ch of
envy or temper. What happens? Your cup becomes dirty and it ceases to
overflow. And if we are constantly being defeated in this way, then
our cup is never overflowing.

If we are to know continuous Revival, we must learn the way to keep
our cups clean. It is never God's will that a Revival should cease,
and be known in history as the Revival of this or that year. When
that happens it is due to only one thing--sin, just those little sins
that the devil drops into our cup. But if we will go back to Calvary
and learn afresh the power of the Blood of Jesus to cleanse moment by
moment from the beginnings of sin, then we have learnt the secret of
cups constantly cleansed and constantly overflowing. The moment you
are conscious of that touch of envy, criticism, irritability,
whatever it is--ask Jesus to cover it with His precious Blood and
cleanse it away and you will find the reaction gone, your joy and
peace restored and your cup running over. And the more you trust the
Blood of Jesus in this way, the less will you even have these
reactions. But cleansing is only possible when we have first been
broken before God on the point concerned. Suppose we are irritated by
certain traits in someone. It is not enough just to take our
reactions of irritation to Calvary. We must first be broken, that is,
we must yield to God over the whole question and accept that person
and his ways as His will for us. Then we are able to take our wrong
reaction to Jesus, knowing that His Blood will cleanse away our sin;
and when we have been cleansed from sin, let us not keep mourning
over it, let us not be occupied with ourselves. But let us look up to
our victorious Lord, and praise Him that He is still victorious.

There is one simple but all-inclusive guide the Word of God gives to
regulate our walk with Jesus and to make us to know when sin has come
in. Colossians 3:15 says, "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts."
Everything that disturbs the peace of God in our hearts is sin, no
matter how small it is, and no matter how little like sin it may at
first appear to be. This peace is to "rule" our hearts, or (a more
literal translation) "be the referee" in our hearts. When the referee
blows his whistle at a football match, the game has to stop, a foul
has been committed. When we lose our peace, God's referee in our
hearts has blown his whistle! Let us stop immediately, ask God to
show us what is wrong, put by faith the sin He shows us und