Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is, Can These Dry Bones Live?

Several years back, the Holy Spirit gave a significant dream to my friend, Pastor Will Ford.

Will shares, quote, in the dream,

I was becoming the steward of an eight-year-old boy

who had a bad family background.

When I asked if he wanted me to take him in,

he said, yes, I had a vision of this related to 222. Unlike other dreams,

Will says when I awoke, I immediately knew the interpretation. The 222 was Second Kings, 22,

where the story of the eight-year-old boy Josiah was 2nd Kings, 22, where the story of the eight-year-old boy Josiah, remember in the dream,

it was an eight-year-old boy, where the story of the eight-year-old king, Josiah takes place.

Josiah also had a bad family background. His father, grandfather, and others before him had been wicked kings.

But Hulchia, the high priest of his day, found the book of the law which contained Israel's history.

Josiah's life was changed as he read the book.

He was touched and moved by God's past faithfulness,

and it appears that when Josiah read about God's history with David and Israel, something inside him came alive.

We're told, the verse says, he did right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of his father, David.

Second Kings, 22, 2, 2, 2.2 22-2. 2-2-2-2.

The interesting thing about this is that David was not his father.

Josiah was 13 generations removed from David.

But in his and God's hearts, the generational connection was still valid.

Revival came to Israel because Josiah removed personal and national idols and turned the nation

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