Power the Future with Israel Olaniyan

Long before Wi-Fi signals and skyscrapers, humanity gathered on a plain in Shinar with a singular ambition. They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches the heavens.” It was not evil ambition that doomed them. It was disconnection. They built for themselves, not from communion with God. They failed to understand that progress without alignment, achievement without obedience and visibility without surrender is a death trap. The Tower of Babel was not merely an architectural failure; it was the first global project of self-worship. Humanity was attempting transcendence without submission. A future built quickly, but not rightly. And though the tower collapsed,...

Power without pruning is a hazard to both the carrier and the mission. Let that sink in. That's why God doesn't trust unbroken vessels. He loves them too much to entrust certain levels of power. They will be destroyed by it. I didn't really understand this for a long time. Why would a loving God allow Joseph taste betrayal, endure injustice, and wrestle with long painful silence? Even with such a dream, the favour of God, the blessing of Abraham and the fact that the future was God's will? It was because the kind of power revealed via Joseph's dreams required a broken vessel. A vessel dead to self. Today, most people romanticise the idea of Joseph being a prisoner the night before and P...