Almost 300 Postings Follow 'A Portion Of My Testimony'!

Back in '91 i had been in "search of the church(aka: Ecclesia, which i now testify -IS - "The Family of Our FATHER and ELOHIM"!)" for almost 5 years. And i had crisscrossed this place on earth they call the u.s.a. from Vermont to California, Washington to Florida, and North Dakota to Texas(Was in all original 48 states, except Maine)!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-of-faith-or-system-of-religion.html

During that time i knew in my heart that "Our FATHER(CREATOR) and ELOHIM(SPIRIT{'God' IS of pagan greek mythology!})" wanted me to give up my vocation(Self-employed computer consultant, systems analyst!), yet i didn't know what i could do, or would do, if i did quit. (John 20:17, Proverbs 3:5-6)

However, the experiences while on that journey, as i searchcd for the 'church', revealed much of that which -IS- of The TRUTH! And simplicity became a beacon for me! i had left most of my possessions(Which actually possessed me!) behind when i began my search in earnest, and i could load all my "stuff" into the back of a '76 ford courier pickup w/shell.

Then finally, in November of '91 while in colorado, "i quit"!

It was then that i awoke from the "american dream" and said, "no more" to the ways of this world!
 (John 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 4:4, II Corinthians 6:17, Revelations 18:4)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-whole-world-not-just-portion-is.html

"Rulers are not a terror to good works!?! But to the evil"?!? (Romans 13:3)

TRUTH IS!  Romans 13:3 DOES NOT bear witness unto worldly rulers in these last days! 

For TRUTH IS! In these last days, "The WHOLE world IS under the control of 'D'evil one"!(Yet Thankfully The Family of Our FATHER and ELOHIM IS !NOW!, for "The Born Again" brethren(naturally male or 'fe'male) of The Messiah! For He DID "Come Again" and "Quickly" when old jerusalem was destroyed! And The Messiah then delivered up The Kingdom unto Our FATHER and ELOHIM!)! (John 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 4:4)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/06/thy-kingdom-has-come-luke-1721.html?m=0
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-realized-miraculous-born-again.html#more
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-come-quickly.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-messiah-did-come-again-what-then.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-whole-world-not-just-portion-is.html

And "whoever would be a friend of this world IS the enemy of Our FATHER and ELOHIM"! (James 4:4)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/09/whoever-would-be-friend-of-this-world.html

Thoughts, philosophy and religion cause the multitudes to follow that "broad way to destruction"! (Matthew 7:13)

The following was posted in response to a comment that simply stated, "Good thoughts!"
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i appreciate the encouragement yet it needs be REALized that "thoughts", and/or "philosophy", and/or "religion(Except The Active Faith revealed in James 1:27!)" walk hand in hand along that "broad way to destruction"! (Matthew 7:13)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simply-progress-so-called-is-destroying.html

"Behold I(ego, id, self, pride) thought", has led the multitudes astray....... (II Kings 5:11; 5:1-14)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/02/behold-i-thought-2-kings-51-14.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html

TRUTH IS! A soul needs "receive a love of The TRUTH to be saved" from their own thought filled self("l", ego, id, pride)life, and then Hopefully "Born Again" of The Holy, Set Apart, SPIRIT that - IS - Our FATHER and ELOHIM('God' IS of pagan greek mythology)! (II Thessalonians 2:10-13, I Peter 1:23, John 3:3,7)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-needs-receive-love-of-truth-to-be.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-realized-miraculous-born-again.html#more

Self ("I", ego, id, pride) Denial Begets Faith, And Thankfully TRUTH - IS - Faith Wins The Victory Over Sin, 'D'evil and Death!

Someone had testified, "Self-confidence is the key: do you have it"?

And i responded:

Rather than "self-confidence", self("I", ego, id, pride)denial begets Faith, and Faith evermore begets self-denial! (Luke 9:23)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/06/life-or-death-easy-choice-however-to.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html

And Thankfully Faith Wins The Victory over sin, self, religion(James 1:27 reveals The Active Faith of The One and Only "Pure Religion and Undefiled"!), 'D'evil "god of this world", and ultimately death! (I John 5:4, Galatians 2:20, James 1:27, I Corinthians 15:54-55, Mark 8:34, John 11:26)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/07/thankfully-faith-wins-victory-i-john-54.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2019/01/devil-prince-of-power-of-air-ephesians.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-messiah-testified-whoever-lives-and.html

Philosophy - IS - of the mind of man! Mankind's "imag"ination, reasoning and logic.......

The following - IS - a testimony i gave in response to a Hindu believer who was of those souls who believe philosophy is a good thing.

Philosophy - IS - of the mind of man; his "imag"ination, reasoning and logic! And/or his lack of understanding concerning that which he has experienced.......
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/thoughts-philosophy-and-religion-cause.html

For TRUTH  - IS -! "If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know(It's not that which i know but that which i have received!)"!  (I Corinthians 8:2; 2:16)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-that-are-unable-to-do-least-why-do.html

Simply, philosophy has it's portion in "the wisdom of this world" and "knowledge(aka: Science!), falsely so-called", which "are but foolishness unto Our FATHER and ELOHIM('God' IS of pagan greek mythology)"! (I Corinthians 1:20; 3:19, II Corinthians 1:1, I Timothy 6:20)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/our-father-and-god-considers-wisdom-of.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/knowledge-falsely-so-called-i-timothy.html

The Messiah, "CREATED{not 'made'} so much better than the angels"! (Hebrews 1:4)

The 1st Day of Creation "Our FATHER and ELOHIM('God' IS of pagan greek mythology!)" spoke HIS Word into being! http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/our-father-and-god-john-2017.html

Such was bore witness of in Genesis 1:3; "Let There Be Light!" and "there was Light".......
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-1st-day-of-creation-genesis-11-5.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2010/06/let-there-be-light.html

And after that 1st Day of Creation Our FATHER and ELOHIM then Created The Heavens - and the earth and vegetation - and the sun, moon and stars - and that which lives in the waters - and the creatures of the earth - and the fowls of the air - and man-kind! Male and 'fe'male Created HE them in HIS Image! (Genesis 1:6-31)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-two-unique-creation-accounts-of.html

"History Reveals The Need To Cease Being Religious"!

For TRUTH IS! NEW Covenant believers, those 'Born Again" brethren(naturally male or 'fe'male) of The Messiah yet on earth, have REALized that our "citizenship(Life) IS !NOW! in Heaven"! And that we have our portion !NOW! in "A Holy Nation" of "Kings and Priests"! So IT IS that the "Born Again" son's of "Our FATHER and ELOHIM('God' IS of pagan greek mythology!)" want as little as possible to do with that which IS of 'D'evil's world and/or religion's way(Except it be The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27!) in these last days! 
(Philippians 3:20, I Peter 2:9, Philippians 2:15, John 1:12; 3:3,7, I Peter 1:23, Romans 8:14, John 20:17, Revelations 1:6, John 7:7, I John 5:19, James 1:27; 4:4)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-new-covenant-and-new-covenant-jew.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-realized-miraculous-born-again.html#more
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/09/whoever-would-be-friend-of-this-world.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/05/come-out-of-her-my-people.html

Yet in these last days, as in times past, religion was and IS yet needful for "disobedient and gain-saying(Contradicting and opposing ELOHIM!) souls! Those souls who remain "stiff-necked and uncircumcised of heart and ears"! Souls who would rather have a man, than Our FATHER and ELOHIM, speak to(Liken unto Moses!) and rule over(Liken unto Saul!) them! (Romans 10:21, Acts 7:51, Exodus 20:19, l Samuel 8:4-21)

http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/religion-was-and-is-yet-needful-for.html

A "foolish man builds his house upon the sand"!

A "foolish man builds his house upon the sand", the shifting sand that is the ever changing ways of this evil world and/or religion's way(except it be The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27)! And in this day and age "the sand" is also those "biased and perverted colored marks written on a dead tree and bound in fabrication" that those of this evil world and/or religion's way call their 'bible'.
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/all-so-called-biblical-translations-are.html 

Yet in spite of the bias and perversion, "The Word of TRUTH" can still be rightly discerned and understood by those souls who have "received a love of The TRUTH so that they might be saved"! (Matthew 7:26, John 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19 James 1:27; 4:4; 1:18; II Thessalonians 2:10-13)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-needs-receive-love-of-truth-to-be.html

For Thankfully, Our FATHER and GOD, HE IS ALIVE and HE yet communes with HIS children! And HE IS yet able to reveal ALL that IS Truly needful unto the brethren of The Messiah, those souls who "received a love of The TRUTH" and then were "Born Again" of HIS Holy, Set Apart, SPIRIT! Those souls who, liken unto The Messiah, have also REALized "i can do nothing of my own self"....... (John 3:3,7, I Peter 1:23, John 5:19,30; 8:28-29; 7:16; 9:4; 12:49-50; 14:10,23-24; 17:8,14, Matthew 16:24-25)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/our-father-and-god-he-yet-communes-with.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-born-again-experience_15.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-messiah-testified-i-can-do-nothing.html

Philosophical meanderings of worldly and/or religious souls!

Simply, philosophy IS NOT of The TRUTH, for that which IS of The TRUTH WAS, and - IS - !.......FOREVER.......! Yes, and Thankfully so....... (II Thessalonians 2:10, II Peter 3:10-12, Revelations 10:6)

Yet that which was and IS of the philosophical mind(OR religion!) will soon pass away! (Philippians 2:5)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/03/philosophy-is-of-mind-of-man-mankinds.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/religions-way-is-anti-messiah.html

So IT IS that philosophy saves no soul, for "a love of The TRUTH - IS - that which needs be received for a soul to be saved" from their own self("I", ego, id, pride)life....... (II Thessalonians 2:10-13, Luke 9:23)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-needs-receive-love-of-truth-to-be.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html

And TRUTH IS, "If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know"! (I Corinthians 8:2)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-that-are-unable-to-do-least-why-do.html

Someone asked, "Why does GOD do nothing"!

"Why does GOD do nothing"? 

Someone had asked that question because liken unto all "natural" men and women, they "see" and REALize only that which IS of 'D'evil's world and/or religion's way(Except those souls who have REALized The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27!) in these last days! So IT IS they can not discern nor comprehend that which IS of The SPIRIT that IS "Our FATHER and ELOHIM('God' IS of pagan greek mythology)"! (John 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 1:27; 4:4, I Corinthians 2:14, John 20:17)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/08/natural-life-is-but-shadow-of-life.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-whole-world-not-just-portion-is.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html

And they asked, "Why does GOD do nothing?" because those of 'D'evil's world and/or religion's way(Except it be The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27!) in these last days are destroying Creation(air, water, land, vegetation, creatures), even as they evermore ignore and/or pervert that which IS of The Holy, Set Apart, SPIRIT that IS "Our FATHER and ELOHIM(TRUTH, Light, Life, Peace, Love, Faith, Grace, Mercy,,,,,,, ALL that is Truly GOOD)"! (Revelations 11:18d, :8, Isaiah 47:10, Jeremiah 23:6, Romans 16:18)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simply-progress-so-called-is-destroying.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-religion-was-and-is-yet-needful-for.html

Being set free from materialism and inordinate desires!

Someone testified, "We are much too materialistic now and our desires cause us to seek ever more."

And i responded(With further testimony added!):

For the worldly and/or religious souls - IT IS SO - !

Yet TRUTH - IS - !       Such needs not be.......

Hopefully there will be those souls who REALize that to be of the "We" who are of 'D'evil's world and/or religion's way(Except The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27) in these last days, - IS - to be of those souls who are evermore destroying Creation(air, water, land, vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which - IS - of The SPIRIT that - IS - TRUTH(Light, Life, Peace, Ahimsa, Love, Faith, Grace, Wisdom,,,,,,, ALL that IS Truly GOOD)!  
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-whole-world-not-just-portion-is.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/religion-was-and-is-yet-needful-for.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simply-progress-so-called-is-destroying.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/behold-world-is-coming-together-as-one.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/love-not-world.html

And apart from The TRUTH, what - IS - ? 

THE Problem common to all mankind!

Someone had posted a comment that bore witness unto the catch phrase, "Do your own thing"!

And i responded(With further testimony added!):

Should not the brethren(naturally male or 'fe'male) of The Messiah seek and desire that which He sought and desired above ALL else!

YES, more that this natural life itself we should also seek and desire;

"FATHER, not my will, But THY Will Be Done"! (Luke 22:42)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/07/father-not-my-will-but-thy-will-be-done.html

YES!!! 

For Our FATHER, HE knows what - IS - best for HIS "Born Again" children!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-realized-miraculous-born-again.html#more

And Hope IS there would be that moment in time when you would comprehend and REALize that the "I(ego, id, self, pride)" way - IS - a soul's #1 "problem"! And - IS - "The Problem common to -ALL - mankind"!

So - IT IS - "The 'I(ego,id,self,pride)' Must Die" for the - WE - to be in The Family of Our FATHER and ELOHIM!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-messiah-testified-i-can-do-nothing.html

Sadly, the atomic bomb proves the "best" that mankind can do!

Someone had testified, "Humans are a tiny evolution from those powerful natures.  Nature consists of great energies. Such energies cannot be created or destroyed by humans. The best they can do is to change them from one to the other........

And i responded(With further testimony added):

Sadly, the atomic(Nuclear!) bombs and missiles of various types and sizes have proven the "best" that mankind can do!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simply-progress-so-called-is-destroying.html

And destruction breeds perversion and "every evil work", and perversion and "every evil work" breeds destruction! Yet Thankfully TRUTH - IS - "The LORD(ELOHIM{'God IS of pagan greek mythology!}) will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto HIS Heavenly Kingdom: to WHOM be Glory Forever and Ever, Amen..." (II Timothy 4:18)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/12/progress-or-progressive-destruction.html

"ELOHIM(aka: God) has no religion"!

Mahatma Gandhi testified, "God(ELOHIM! For 'God' IS of pagan greek mythology!) has no religion"!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html

And i believe such a testimony to be of The TRUTH(For in times past, and in these last days The Faithful ARE Family! The Family of Our FATHER and ELOHIM, "both in Heaven and ON EARTH")!  (Ephesians 3:14-15, Galatians 6:10)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-of-faith-or-system-of-religion.html

TRUTH IS! That(Religion's way and israel!) which was "decaying and waxing old" DID "vanish away" with the destruction of the natural, earthly temporal temple realm centered in old jerusalem"! 

And then; 

Thankfully The Kingdom of Our FATHER and ELOHIM in Heaven DID Come!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-end-of-world-or-old-covenant-age.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-new-covenant-and-new-covenant-jew.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/06/thy-kingdom-has-come-luke-1721.html

And IS !.......FOREVER.......!

Why then was religion needful?
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/religion-was-and-is-yet-needful-for.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/04/carnal-warfare-is-religions-way-which.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/religions-way-is-anti-messiah.html

TRUTH IS! If the israelites of old had been faithful, "hornets would have driven the inhabitants out of the land" that YHVH was going to give them! (Exodus 23:27-33)

Why "religion" was and IS yet needful for the natural man!

First, "what of The Faithful son's of Our FATHER and ELOHIM? (Philippians 2:15, I John 3:1-2, John 20:17)

Abraham and Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, The Prophets, and ALL The Faithful had, and yet have, no need for religion's way(Except it be The Active Faith as revealed in James 1:27!). For they "trusted and loved The LORD their ELOHIM" with "all their heart, mind and soul and strength"! (Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 12:30)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/religions-way-is-anti-messiah.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/pure-and-undefiled-religion.html

And TRUTH IS! As Mahatma Gandhi testified, so IT IS "GOD(ELOHIM) has no religion"! And he also testified, "those who believe religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion IS"! (Needs be i testify that i have great respect for Mahatma Gandhi but i do not seek to follow him for i but seek and desire to follow The Messiah on that "Narrow Way")  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/04/carnal-warfare-is-religions-way-which.html

TRUTH IS, in these last days The Faithful will not create a religion, for The Faithful ARE Family! (Ephesians 3:15)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-of-faith-or-system-of-religion.html

What - IS - Success, and who - IS - Successful?

Simply, "Success" - IS - of and - IN - The SPIRIT that - IS - The Life! (John 11:26)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-messiah-testified-whoever-lives-and.html

!.......FOREVER.......!

And it needs be that i testify, "of all the men who have received the breath(Spirit/air) of life since i received my first breath in '43, i respect Mahatma Gandhi above all others(A Prime Example of A Soul Who Was and - IS - Successful)! The source of such respect being The Spirit -  OF -, and - IN -, the quotes attributed unto him!

Two of Mahatma Gandhi's quotes are quoted in this blog(In italics) and my comments follow:

And as the title of this blog questions, "What - IS - Success"?

Kids Everywhere! Where Have All The Children Gone?

The following was heart felt and transcribed more than forty years ago, and IS clearly evident today!

Do you feel as i feel?

Do you wonder just what's real?

Do you see the little child?

Do you see them running wild?

I see their hurts and i see their tears,

I see their doubts and i see their fears!

Now could be that's what i look to see,

Yet what i see IS real to me!

Now am i alone to care and cry?

Or must i close these eyes and surely die.......

Sadly, it seems that in these last days "kids" evermore abound! 

"You that are unable to do the least! Why do you take thought for the rest"? (Luke 12:26)

For TRUTH IS! "If any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know"! (I Corinthians 8:2)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/09/knowledge-falsely-so-called-i-timothy.html

For IT'S NOT that which "i know", but that which i have Graciously been allowed to see(experience) and/or hear(receive) concerning that which IS of The TRUTH!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/thinker-or-receiver.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-intent-is-not-to-parry-and-thrust-in.html

And Thankfully, that which IS of The TRUTH IS, and IS-------> 

!.......FOREVER.......!

If, and when, a soul finally begins to grow ^up-ward^, evermore "trusting in The LORD with all their heart"! IT IS then a soul begins to Truly REALize that the only thing i know IS, "I(ego, id, self, pride) don't know"! (Proverbs 3:5)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html

"The City of The Living ELOHIM, The Heavenly Jerusalem"!

TRUTH IS! The "Born Again" brethren(naturally male or 'fe'male) of The Messiah no longer have their portion with those worldly and/or religious souls begotten from the natural womb of a woman, because natural souls are begotten of "mother earth"and are earthly! Yet NEW "Jerusalem which IS Spirit; IS above; IS Free; and IS !NOW! The Mother of us all(Spiritually "Born Again" son's{naturally male or 'fe'male} of Our FATHER and ELOHIM)"! (John 3:3,7; 20:17, I Peter 1:23, Galatians 4:26) http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-realized-miraculous-born-again.html#more
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2012/10/set-your-affection-on-things-above.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/10/being-set-free-from-materialism-and.html

Hebrews 12:22-29: "For you are come unto mount Sion, and unto The City of The Living ELOHIM, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels!

And unto the gathering of the general assembly of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven! And to Our FATHER and ELOHIM The Judge of all; and to the Spirits of just men made perfect.

And to The Messiah, the mediator of The NEW Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks of better things than that of Abel.  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-new-covenant-and-new-covenant-jew.html

ALL that IS Truly GOOD, IS SPIRIT! And needs be received!

A soul had commented: "Faith in SPIRIT and faith in matter are the two sides of the same coin. Faith like wisdom can not be acquired. It is a divine heritage of one's soul. Blessed is one who sees Timelessness in the passing moments!"

And i responded(With further testimony added):

Such a statement IS but proof of The TRUTH, as revealed in "The Word of TRUTH"! (James 1:18)

For TRUTH IS! There are multitudes of religious souls who "serve not The Messiah but their own belly; those who with good sounding words and fair speeches evermore seek to deceive the hearts of the simple"! (Romans 16:18)  http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2012/10/taking-bait-and-lies-are-swallowed-hook.html

As for your "two-sided coin"; faith in that which IS temporal("Matter"; or that made by man; or that which IS here today yet gone tomorrow!) IS liken unto spitting into the wind, yet that which IS of The CREATOR can edify and increase one's Faith in The CREATOR!

So IT IS, that liken unto The Messiah, His brethren(naturally male or 'fe'male) also seek & desire above all else:

"FATHER, not my will, But THY Will Be Done"....... (Luke 22:42)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/07/father-not-my-will-but-thy-will-be-done.html

Such Faith Truly Matters!