Intercessor extraordinaire

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Intercession

The Call of an Intercessor

The Bible College of Wales

Rees Howells

Rees Howells, Intercessor: purchasing the book

Conversations

Conversation 1: "I was in a train going to a Christian meeting when a voice spoke to me 'when you return, you will be a new man.' 'But I am a new man!' 'No, you are a child.' On the first morning of the Convention the preacher spoke on Ephesians 2:1-6. "You hath he quickened...and hath raised us up...and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." He then asked the question, "Have you been quickened by Christ? Have you been raised up to sit with Him in heavenly places?" In my heart I answered, "Yes, I know I have been quickened, but I have not been raised up with Christ to that place of power". The moment I said that, I saw the Glorified Christ, and the same voice I had heard in the train said to me, "Would you like to sit there with Him? There is a place for you". I saw myself raised up with Him. I knew now what it meant to be "glorified". All that night I was in the presence of God and my glorified Saviour. There is nothing in nature refined enough to describe it."

Conversation 2: "God made it very plain that He would never share my life. I saw the honour He gave me in offering to indwell me, but there were many things very dear to me, and I knew He wouldn't keep one of them. The change He would make was very clear. It meant every bit of my fallen nature was to go to the cross, and he would bring in His own life and His own nature. It was unconditional surrender. From the meeting I went out into a field where I cried my heart out because I had lived in my body for twenty-six years, and could I easily give it up? I intended to do it, but oh, the cost! I wept for days. I lost seven pounds in weight, just because I saw what He was offering me. But I had to give up everything - my love for money, personal ambition, love of food."

Conversation 3: "I spoke at a meeting and was asked to define what I do. I explained that I wasn't what they call a prayer warrior, who would pray for something but would not necessarily expect the answer to come through themselves. It is different for us intercessors. We are responsible to see the prayer through and would never be free until it is. We would go through every length for the prayer to be answered through ourselves. But once a position of intercession has been gained, tested and proved, the intercessor can claim all the blessings."

Conversation 4: "The situation was grim. The Nazis' air force was far greater than ours in numbers. We could hear the planes over the college as we prayed and interceded for our brave pilots. I trusted God for our protection during those times and not a bomb touched us, although all around us they fell. The situation in the country because of air raids may become very serious. We have never walked this way before. The peace that our Saviour gives us is not an artificial one, it is so deep that the devil can't disturb it. On September 8th as I led the mid-day service we could hear Nazi planes overhead, yet I knew they would not touch us. We sang songs of victory. There was no need to pray any more for protection, the Holy Ghost came down on us in that meeting and told us of His victory! We prayed hard for London, which was being heavily bombed and, at all times, I knew we had the victory."