Sermons & Devotionals by John Follette
John Follette
Spiritual Development
I keep warning young people, and I often say to them, "Listen, this is the only time you will have to make certain decisions, surrenders, and choices in your life. These decisions and choices that you make now govern marvelously things which will happen thousands of years in the next age. This is th... Read More
John Follette
Spiritual Food
"... Lord, feed me with food convenient for me." (Prov: 30:8b) People are choicy, they want the things they want. They may not need a thrill; they may need a pill! A child can't diagnose his need; the wise parent has to feed him. "... Lord feed me with food convenient, (or even better) food which is... Read More
John Follette
Spiritual Laws
I want to help you so that when trouble comes, or when you have difficulties, you will not cast away your faith, but be able to have it stabilized in God, and take of the grace of God, which He has freely given, and does give to tide us along. I want you to have some of these basic Truths in your he... Read More
John Follette
Substance and Evidence
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Heb. 11:1). Faith makes the unseen things for which we hope, certain to the soul. Concerning faith we must always remember three things. These are true in any case when faith is to be exercised. First, the object of ... Read More
John Follette
Suffering
Suffering brings us into the fellowship of the Trinity: 1. Father -- Disciplines us as sons, and we recognize Him as our heavenly Father. Discipline entails or spells suffering, which is necessary and needed; otherwise we are bastards. 2. Son --Jesus, as Son of Man, learned obedience by the things H... Read More
John Follette
Teachers
The reason why Paul taught as earnestly as he did, was because his great field was that of a teacher. He was a missionary -- that was the external manifestation of the work which he did, but underneath all of that, there was the most profound urge and drive in that man as a teacher; absolutely! What... Read More
John Follette
Teaching
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. 22:6) I have learned a lot of things you parents don't know. Your proximity hinders you. Does it say 'tell' a child what he should do, and when he is old, he will not depart from it? It does not say 't... Read More
John Follette
Testing and Proving
I always deal with God. I never deal with the devil. We say: "I defy the devil!" It takes the LORD to rebuke him! He is loose, but God is back of him. I get right behind Jesus; He is my Elder Brother. He will take me through, and He is my glorious High Priest Who intercedes for me. I am conscious of... Read More
John Follette
The Camels Are Coming
The spiritual lesson I wish to bring to you from this story is based upon a dramatic and picturesque incident in the life of Rebekah; namely, her dealing with the camels. Therefore I will not go into detail with the beautiful analogy of spiritual truths we find in this wonderful chapter. The general... Read More
John Follette
The Four Questions of God Part One - Two Questions from the Old Testament
I greet you again this morning in the lovely name of our Lord, and I trust that this may be true, that as we expose our hearts to Him and open to Him, He will find the access that He wants to find. God is seeking us. Sometimes we think we’re seeking God, but God is seeking us. He has been seeking us... Read More
John Follette
The Four Questions of God Part Three - Two Questions from the New Testament
I can’t spare myself for the sake of people in a single thing. Why? Because of people. Peter does not think of that. What is it? And they said, we go also. How many of you get it right away? We will go along with you. He didn’t ask them. You don’t have to, your attitude draws them. Do you get it? Yo... Read More
John Follette
The Four Questions of God Part Two - Two Questions from the New Testament
Now I want to talk about two other questions which are asked, and both of them are asked when the Lord knows exactly all about it, and yet, He goes and asks it. As we found yesterday, there is a reason why He should do that. Not for His benefit; it is not to satisfy His ignorance, but it is to do a ... Read More
John Follette
The Insatiable Desire of the Redeemed
IDENTIFICATION I am a flame born of celestial fire I bear a name, Insatiable Desire. 1 wear in heart an image all divine, Past human art, not traced by mortal line. I hear God call to taste His heavenly powers I give my all to burn life's single kour. So let me burn through letters that would bind; ... Read More
John Follette
The Last Adam
Man was to exercise his power of choice and in so doing reflect the likeness and image of God. He possessed an unfallen human nature as a gift of God in the act of creation. The moral character or likeness and image of God was to come or be made manifest through a process of testings or trials. This... Read More
John Follette
The Power of a Disciplined Spirit
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" 2 Timothy 1:7. There was a manifestation of the life of Christ in the early Church that was powerful enough to move an entire nation. Rome was greatly affected by it, and nations ever since have been affec... Read More
John Follette
The Power of Truth
Presently, we are being made ready for that greater day in which we will be released from the Adamic and moved into our right habitat - that for which we were designed and are now being trained and disciplined. Then the Lord will become all in all and we will see Him as He is. It would be nice if th... Read More
John Follette
The Prayers of the Prodigal
I wish to share with you some of the thoughts suggested by reading once more the story of the prodigal son as told by Luke in the fifteenth chapter of his Gospel. This incident makes rich appeal to almost anybody, good or bad, rich or poor, old or young, experienced or otherwise, purely on the basis... Read More
John Follette
The Process of our Spiritual Growth
We become partakers of the divine nature purely on the basis of a gift. The atonement of Christ on Calvary's cross was God's gift to a lost mankind, that whosoever believes and accepts this gift will enter eternal life. The Lord gives salvation to us, but He cannot give us a Christian character. Thi... Read More
John Follette
The Purpose of Adam's Test
In 1Peter 2:2 we find a very suggestive statement or command, "As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." Some people seem to think it reads, "That ye may be happy thereby," or "That ye may be refreshed." One might be both happy and refreshed in reading the Wor... Read More
John Follette
The Spiritual Purpose and It's Attainment
I like to know what I am doing and why. I must have design or purpose in what I do. This I have in the simplest matters of daily living. Some I know are not constructed so, and life to such is generally a series of accidents or unrelated circumstances; there seems to be no purpose aside from the phy... 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.