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John Follette (1883 - 1966)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker John Follette in text and pdf format. 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.
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A Correct Perspective for our Spiritual Development
God has satisfied my spiritual hunger in a measure, but I am not perfectly satisfied yet. I am satisfied
that I have found the source of all life and truth, but I recognize that there is much more. There is yet
before us an expansive field of spirit ... read more
A Personal Testimony
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. ... read more
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the divine explosion within the innermost part of man which brings to the surface all things good and evil.
If you don't find an interior revolution which will affect the external, I question your experience of the ba ... read more
Bread & Fishes
The Lord has placed within us the ability to worship as the means to find satisfaction for the deep inner
longing that is resident within each one of us. This worship is to flow out from our inner depths,
upward to the Lord, as we recognize that He ... read more
Bride of Christ
Eve was taken OUT of the body of Adam. Notice that it was not the whole body of Adam which made the bride. So, too, out of the Body of Christ can come His Bride. This also is brought about by a separation -- He calls the overcoming group His Bride. Th ... read more
Choices and Decisions
We are standing here, and we are the sum total of all the choices and decisions we have made in our lives. They have all registered, and this, is the composition of our character. We live in our wills.
We forget, when speaking about heaven, that so ... read more
Christian Character - a Qualification
We have been considering the subject of Christian character from several viewpoints. Let us think of it as qualifying us for Christian living, and trace its importance as suggested by some scriptures I shall read. Let us consider two pictures together ... read more
Christian Character: A Progressive Development
This that I share is truth which I have discovered in the field of spiritual reality. This world of spiritual
reality is abstract and invisible, but it is more real than the material world.
There is a Divine process in which the Lord is far more i ... read more
Church
There has always been a main objective towards which every manifestation of God moves. Each dispensation shows this. Today it is the Body of Christ.
What was the burden of Paul's prayers? It was for the growth and development of believers -- the Bod ... read more
Communion
He is a seeking God --seeking with a broken heart; not getting the response which He should have in the creature. We say our hearts get so hungry, but God's heart is so hungry. When did you give Him anything to satisfy Him? When did you feed Him? The ... read more
Cross
Every man will find his discipline, and every man will find his cross. All Christians are not disciples. When He first introduces the cross, it is to Christians. Jesus Christ never places a cross on anybody. It is in our volitional Power of will to ch ... read more
Deep Calleth Unto Deep
THE CALL OF DEEP UNTO DEEP
Down in the depth of my nature
Where the issues of life are born,
From that unknown mystical realm,
Surviving through ages of storm,
A call is forever rising--
But its language I cannot speak.
It wa ... read more
Detachment
Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body. I thank God for this wonderful Body of His that is
throughout the earth. All direction for this Body is to come from the Head. The Lord does not expect
my hand to be my brain. Rather, He expects my hand ... read more
Direction for Our Lives
When God formed man and breathed life into him, He placed within man an objective for his life. This “objective” is like a prize that is placed before us as a goal to be reached.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this on ... read more
Divine Arrangement
A divine arrangement is a certain method or rule by which God works. Never ask Him to change to accommodate your mind; adapt yourself to His method.
2 Timothy 1:7: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a ... read more
Divine Revelation
Never approach the Lord as you would approach any other literature. The Holy Spirit is needed for its revelation.
Truth cometh by revelation, and that by the Spirit of God; not by our mental processes, but by the Holy Spirit, Who reveals the things o ... read more
Emotions
Sometimes I have a test of faith as I mature in God. He doesn't ask me to understand Him. but He under\-stands me perfectly. I don't always understand Him. but I love Him anyway. Sometimes He is very difficult to understand, and I say. ,Lord. don't lo ... read more
Emptied From Vessel to Vesse
"Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed." (Jer. 48:11).
In th ... read more
End Time
All the fields will be going into distortion -- music, philosophy, literature, everything. The enemy comes in to distort it -- the rhythm ,and beauty are gone. We see it in every field. The standards that maintained, and were good in their own fields, tha ... read more
Faith
When God speaks the Word, it has two definite qualifies. It is authoritative, and it has creative power. The Word is quickened by the Spirit. Faith lays hold of, and wraps itself around that Word. It is our garrison of strength, and security for faith. It ... read more
Fellow With Christ in the Yoke
SINGING PLOWMAN
God's plow struck deep within my heart
And plowed long furrows, one by one,
Through fallow ground so hard and firm,
From early morn till set of sun.
The plow-share was eternal TRUTH
Which tore the hidden roots in ... read more
Fellowship
Sometimes, just the offering of our humanity pleases Him. He loved the disciples' presence, but there was failure on their part on the Mount of Transfiguration. They also failed in the Garden, because of their limited spiritual comprehension. Matthew 26: ... read more
Fellowship in the Cross and Crown
After our Lord Jesus Christ gets the young Christians yoked up and they are rendering beautiful service with the blessing of God upon them, when He has them so close to Him that they can look right into His eyes and they are pulling along together, He ... read more
Fellowship with Christ in the Yoke
Singing Plowman
God’s plow struck deep within my heart
And plowed long furrows, one by one,
Through fallow ground so hard and firm,
From early morn till set of sun.
The plow-share was eternal TRUTH
Which tore the hidden roots in me
And turned ... read more
Flesh
God didn't even want the smell of sweat on the Priests. Anything of the human; the agitation of the flesh; the effort of flesh; He does not want. (Ezek. 44:18)
Do not let the old nature which is still alive, direct traffic -- deny yourself.
The Boo ... read more
Fruition
“But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood
on the shore: but the disciples knew not that
it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them,
Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.”
“And he said unto them, cast the net on the right
side ... read more
General Maxims
If we know HIM, we know enough!
Christ's character is built in us; not given to us. Righteousness is imputed.
Never take the initiative in moving into anything unless you have the Word of God to garrison you. --As soon as the Spirit takes hold of ... read more
Gifts
In Romans 11:29 we read that "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance:" A gift can be operated purely in the flesh or psyche; it depends purely upon who is back of the motivating and directing. -- In I Corinthians, chapters 12-14 we find Pau ... read more
God Moving in Houston in 1997
If God wants to appear in a body, He can, but in essence He is Spirit; not a spirit, but He is Spirit. The article is not in the original at all. He is Spirit. That is why He is present everywhere.
I don't define God: I experience Him. I can have a ... read more
God's Objective
Thou hast always taken the initiative to reach us. In just that simple, and humble way, we come back and say, "Thank You, Lord; continue to draw us that we may run after Thee and find Thee." We are on our way back to Thy wonderful and loving heart, and ... read more
Graduation
It is our attitude toward Truth, and our power to receive that classifies us. Paul mentions three classes of people: natural; spiritual; carnal man. The thing which determines the class to which we belong, is our capacity to understand: our love of Truth; ... read more
Healing
Regarding healing: The miracle in the flesh will perish, but the miracle in the spirit -- to make us into living spirits -- will last through eternal ages. Do you want deliverance or development?
People get these strange ideas that God always fits into ... read more
Holy Spirit
After the fall and ruin, the Holy Spirit still moves as the life principle of God. He now groans throughout all creation, as well as in the heart of the believer, and waits for the day of triumph and consummation. He brooded over the earth in the beginnin ... read more
How to Read the Bible
Trust the Lord to give each one his portion. I thought this morning instead of taking one text, the Lord
didn’t lay that on my heart at all, I felt to read you something in the Word and show you how the Lord
opens up the truth to me. Would that h ... read more
Jesus
We forget we have a victorious Head; He is crowned, and all power is vested in Him in heaven and in earth. We are only cells in the Body. We don't have to worry; just look at the birds, etc.
He is the center of everything; He is the center of the univ ... read more
Kingdom of God
In Luke 17:20-21, where. He speaks of "the kingdom of God" -- this kingdom realm that we live in -- Jesus didn't call it "the kingdom." He called it "the realm' and I like it much better; Many of our translators are using the word "realm" now, an ... read more
Knowing His Will for our Lives
As we daily walk with the Lord, seeking to please Him in all things, His will for our lives will gradually
unfold before us.
"For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure" Phil 2:13.
A man once said that he had total ... read more
Life
Accept life -- God knows all about it. Turn your life over to Him. Let Him show you how to work it out.
If you learn to interpret life, you can accept it.
Regarding high, ecstatic points in life, we can't maintain the emotional stimuli of that high ... read more
Love of God
The first vocation of personality is expression; it is basic. Man is to love; to live; to get out; he is made with potential powers. Out in the world, man has never found the proper avenue through which he can express himself, to really live. -- No Christ ... read more
Love of God
The first vocation of personality is expression; it is basic. Man is to love; to live; to get out; he is made with potential powers. Out in the world, man has never found the proper avenue through which he can express himself, to really live. -- No Christ ... read more
Man
Man was made for God's pleasure and glory. God is seeking the glory which is due His name. He is seeking the pleasure which His loving heart has long sought in humanity. So, He always came in the cool of the evening, and He said to Adam, "Possess the ... read more
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.
Yo ... read more
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 ... read more
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 ... read more
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 tha ... read more
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 ... read more
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 ... read more
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 ... read more
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 do ... read more
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 ... read more
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