-by Richard Long
Many of you have read the biography of Rees Howells that was writtten by Norman Grubb. I highly recommend a smaller and recently reprinted book called The Intercession of Rees Howells by Doris Ruscoe. She was the principal of his Bible College, who worked with him for many years. The book not only fills in a lot of the gaps, but also contains notes that she made from his sermons and from his diary.
Here’s a couple of quotes from the section where she writes about the most important lessons that their prayer band learned under Rees Howells.
“Most fundamental of all is the principle that Intercession is based on the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ in his atoning death and resurrection. Where the enemy contests in a situation, and whatever may be the assault upon the intercessor, the victory will ultimately come through faith in the supreme sacrifice and glorious triumph of our Lord.”
It becomes abundantly clear that the path of the intercessor is the way of the Cross, but it is also the way of fellowship with Christ on a very deep level. Calvary was the supreme sacrifice of Love, and fellowship with the Lord in intercession leads to an ever-deepening realization of, and entering into, this Love. Without love, as the apostle Paul states in 1 Cor. 13, “it profiteth nothing”. … As the intercessor is led into deeper paths of intercession, so he experiences more and more fellowship with the one was Love Crucified.”
