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Golden Grain by John Wright Follette About Golden Grain by John Wright Follette Title: Golden Grain URL: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/follette/golden.html Author(s): Follette, John Wright (1883-1966) Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library CCEL Subjects: All LC Call no: BV4501.2 LC Subjects: Practical theology Practical religion. The Christian life Golden Grain John Wright Follette Table of Contents About This Book. p. ii Title Page. p. 1 Chapter 1. General Maxims. p. 2 Chapter 2. Baptism of the Holy Spirit. p. 5 Chapter 3. The Bride of Christ. p. 7 Chapter 4. Choices and Decisions. p. 9 Chapter 5. The Church. p. 11 Chapter 6. Communion. p. 13 Chapter 7. The Cross. p. 14 Chapter 8. Divine Arrangement. p. 16 Chapter 9. Divine Revelation. p. 20 Chapter 10. Emotions. p. 22 Chapter 11. End Time. p. 23 Chapter 12. Faith. p. 24 Chapter 13. Fellowship. p. 25 Chapter 14. Flesh. p. 27 Chapter 15. Gifts. p. 28 Chapter 16. God. p. 29 Chapter 17. God's Objective. p. 30 Chapter 18. Graduation. p. 33 Chapter 19. Healing. p. 36 Chapter 20. Holy Spirit. p. 38 Chapter 21. Jesus. p. 41 Chapter 22. Kingdom of God. p. 46 Chapter 23. Life. p. 48 Chapter 24. Love of God. p. 52 Chapter 25. Man. p. 53 Chapter 26. Music. p. 56 Chapter 27. New Birth. p. 57 Chapter 28. New Creation. p. 58 Chapter 29. Overcoming. p. 60 Chapter 30. Personal. p. 61 Chapter 31. Prayer. p. 66 Chapter 32. Realm of Spirit. p. 69 Chapter 33. Redemption. p. 71 iii Golden Grain John Wright Follette Chapter 34. Resurrection. p. 73 Chapter 35. Satan. p. 74 Chapter 36. Second Coming. p. 75 Chapter 37. Spiritual Development. p. 76 Chapter 38. Spiritual Food. p. 79 Chapter 39. Spiritual Laws. p. 80 Chapter 40. Spiritual Laws. p. 83 Chapter 41. Teachers. p. 84 Chapter 42. Teaching. p. 85 Chapter 43. Testing and Proving. p. 87 Chapter 44. Truth. p. 90 Chapter 45. Types. p. 94 Chapter 46. Vision. p. 95 Chapter 47. Will of God. p. 96 Chapter 48. Word. p. 98 Chapter 49. Worship. p. 100 Chapter 50. Miscellaneous. p. 101 Indexes. p. 105 Index of Scripture References. p. 105 iv Golden Grain John Wright Follette GOLDEN GRAIN by John Wright Follette Golden Grain John Wright Follette Chapter 1 - 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.ÐAs soon as the Spirit takes hold of that Word, He makes it a throbbing reality. The motto of Jesus' life: ªI have come to do Thy will, O God.º Some leave the great essentials, and involve themselves with doctrinal issues. Don't crowd God into two thousand years. We were not made for the here and now; we were made for the heart of God. The spiritual, mental and physical should all have their source in the Christ. It is not a reformation, but a total deliverance when He comes. When we move in the will of God, it answers about a thousand prayers. There is such a difference between being religious and being spiritual. Always watch out that you have not too many possessions. If you are not careful, those possessions will possess you! Don't develop a devil consciousness; develop a God consciousness. Too many are conscious of their limitations. Count HIM in! Remember what He did with five loaves and two fishes. We should give to God our very bestÐand all that we have. We can be just as holy, just as devoted to Jesus as we want to be; and we can walk just as near to Him as we want to. We can let the hour of our visitation slip right away from us. AwarenessÐwe have to be aware. The highest vocation of any spiritual manifestation is worship and adoration; not service. The whole issue between broken humanity and God is a question of life and death; not heaven and hell. Lord, keep me alive until I die. Humility is something which is birthed within, and, if we think we have it; we haven't! 2 Golden Grain John Wright Follette In the realm of the Spirit, there is no distinction between secular and holy. Everything in God's sight, in this new life, is holy. We learn the laws of living in the realm of spiritual reality by living. ªI don't want your gifts, your services, what you are doing; I want your HEART.º He has so many who serve Him, but so few who love Him! Everybody wants the fruitage; nobody wants the death that causes the fruitage. When He gives a word, it is creative, and has a measure of faith every time. Miracles are for beginners, but, for disciples, He expounds all things. Miracles appeal to the cosmic curiosity of the flesh. Don't commercialize them. Have spiritual adjustment in God. ªRejoice not in miracles, but that your name is written in heaven.º Many have the Christ, but they have not discovered the hidden treasures in Him. (Colossians 2:3) Never ªWhyº God: Worship Him! Truth is never ours until it is personalized in our lives. It is good to have a disappointment once in a while. It will throw us into God like nothing else will. He is always and forever the same, but He is seeking to change us. You and I are basically made for His pleasure. Don't read traditionally, or perfunctorily, because you think you have to read! Just to please the heart of God one day at a time is wonderful. Don't let your life pattern project so far ahead that it swallows up the importance of the moment. I like what I call an overall pattern and perspective in my thinking. My ministry is only a means unto the end; it is not the end. The instrument is always of greater value than what the instrument can do. No experience, in itself, ever matures us. The more we see and know Him: The more we love Him. Anybody can stand a blessing, but few people can take a defeat, a disappointment. Here (on earth) is the place of decision. Then (in heaven) is the place of expression. 3 Golden Grain John Wright Follette I am saved; I am being saved; I am yet to be saved. Jesus: ªI made the testing; also a way of escape.º Everybody has enough entertainment Ðthey need instruction! God has all eternal ages to work out the problems that we can't work out here. Every heart has its own discipline, its own cross, and its own dealings with God. ªBe still and know that I am God.º ÐDon't clatter so much! My motto: Keep in the middle of the road. We learn to pray by praying. In a consecrated life, there are no accidents. The martyrs in the arena in Rome had an inner life element: They had agape love. Some can't face a lion, because they cannot face themselves for five minutes! The devil will tempt us with the identical setup God uses to test us. Temptation is always unto defeat and death. Testing is always unto strength and life. A walk in the Spirit is not a gift; it is an attainment. 4 Golden Grain John Wright Follette Chapter 2 - 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 baptism of the Holy Spirit. 1. The Holy Spirit is always the dynamic, the power for any of the things God will do. It was the Holy Spirit working in the Old Testament in every sign and miracle. God is causation; Jesus executes the will; the Holy Spirit accomplishes the work. 2. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is the dynamic by which the mystical Body of Christ can be formed, and the emphasis of God today, dispensationally, is that of getting His Body ready, shaped up, filled with life, vision, hope, so that He can take her home. That is His great program! It is time people got acquainted with the objective for which this marvelous, unheard of outpouring was sent! God's first thought is not what we can do, but what we can become. Works are subservient to what we become. Jesus said He would call us out; He would train us; give us discipline; He would give us all that was needed in the way of separation, and light, and illumination, and, most of all, the terrible training which was necessary to conform us into the image and likeness of HimselfÐthe Bridegroom, because we would be the Bride. The Bride must have some features like unto the Bridegroom. He will begin to restore, reshape, repattern, and redesign in usÐin this Body with the features that are becoming here, so that some day we may be taken out of this earth, and united with Him, and projected into the things of the eternal ages. For in Ephesians it says that through the Church, He will show His glory and grace in ages to come. This is the instrument. So He says, ªYe shall be unto Me My witness in the world.º The power of the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and immerse you into what He is, and Who He is, and YOU will BECOME identified with Him.