many times over. His willingness
to admit his need and be blessed will determine the degree to which
God can bless the people to whom he ministers. Above all he must
realise that he must be the first to humble himself at the Cross. If
a new honesty with regard to sin is needed among his people, he must
realise it must begin with himself. It was when the King of Nineveh
arose from his throne and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in
ashes as a sign of his repentance, that his people repented.

Let not, however, those readers who are not leaders be tempted to
look at those who are and wait for them. God wants to begin with each
one of us. He wants to begin with YOU.

May God bless us all.

Roy HESSION.
January, 1950.

CHAPTER I
BROKENNESS

We want to be very simple in this matter of Revival. Revival is just
the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts. Jesus is always
victorious. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His
victory. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He
is never defeated. His power is boundless. And we, on our part, have
only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His
power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His
victorious life will fill us and overflow through us to others. And
that is Revival in its essence.

If, however, we are to come into this right relationship with Him,
the first thing we must learn is that our wills must be broken to His
will. To be broken is the beginning of Revival. It is painful, it is
humiliating, but it is the only way. It is being "Not I, but
Christ,"[footnote1:Gal. 2: 20.] and a "C" is a bent "I." The Lord
Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the
proud self within us is broken. This simply means that the hard
unyielding self, which justifies itself, wants its own way, stands up
for its rights, and seeks its own glory, at last bows its head to
God's will, admits its wrong, gives up its own way to Jesus,
surrenders its rights and discards its own glory--that the Lord Jesus
might have all and be all. In other words it is dying to self and
self-attitudes.

And as we look honestly at our Christian lives, we can see how much
of this self there is in each of us. It is so often self who tries to
live the Christian life (the mere fact that we use the word "try"
indicates that it is self who has the responsibility). It is self,
too, who is often do