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The Good News for the World, Power for Service, Samuel Rees Howells
We know that we can’t take one step further without the help and aid of God. If we didn’t recognise our need, we wouldn’t be dependent on the Holy Spirit. We’ve been called to live a life that is impossible to do of ourselves. It is only the Holy Spirit who can do it. It’s all right to say this, but it’s another to do it!
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The Korean War, Intercession & Revival
God is opening up the world. He has men in all the countries. I have told the Lord that I will go to Korea. I am exercised about it. There are things I have to finish here now. If someone could go, tens of thousands could be reached with the Gospel.
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Revivals in Africa, 10,000 Souls for Christ
A prayer that changed a family's destiny. August 1912, the month of Samuel Howells' birth, saw his parents, Rees and Lizzie, petitioning for African missionaries. Then, a Divine intervention: "I will send you." This unexpected answer thrust them into a profound dilemma. Their infant son, Samuel, could not survive the African climate, making this commission a test of their faith and obedience.
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China 1930s to 1990s – Mission Advance Persecution & Revival
Rees Howells had led the staff and students of the Bible College of Wales in prayer for China on many occasions. In 1936, he sold land and gave it to evangelise one thousand villages in China. Meanwhile, after World War II (1939-1945), whilst the West was occupied with threats from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a small group of revolutionaries swept themselves into power in China, as Satan sought to capture the souls of one-fifth of humanity!
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Rees Howells’ & Samuel’s School of Faith, The Bible College of Wales
Ever since God had met with Rees Howells on Boxing Day morning of 1934 and placed a special responsibility upon him to see the fulfilment of the Great Commission, there was a deep desire in him to see new countries reached with the Gospel.
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Rees Howells: Worship as Warfare and Prophetic Declarations of Praise in the Heavenlies – The Legacy of Vision Hymns
Rees Howells embraced worship as warfare and participated in it daily. The Holy Spirit taught him the power of prophetic declarations. As a unique powerhouse of faith, intercession and prophetic praise, Rees Howells and his intercessors composed and compiled a selection of songs, hymns, declarations and poems.
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Rees Howells’ Intercession Victory – Israel is Safe, the 80th Anniversary of World War Two Intercessions: Holy Land, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Persia
Eighty years ago, on 15 November 1942, after months of intercession, Rees Howells declared, “The Bible Lands are safe!”
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The Dictator’s Lies of Peace
Rees Howells - because of the prediction of “the downfall of Hitler and the Nazi regime,” the College was bound to stand with the Prime Minister in stating that the war must be continued “until Hitlerism is overthrown.”
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God Will Deliver us from the Dictators by Rees Howells, 1939
‘Is the day coming when our country will have to look to God and to Him alone, to deliver us from this black spectre of Hitlerism?’ wrote Rees Howells in late 1939. ‘Will God have to step in as He did in Biblical times to deliver our nation, because we are fighting solely for freedom and religious liberty?
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Dictators Defeated and Gospel Advance
Rees Howells lived for the fulfilment of Jesus’ Great Commission, the Gospel to Every Creature, and he believed that Hitler (Nazism) and Mussolini (Fascism), the dictators of Germany and Italy, would have to be defeated for the peaceful work of world evangelisation to continue.