September 19, 2025

Can These Dry Bones Live?

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

“In the dream, I was becoming the steward of an 8-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, when I awoke, I immediately knew the interpretation. The 222 was 2 Kings 22, where the story of the 8-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 Hilkiah, 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 this 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, ‘He did right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of his father David’ (2 Kings 22:2). The interesting thing about this is that David was NOT his father. Josiah was thirteen 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 back to the God of their father, David.

“From my dream, I knew that God was telling me to be like Hilkiah, the priest, and connect the next generation of ‘kings’ with God’s history of revival and faithfulness. Days later, I was given an opportunity to preach during Black History Week at New Beginnings Church in Fort Worth, Texas. The pastor, without knowing the details of my dream, asked me to speak on February 22 – yes, 2/22! Moreover, in Scripture, the number “8,” the ages of Josiah when he became king, and the young boy in my dream, represent new beginnings, the name of this church. During the meeting, people were saved, and we had a glorious time. For extras, that very day, 2/22, was the birthday of two kids present, one of them an 8-year-old and the other a 16-year-old! 

“There is a new beginning of kings and priests coming in our day, Josiah’s. God is going to connect them with what He did through the Son of David, Jesus, causing them to discover their destiny and birth the future. Their connection with Him will empower – not only personal – but also national destinies, just as it did with Josiah.”

A Josiah generation is about to arise. They will not all literally be eight-year-olds, of course, but they will be young. God is going to awaken them to who they are, a generation destined by Him to change the world. Thousands of them have been saved in the last week, thousands more will be saved this Sunday afternoon as they watch Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. It is not the memory of Charlie that will save them, but the Savior Charlie served. 

The radical way in which God used Charlie Kirk’s life, and is using his death, is prophetic of what He is about to do throughout the earth: a Josiah generation is about to be used to change the world.

My challenge to all of us today is that Hilkiah’s will be needed. Someone will have to help them find “the book,” for it is there that they will find their purpose and destiny.

Centuries ago, Ezekiel was given a vision of dry bones filling a valley. These skeletons represented the spiritual condition of Israel, apostate and spiritually dead. (see Ezekiel 37:1-10). God asked the prophet a question, “Can these bones live?” The answer came in the form of a demonstration. The prophet was told to prophesy life over them, releasing the breath of life. Through a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the “dry bones” were resurrected and became a great army. 

America has certainly become a nation filled with “dry bones,” millions upon millions who are spiritually dead. Can such a resurrection occur in our nation today? Can’t you just hear the aching heart of a passionate God asking His covenant friends, “Can these dry bones live?”

There are another three or four billion spiritual skeletons scattered throughout the earth: young and old, gay and straight, gangbangers and corporate execs, rich and poor, liberals and conservatives, left and right, and every other segment of society you can mention. They are hungry and thirsty, looking for something to satisfy their misidentified cravings; they’re spiritually dead, but looking for life. 

And yes, they can live!

Pray with me:

Father, let Your passions erupt now in us, that we may declare Your works to future generations. And through our agreement with these generations, bring about a synergy so powerful that it heals and transforms nations. Break false ideologies, humanistic thinking, confusion, and deception off of millions of Josiah’s in every school, college, and university. 

We speak to the dry bones of the earth and declare that death is being broken, and new life is being released! Breath is coming to them, and they will live! An army of Josiahs and Hilkiahs is on the way! Release generational blessings, and cut off curses from millions. We ask that future generations in our families would know Christ, that those yet to be created may praise You. Give them a sense of destiny at an early age, just as eight-year-old Josiah possessed. And give us a history with You to pass on to them.

And we pray for the gathering in Arizona this upcoming Sunday to honor the life and memory of Charlie Kirk. Give words of wisdom and truth to his pastor, Rob McCoy, and others who share. Use their words to bring comfort, strength, and grace to millions. Let the gospel be clear and powerfully anointed – You said the gospel is what releases Your power to bring salvation. Release it this Sunday. Save a million people through this service; awaken many more from spiritual slumber. All of this we ask in Jesus’ name, amen.

Our decree:

We declare that YES, these dry bones will live!

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