Excerpt from The Intercession of Rees Howells
by Doris Ruscoe

 
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. -Romans 6:5

This life is not a death life but a resurrection life. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life," and if you are in him you are in the resurrection. The prayer of the apostle Paul was, "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death" (Phil. 3:10). Suffering is the very thing the ‘old man’ will run away from. "For if we be dead with him we shall also live with him: if we suffer we shall also reign with him" (II Tim. 2:11-12). The way to the throne is always the way of the Cross. The devil only has power on this side of Calvary. The Saviour always had power over him, but he came to conquer him, so that the Saviour through man might ever have the victory over him. The Holy Spirit comes in with all the power of the risen Lord and he in me constantly had victory over the enemy. The Holy Spirit was constantly binding the devil.

–From The Intercession of Rees Howells