Rees Howells spoke all the time. One time while speaking a guy named Lord Radstock was in the audience. He flipped out over the common lessons that God had taught them both.
"He told them what he had proved in his experience of the difference between a prayer warrior and an intercessor... A prayer warrior can pray for a thing to be done without necessarily being willing for the answer to come through himself; and he is not even bound to continue in the prayer until it is answered. But an intercessor is responsible to gain his objective, and he can never be free till he has gained it. He will go to any lengths for the prayer to be answered through himself."
As I've mentioned before in previous blogs, I believe I came (back) to the Lord* through the result of an intercessor. This guy (Greg Taylor) was praying and fasting for me and weeping over the condition of my soul in prayer, willing to go to any means to see me (back) in the kingdom.
* my story is a "prodigal son" story, so that's why I refer to it as "coming back" to the Lord, because I had really had a conversion experience at an earlier age (11), going off on a "prodigal journey" for nine years before returning back to His kingdom.
But wow...what a tall order. I think I'd much rather be a "prayer warrior" than suffer the work of an "intercessor." But it would be darn cool to be an intercessor, too. With this kind of price to pay, it'll be a serious commitment to partake in. If I could return the "favor," though and pray someone else into the kingdom, that would be very, very rich.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at May 30, 2006 08:27 AM