A week ago, while praying and considering the tower of Babel (Gen. 11), I had the following word come to me:

When they attempted to unite and work together, using all their strengths mightily, God confused their language so it would fail. God caused the splintering, the fracturing, the divisions. God made it so despite their best efforts they could not come to communicate, agree, and be on the same page. Why? They did it, “so that we may make a name for ourselves,” (Gen. 11:4).

In contrast, at Pentecost (Acts 2), God brought about a wonderful unity in languages. To what effect? “We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” (Acts 2:11). This was Holy-Spirit-led unity that exalted God’s name.

Likewise, today, attempts at uniting and working together with others are failing left and right. Why? God is making unity impossible, when the efforts are so that our names be great. When efforts are not exalting God’s name, unity fails–and it should. This is a work of God.

But when we “join together constantly in prayer” (Acts 1:14), and seek God’s name to be exalted, we will see a miraculous Holy-Spirit-led unity the likes of which we could never imagine.