Sermons & Devotionals by John Follette
John Follette
Miscellaneous
My mother used to say: "To discipline a child, you have to go back to its mother and grandmother: (wise) I never had a problem child in school. Anything we hold and retain becomes a snare. The enemy came to Jesus, but had nothing to hang on to. You can listen and not hear, and you can look, and not ... Read More
John Follette
Music
I don't always enjoy hymns and music used in some places. Some songs annoy me. They have a rhythm, and a tempo that is not in rhythm, and in gear with what I feel in my spirit, and it annoys me. We have so few hymns going back to God. Most of them are salvation hymns. There are three kinds of hymns:... Read More
John Follette
New Birth
In this dispensation, the Holy Spirit brings us into a relationship with God as sons. We have an heavenly Father. In the Old Testament, He is never revealed as a Father, and we as His little children. When Jesus comes, He makes anew relationship with the Father, and now we are to be born of the Spir... Read More
John Follette
New Creation
We go home under the overshadowing of His wings, and when the pressures come, remember that the overshadowing is where He works His miracle. It is not in the open. How shall these things be of bringing forth the Christ Child? How shall these things be that a new creation be birthed in us unto its fu... Read More
John Follette
Opening the Word of God
I shared this the other day, but I want to remind you of this truth you must remember in your Bible work. Read the Bible, study the Bible, love the Bible. But you know by and by it takes such various forms to you. How many feel, when you read the Bible today, that you aren’t reading the same book yo... Read More
John Follette
Our Being Conformed to the Image of Christ
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren" Rom 8:28-29. There are those... Read More
John Follette
Our Being Emptied
“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.” Jeremiah 48:11 Let us consider Paul as an illustration of this process of our... Read More
John Follette
Overcoming
An overcomer is one that comes over and not around the difficulty. I want the theory that disciplines me most thoroughly, and demands of me all that it possibly can; not one that makes it all so easy that there is no overcoming necessary in me; that does not minister anything to me. There is a time ... Read More
John Follette
Personal
I am spiritually minded; my feet are upon the earth, but my heart is in heaven. It is good to be in both realms, and to adjust yourself. That is really living. When I teach, I am teaching out of my heart; not out of a book. I teach out of my life. This gives me authority to preach and teach things I... Read More
John Follette
Peter After
The second incident which I think is one of "these things" spoken of in the opening phrase, is found in John 18:15-19. Here is the sad picture of Peter's failure. He has denied his Lord and is now among His enemies. He has made a fearful botch of the whole thing. What a failure after a close and hap... Read More
John Follette
Peter Before
This afternoon I want to talk to you about Jesus. I want you to see Him in action that you might see how He handles certain situations. He is unique in the way He deals with people because He has such wisdom and tact. The story I want to take up is found in John 21:1-18. Let us read it over again to... Read More
John Follette
Pools of Heshbon - His Reflectors
THE SACRAMENT OF THE HILLS I have seen beauty my heart cannot sing! How can I tell in words the sacrament Of truth God spreads upon the autumn hills? How strange the silence deep within my breast When I beheld this miracle of grace! The wine is mighty--drink deeply, my soul, And taste the dregs of b... Read More
John Follette
Prayer and Intercession
Touch Him when you don't know how to read the Bible, but touch the Word -- touch Him; know His will; know God; know His purpose. Keep up a wonderful fellowship with the Son of God. You can read a lot of books on prayer, some of which are quite materialistic, but no one has a form of prayer which is ... Read More
John Follette
Principles of Faith
Many Christians approach the realm of the Spirit as if it were a "happy hunting ground" in which they are free to move as they please, regardless of spiritual laws. Then they mistakenly expect to have a well-balanced Christian experience. In our spiritual experience, there are principles which are a... Read More
John Follette
Realm of Spirit
The most real thing in the world is a life in the Spirit; most detaching, because our spirit is released. Keep that spirit open, as a sensitized plate that's exposed continually to God. Then that application of God, flowing and moving over us continually, does something to this plate. It has the pow... Read More
John Follette
Redemption
Paul, with regard to his body, spoke of its majesty as a "temple of God", a sacred, wonderful thing. Paul gave it the elevation it needed. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?" He will dwell in it, and there will be temple worship. He will dwell in us; He will sing in us; He will have real te... Read More
John Follette
Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus was God's seal and act of approval signifying that His death was sufficient. Jesus never resurrected Himself -- God raised Him from the dead. God the Father was pleased, and satisfied with His victorious life and death. In raising Him from the dead, God gave testimony that ... Read More
John Follette
Samson Slays a Lion
Out of the Strong Up from the vineyards of Timnath A young lion came one day-- The flesh in its strength and beauty-- And roared as he sought his prey. Snarling and growlinq from hunger He moved down life's dusty road, And roared as he saw a Christian Alone and near no abode. The Christian stood wit... Read More
John Follette
Satan
When the devil looked at Calvary, he saw his Waterloo -- his defeat. That's what is the matter with him. The devil is conscious of his defeat. That is why, in the closing of this dispensation, the wroth of the enemy is being felt all the time in more intense form, because he sees the net drawing in.... Read More
John Follette
Second Coming
In regard to the Second Coming, the believer does not need the external signs such as the Jew returning to Israel. Those are for the ones who need to be aroused by great signs -- but the believer is looking for these spiritual signs: 1. When the cup of iniquity is full. (That's the negative sign.) 2... Read More
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John Follette (1883 - 1966)
Follette was a gifted Bible teacher and author, who had both perspective and spiritual depth in his interpretation of the Word. He was an illuminated spirit in the field of spiritual reality, and had an unusual ability to impart “spirit and life” into those who sat under his ministry.He received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1913 while a student at a Bible School in Rochester, New York, and later became a teacher there until the school closed. He also taught for many years at Southern California Bible College. During the later years of his life, he was called into a wider field, ministering in conferences and retreats which took him around the world. He passed into his eternal reward in 1966 at the age of 82.