Casey Harper, Rep. Tom Emmer, Andrew Bailey, Pastor Jim Garlow, Suzanne Bowdey

All right, welcome back to Washington Watch.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We ran out of time there in that last segment.

But speaking of elections, it's just 13 days away, and the church can't sit this one out.

There's too much at stake.

So I want to challenge you to take the Pray, Vote, Stand pledge, to pray for our nation.

Take that pledge to pray for our nation, to honor God with your vote, and to continue standing for God's word after all the votes are counted, no matter what the outcome might be.

So to take the pledge, you can go to frcaction.org slash pledge or make it easy.

Text the word pledge to 67742.

Pledge to 67742 and I'll send you a link.

Also, same number, 67742.

If you need a voter guide, text vote to 67742 and I will send you a link where you can get a personalized voter guide.

Again, that's vote to 67742.

Our word for today comes from 2 Chronicles 34.

Thus it happened, when the king heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

Here we see Judah's last revival under King Josiah.

What Josiah had done to this point was simply prompted by a desire for God, but he didn't have the word of God.

In fact, the spiritual leaders had lost the word of God.

While cleaning up the neglected temple, they found something, the book of the law.

When the words of the law were read to Josiah, how did he respond? He tore his clothes.

He repented.

And God responded to his humble heart.

The revival that followed brought reformation and broke the cycle of ruinous government and rampant idolatry.

A return to God happens when a searching nation rediscovers the Word of God and then yields to it.

Revival of the Word leads to a reformation of our ways.