IT IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS and means yielding your rights... and selfish interests... and may involve confessions, and restitutions. It can be very costly.

FOR THIS REASON, WE ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE BROKEN except at the cross of JESUS. His willingness to be broken for us is the all-compelling motive in our being broken, too. He gave up His rights of being equal to God, and became a servant. He did not retaliate... He loved His enemies and gave selfishlessly. Only the vision of the love that was willing to be broken for us can make us willing to follow His example.

DYING TO SELF IS NOT A THING WE DO once and for all. There may be an initial dying when God first shows our areas of self, but then it will always be a constant daily dying. After a while, it comes to be a part of your life... and it becomes exciting when you see the fruit of your letting go... and letting God. I get excited when I see more of JESUS in me... and less of the self.

DAILY DYING TO SELF MEANS no plans, no time, no money, no pleasure of your own. It will mean a constant yielding to those around us, for our yieldedness to God is measured by our yieldedness to man. You see, the only life that PLEASES GOD and that can be victorious, is His life... never our life, no matter how hard we try. We must co-operate with God by our moral choice. WELL... ARE YOU WILLING?

"I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; AND IT IS NO LONGER I WHO LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME." (Galatians 2:20).

". . . . ALWAYS CARRYING ABOUT IN THE BODY THE DYING OF JESUS, THAT THE LIFE OF JESUS ALSO MAY BE MANIFESTED IN OUR MORTAL FLESH." (2 Corinthians 4:10).

BROKENNESS IS JUST THE BEGINNING of revival. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to OVERFLOWING with the HOLY SPIRIT, and that is victorious living. This filling is completely God's work... it is all of grace. All we have to do is present our empty... broken self and let Him fill and keep us filled.

YOU CAN LOOK AT OUR HEART AS A CUP... which we hold out to JESUS, longing that He might fill it up with the WATER OF LIFE. As He looks into our cup, if it is clean, He fills it to overflowing. He is always passing by so our cup (heart) can always be running over with the river of life (the constant PEACE of God ruling our hearts).

PEOPLE THINK THAT DYING TO SELF makes one miserable, but it is just the opposite. Refusing to die to self makes one miserable. The more we know of death with Him, the more we shall know of His life in us and so the more real peace and joy. His life, too, will be so abundant in us that it will overflow to others... giving us a real concern for the lost and desire to bless others.