Excerpt from The Intercession of Rees Howells
by Doris Ruscoe

A father to the fatherless and a judge of the widow is God in his holy habitation.
-Psalm 68:5

When an intercession has been gained, the Lord will always give a proof. The Saviour was put to death for our sins and raised again for our justification (Romans 4.25). The proof of his victory was that he rose from the dead. When I made intercession for the consumptives and that woman died, he himself was to uphold the position, not I myself. I knew that I had gained it, and if the sacrifice was acceptable to God it was God who was to defend it. One of the first cases I had after the death of the consumptive woman concerned the husband of a woman who had about ten children. Her husband was dying and she was in great distress. I believe I carried as much of a burden as she did and I shed many tears that day. But sympathy does not go very far and the Holy Spirit told me that unless the man recovered I would have to support the widow and her children. I knew that he in me was a father to the fatherless and a comforter to the widow, but the morning I visited the house, while the wife was upstairs, I heard a voice speaking to me, saying, "He is not to die, he is to live." I told this to the woman but she could not take it from me. As I was walking home the Lord said, "You did not speak to her with that certainty you use when you really know." I said, "I never heard anything like this before," and he replied, "You could not have heard it before because it came from beyond death. Tell her again." What victory over death! I knew that death could not take that man, there was no death there. I went back next morning and told the woman, If your husband dies I will support you and your children." I was away for a few days but when I returned I heard that the man was better.

The next case was the wife of a man I had helped financially. She was at the point of death but I knew she would not die. Death was in the room but I was in perfect peace. I said to the husband, "I tell you she will get well and now we are going to have a praise meeting." We prayed together and from then on there was a change and she began to recover. Many times after that I heard that voice I had heard in the house of the dying man, and each time there was victory.

–From The Intercession of Rees Howells