Excerpt from The Intercession of Rees Howells
by Doris Ruscoe

If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.--John 15:7

After the man in the tin mill I had many converts, but there was a woman in the village I could not reach personally, and the Holy Spirit asked me, "Is it really necessary for you to come in touch with people in order to reach them? I want you to reach this woman by way of the throne, and to see that she is in the kingdom by Christmas Day." To draw a soul into the kingdom without getting in touch with her was quite new to me. Could 1 bind the devil and take a soul out of his hands? She was said to be the worst woman in the village, really in his power. The Holy Spirit said, if you will allow me to bring you to a place of abiding, night after night, you can put this soul through on Christmas Day." I used to go before him every night, with the Word, and I was not to go before him the next night until I had done what he told me. Everything in me that was not in accordance with his nature was to be taken out of me. Everything short of giving my life was tested, and he stripped me of things 1 never knew were in me, until I lived for one thing, the soul of this woman. In six weeks I had the witness that the victory was won, and then she an to come to the open-air meetings. I thought, "Will she hold out until Christmas Day?" I was watching myself. Could there be a doubt if the was no weakness in the abiding? God will never break a law to put you through. That is the abiding–taking all the unbelief out of you and binding the devil. On Christmas evening she was there in the meeting and down she went on her knees before the Cross. I told the devil, "You are conquered."

–From The Intercession of Rees Howells