In October 1992 Paul Cain and I had held the first Word and Spirit conference at Wembley. Graham Kendrick wrote a hymn for us, “Jesus, Restore to Us Again,” which demonstrated the need for the word and the Spirit to come together. I preached a sermon that amounted to a prophetic statement: as Abraham sincerely believed that Ishmael was the promised child, so have many assumed that the charismatic renewal was the revival the Church had been praying for. Wrong, I said. Isaac is coming.
