to "Rule and Reign with Christ Now," is not at all what we assume and the Lord is pouring out His ways. Length: 12:28

Episode #272 - Conference Special Part 1

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The Reign of Grace This elegant phrase is Romans 5:21 and became the title for our coming conference: "Ruling and Reigning with Christ Now" Thanksgiving as a sacrifice to God is one principle of ruling and reigning. Come celebrate with us all, our wondrous Lord Jesus! Length: 16:40

Episode #271 - Abiding in His Love

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The Shulamite New Year retreat continues. . . Julie says everyone who is forgiven much, loves much. The irony of love is that when we are most transparent and needy, we are accepted and loved. But when we hide and lie, we are isolated from God's love and human love as well. "It's terrifying to open yourself up to love." Jenn shares her year's experience of knowing Christ as King. From seeing the Lord, she could then see Him in each person in our fellowship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO-Cp2kcFjc Length: 12:33

Episode #270 - Life and Death, Light and Darkness

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

True fellowship in the Body of Christ is based on each member coming to the light as "He Himself is in the light," and "the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:8,9) That alone is fellowship! The danger of the Last Days is clearly given us in scripture. There will be many deceivers, even among ourselves, and we need life's experience of reality to develop discernment. It's crucial that we live by a Hidden Life with God where we receive His marvelous grace and extend it to others. Length: 15:08

Episode #269 - New Year's Church Meeting

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Looking back on 2011, Carole saw the expression of Christ's Life in each member of the Body of Christ. T. Austin Sparks wrote: "Why are we here? We are here to make a place for the Lord." Those who harbor secret sin and hidden bitterness bring death to members of the Body of Christ without their knowing it. We are called to warn and admonish each other to receive the grace and mercy of God. Length: 15:35

Episode #268 - A Stone Jar, Empty

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

God finds us in our hard, futile state and the water of the Word comes into us to reveal Jesus. Then we are filled with the Spirit of Christ and transformed by His indwelling to become a vessel full of Him, 'poured out wine.' (The Wedding of Cana: John 2) Christ wants to live His joy, His love, His faith within and through us. Length: 19:46

Episode #267 - The Simple Gospel

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Martha met with a young woman, called to New Zealand to join Youth with a Mission (YWAM). This lovely gal, with honest integrity, knew she needed two things: courage and faith. The Lord gave her a special and very personal answer: a brilliant statement expressing the gospel - "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Come and hear His answer! Length: 11:23

Episode #266 - Peace in the Rest

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The more we are dependent, the more we are not disturbed. There is nothing in life that Christ doesn't transcend. God's rejoicing is not in our ability but in our dependence. The cross severs you from false hope in this world and gives you security in the kingdom. Length: 15:21

Episode #265 - Citizens of Heaven

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The Lord spoke to John, "This is a good day.'" We are being delivered from a false hope to have hope in Him alone. Phil 3:20 "Our government, our nation, our home is in heaven, not on this earth. We literally belong to another government not of this world, a reign that is over all other governments and not subject to the decline of our power as a nation." Length: 13:54

Episode #264 - I AM The God Who Is Holy

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"I AM THE GOD WHO IS HOLY" We don't really know that HE IS GOD nor that HE IS HOLY. Very few follow Jesus through denial of self to the cross. Jennifer sees that so very few experience the miracle of living in a Body where reality and accountability are gifts of Christ's presence. On the other side of the Cross there is such glorious reward . . . the love of Christ. Length: 14:49

Episode #263 - The Holy Will of God

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

In the face of an offense, faith is active, not passive, always needing to hear the Lord's view. When John the Baptist needed comfort from prison, Jesus' answer was "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me." John sees that the word 'in' implies an intimacy of relationship with Jesus. He said, "When the will of God is your highest value, then the will of God is your comfort." Length: 13:53

Episode #262 - Holiness as a Child

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

We are decreased in order to simply receive ALL from God as little children. Our adult efforts thwart Him. Andrew Murray says, "Holiness is the presence of God in rest." Christ Himself is the Sabbath, the rest that all is finished in Him and it is now only to believe. Length: 14:59

Episode #261 - Called to Holiness

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Carole quotes from the article 'Four Faces of Christ' on our website. "To know the Lord as Lion is to live in the safety of the fear of God." We need to know Him to be as terrifying and holy as He is. Julie sees that holiness is Sonship. Ephesians says we were created to BE holy. To meet Him in His holiness results in the joy of knowing we are His children. John says, "God's calling to holiness is a statement of Who He is, but He is not asking us to perform it, He is asking us to receive it. His holiness is the dance that He is leading." Length: 13:29

Episode #260 - Holy To The Lord

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

The Holy Spirit has given us a fresh revelation of what has been a long term experience: God's Holiness. Lev. 21:8 NLT "I, the Lord, am holy and I make you holy." Authority brings the cross and the cross is the path to holiness. Jenn says that our walk is a progression of the call to His Holiness by the chastening that makes us able to receive His gift of the new creation. Length: 15:23

Episode #259 - Light is Love

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Love is all about the life, words are cheap. If there is real life present it is undeniable. When as a Body we journey, every place is influenced by what He has formed in and among us in real life. The journey is right through the Cross and only the Cross will bring you to the love of Christ at its highest and best. No greater Love exists, than Christ in His dying on the cross for the world. Length: 15:46

Episode #258 - Time to Love

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

John quoted Jesus that love is laying down your life for your friend. Love is vulnerable and His radical unending sacrificial love is beyond our knowledge. His Love is not affected by anything in us. Yet Love gives you the freedom to reject His Love. Length: 15:18

Episode #257 - The Mission is Love

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

A journey is full of the unknown and that makes it exciting. We don't know what events will unfold on the pilgrimage nor the people we will discover. As we 'go' in life on our wandering paths, the purpose is to love the Lord in all places and let His love capture us to be the vessel of that contagious Love. Length: 15:30

Episode #256 - Life is a Mission Journey

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

The Lord said to Carole as she prayed, "Your life is a mission journey." Perspective is seeing through God's eyes, from the place of His reign. Wherever I am I must see from God's view. What IS the mission? The mission is Love. God is widening our view as a "panorama" (beyond our understanding) and "amplifying" our purpose, which is bringing Christ's love into every place we go. Every believer is on a mission journey. Length: 15:36

Episode #255 - The Last Days

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400

For us in these days, the Light of God's call and revelation are on this issue of personal responsibility. God's way is 'through' not around and not escaping our basic work of life. And we will never know God without living in the very life He has given us. The paradox of our work is that when we take it up, then He is there to bear it all. Length: 12:16

Episode #254 - The Power in Work is Love

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The basis of our accepting responsibility is having experienced the Love of God. Knowing His Love and loving Him is our only motivation for working in His will. So we come to weigh any problem as an issue of Love. "Love is the basis of all true morality." Length: 13:34

Episode #253 - The Work of Faith

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Faith is believing that Christ performs your work for you. We are called to this enormous work, given assignments of great things and then we are told not to do it but to BELIEVE Christ can and will, as the indwelling power for living. We are to exert diligence to enter the rest that God in Christ has given to His own. Length: 14:20

Episode #252 - The Work of Believing

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

"The walk in the Spirit is more instinctive than deliberate." We learn to trust the Lord as He moves in mystery through our lives. Faith for such a life comes just from seeking Him. We ask Him not so much for what to do, but what to believe. And when the Word comes from Him, we receive the faith as a gift. Length: 10:11

Episode #251 - The Work is Union

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Christ's life could not have been more down in the normalcy of life: born in a stable, working as a carpenter in a small village. The basic work is seeking the Lord. The first work (before any work) is to ask the questions of God and the second work is to bow the will to the answer. Carole sees the work as Union! Christ in me, the hope of glory. Length: 11:03

Episode #250 - The Energy of the Spirit

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Let's put no limit on what God can do with and for each of us - spiritually, physically, mentally. Greatness is not necessarily fame or notoriety, but living to the fullness of your own destiny. "For that which is His plan, there is complete presence and provision." All God asks for is faith to say yes to His vision. And the entire motivation of anything we do is Love: for Him, from Him, to Him. Length: 15:30

Episode #249 - The Risk of Being

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

"Get it done" is often our agenda about work, without regard to the Lord. Work is to be a joyful dance with the Lord where the energy and vitality for the work actually comes from Christ. We also set limitations on our thinking, ability and strength. The energy of the Spirit infuses us with incredible capabilities which are beyond us. Length: 16:06

Episode #248 - Work is about Relationship

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Don shares from his own life the discovery that work is not about work but about relationship with Christ. "Work is all about His Son." There is rich reward for all that we allow Christ to perform and the reward is Christ Himself! Learning to work in the Lord and His will is a basic foundation for life. Length: 14:39

Episode #247 - The Carpenter

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The enemy knew that the most marvelous manifestation of Christ on earth is to allow Him to live in and through our human body. Several books of the Epistles were written for the purpose of strong warning against the heresy of 'gnosticism' that was coming against the gospel of the Incarnation. Romans 12:1 "present your body.' Length: 16:27

Episode #246 - The Humanity of Christ

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The first heresy that came into Christianity in the first century was known as "Gnosticism." It was a satanic attack that denied the humanity of Christ and made Him to be a 'phantom.' This is a most subtle lie that is prevalent today as much as then. When we seek to remove the indwelling of Christ from our practical, physical life and depend on knowledge for our path to God, it can become the heresy of gnosticism. Length: 14:45

Episode #245 - Eternal Work

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The current CDs of the month continue and expand our subject of Work in the Lord. When the Lord performs the practical tasks through us, it is eternal and everlasting. We know Christ in His amazing humility when we let Him be the energy and strategy of the work assigned to us. To know that your work is eternal is a great joy! Length: 14:25

Episode #244 - The Vibrancy of God's Rest

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

My rest, His work. Jennifer is seeing and experiencing the dynamic work of the Lord. Human performance and Divine energy are of two different races of humanity. God wants to give and we are so difficult to give TO! The Prodigal son could receive blessings he did not deserve because he was reduced to need, the primary need being forgiveness. Length: 13:44

Episode #243 - The Order of the Lord

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The Order of the Lord: The Rest of the Lord is actually faith, not inertia or passivity. Rest is the Lord's present and actual participation, down in the common most mundane place of our lives. We rest from human drudgery and Christ's power from within meets and accomplishes our responsibilities. And that experience creates wonder and fresh delight in Him. Length: 10:44

Episode #242 - The Practical Work

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Our work is going to be examined and exposed when Christ returns. The fire will appraise our work and there will be a reward for letting Jesus' practical life live through us. We work on the foundation of Christ's life within the vessel. There are just two things we need to do: ask and receive. Length: 14:17

Episode #241 - The One Fear

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

There is one fear permitted to the believer: the failure to enter the rest of God. (Hebrews 4:1) The rest is faith in the finished work of God. God will commend us on what we received not on what we did. In our lives, God receives only what is of His Son. Length: 12:37

Episode #240 - Law Out, Grace In

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

When you realize the futility of your own labor that's when you learn grace. All things are given from our Great Giving God and our joy as His children is simply to receive. Length: 10:10

Episode #239 - More Booklet News

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

In this time of great confusion the new booklet brings into clear focus the place of Christ and the Holy Spirit in a life of prayer. We take the need of life into a communion with the Lord and it becomes a great adventure, a marvel of knowing the Lord's mind and plan. Length: 19:43

Episode #238 - The Booklet is Published!

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The Booklet is Published! Martha, John and Julie discuss the finish of the booklet "The Secret to Answered Prayer." The process of the birthing of this word has been long and intricate for all of the Shulamites, but John and Julie are confident and excited that it has been worth the wait. Length: 15:44