Intercession
The gift of intercession is no longer regarded as solely for the spiritual ‘elite.’ This is not to take away from the responsibility of its recipients though to exercise the gift both diligently and carefully.
Rees Howells was an intercessor whose gifting proved crucial, especially through World War II. He saw the war as “the battle of the ages,” as a struggle between Christianity and the devil.
Certainly millions prayed through these years, but few could match the fervency and divine direction experienced at the Bible College of Wales. Under Rees Howells’ direction the student body held two prayer meetings each day and gathered up to a hundred people at night to pray from 7 pm until midnight without fail through those six years. Sometimes whole days were given over to prayer and fasting. Rees Howells’ unshakeable conviction from the very first day of the war was that God would crush Hitler.
God gave Rees particular direction in praying time and time again. These often became turning points in the conflict, as God changed weather conditions or intervened in other completely unexpected ways. What the College interceded for one day would become front page news the next. This happened so frequently that, had diaries not been carefully kept through the war years, the timing and exactness of God’s direction would have been dismissed as fraudulent.
There are many things here on earth that God will not do unless and until His people pray. Never stop praying.
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