Divine Revelations and Manifestations

By Steven Taga Mapepa

Do you know the greatest mystery of all mysteries and the greatest secret of all secrets that is concealed in all creation that holds all the sacred secrets and mysteries of life? We are all students of life learning lifes sacred secrets and mysteries in a universal class. We have a lot to learn that we do not know yet. The life experience is our greatest teacher who silently speaks to us. Life is an adventure filled with explorations, investigations, and discoveries of new knowledge. It is an odyssey toward the Holy Grail.

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• Release date: May 26, 2018
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Steven Taga Mapepa

An all round multi talented artist at the core, an educator in the field of expressive arts. A music and English Lecturer who taught at Solwezi Teachers College in Africa, in the northwestern province of Zambia. A trained Chaplain at IU North Hospital in Carmel Indiana. A trainer of music and has travelled widely in the USA, training praise-and-worship groups and building Praise and Worship teams. A recording artist and also called "The Teacher " and trained in Christian arts in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, in the republic of South Africa from 1996 to 2001. Pioneer in planting schools in the arts in general and trained at Evelyn Hone College of Arts in Zambia, Lusaka, 19871989. Holds a degree in general studies-liberal Arts from IUPUIUSA, Indiana University. Pioneer in educational reforms and coauthored national educational materials in the study area of expressive arts in Zambia for tertiary institutions nationwide . The author of "The Divine Encounter and "Divine Revelations and Manifestations." A community and national leader at various levels, serving as PAC chairman of NWP with the Zambia National Arts Council and national vice president of the Zambia Association of Musicians, and conflict resolutions mediator and facilitator. Educator, life coach, and preacher. A leader with diverse gifts and talents, serving as ministry and music director with RICC pastoral board in Indiana, USA.

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CONTENTS

Author’s personal views and perspective and foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Preface

1. Stars

2. Burning Gold

3. Pieces Of Human Genital Flesh

4. The Vision Of The Floating Great Golden Throne

5. The Little Golden Man-Shouting And Warning Mhande!

6. A Crown Of Bees- An Extraordinary Real Life Event

7. Faces Of Patriarchs In The Clouds

8. The Rainbow Road

9. The Black Mermaid

10. Falsely Accused And Unjustly Punished

11. The Black Ox-Drowned

12. The Cart-Holes In The Field And Booby Traps

13. The War Planes Flying Like Locusts In the Sky Over Me

14. Sudden Growth Of Long Hair- Extraordinarily Long Dread Locks

15. Dreams Of The Devil’s Strategies In Order To Foil God’s Divine Plan For Our Lives: To Sidetrack, Delay, Derail, Cause Doubt, Depression, Diversion Discouragement, Preoccupation, Oppression, Distraction, Procrastination, And Ultimately Cause Us To Achieve Nothing Of The Greatness God Put In Us

16. Grandfather Dead And Decayed And Rising Fresh From Death

17. Voices From The Outer Spiritual World

18. Luggage Left In A Green Bus

19. Miracle During A Trip To Zimbabwe

20. Troy The Mystery Man

21. Rutendo- Samantha’s Dream

22. The Dream About My Transfiguration By My Younger Brother Named Try

23. My Enrollment And Admission To Evelyn Hone College Of Arts And Commerce And Consequent Posting To Solwezi Teachers’ Training College

24. My Leave And Vacation To South Africa

25. Coming To America

26. The Miracle Of My Wife Joining Me In The USA

27. The Vision Of Endless Multitudes With Me At The Center Surrounded By Tight Security And An Armor Bearer Carrying My Brief Case-By Evangelist Nettiwe Bwalanda

28. I Was Entangled In Cobwebs And Ran For My Life – A Vision By Dr. Joseph Choga

29. Office With Gold Items

30. Military Helicopter Crash

31. Zir’in And Mesh Into Zir’in-Know Yourself

32. Basket Full Of Money

33. Struck Down By A Lightining Bolt

34. Birth Experience

35. Title: Kingdom Expansion With Maximum Impact Through Fighting Opposing Forces

36. Origins Of Excuses

37. Good News About Our Father’s Kingdom- The Lord’s Prayer-Matthew 6:9

38. The Divine Encounter

AUTHOR’S PERSONAL VIEWS AND PERSPECTIVE AND FOREWORD

THE MYSTERY OF ALL MYSTERIES AND DREAM OF ALL DREAMS IS THE REAL- LIFE –EXPERIENCE

God is the greatest mystery of all mysteries. He is the greatest secret of all secrets. He has concealed himself and holds all the hidden sacred secrets and divine knowledge of all the things of life, creation, and existence. Hence, we wonder and ask: Does God still speak to us in this day and age? May I submit to you an assertion that is worthy of your serious consideration? I believe you agree with me that we are all students of life and have a lot to learn that we do not know yet. The life experience is our greatest teacher and does silently speak God’s language. Life is an adventure filled with explorations, investigations, discoveries, and accumulation of knowledge that is expressed through ideas, opinions, facts, theories, philosophies, religions, and truths.

Ideas, opinions, beliefs, and facts do change as new knowledge is discovered, but truth never changes. The truth is ageless and immutable. It is infinitely eternal and sacred. The absolute truth is in the life experience itself. God conveys messages to us individually and collectively which he transmits through the life experience. This truth is worthy noting and knowing.

We need to be constantly alert and pay attention as God speaks to us through our life experiences. Each one of us needs to know God for and by ourselves. This is an individual odyssey towards the Holy Grail. Our knowledge of God should not only be based on what we have been told or heard, read, think or talk about. It must be a deeply intrinsic knowledge that convicts us at the very core of our being. It must be rooted in the actual life experience we live moment by moment and day by day.The Holy Bible says in the book of Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV)²⁹ The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

Before I go much further, first and foremost, let me share the intent of this book. What this book seeks to accomplish is to share my personal testimonies and other stories that I can remember which confirm that God exists. He is alive and does speak to whoever he chooses. We need to pay attention to him speak through our life experiences when we are consciously awake and even in moments of restful deep sleep.

The word re-member is the key word in my stories. It means something totally different and new to me. It means that members or parts of a whole were once put apart, and now, there is a process of putting those parts or pieces together in order to make a whole again. Simply stated, it means: to put parts or members of a whole that were once apart together again; that is what the word re-member means to me. It is the process of bringing members of a whole together again that were once apart. It is to re-collect. It is to collect again. This means that things which were apart and in pieces are now being collected and brought together in order to form a complete whole again.

The life experience is like a play script with a plot in a drama that has episodes and scenes that need to be acted out by selected characters with a role to play. The meaning of the story line can only be understood by making links and joining the parts of the whole story in order to understand the plot and intended meaning of the play.

God is the author and director of the movie of life where you and I are the main characters. We are the heroes of the stories of our own lives. We should follow the script and act out our roles in the drama and movie of life. My personal stories and life experiences prove to me the existence of God and his active participation in my daily life. I hope that my stories will cause you to see the presence of God in your own life.

This life experience is a creative process that we need to be engaged in and follow the guidance of the director who is the creator and originator of the script, plot, characters and movie. Once we follow the directions and wisdom of the director, our movie can be a blockbuster on the universal charts and human history. We are all called and we need to play our stipulated roles in this drama of the life experience. The creator and director of the movie of your and my life needs total cooperation in playing and fulfilling our roles in this life experience play. Fulfilment of the intent of this movie needs to be a collaborative effort and venture between God and us.

I have carefully chosen which epsodes of my life story to write about and presented them as my personal testimonies and stories that have significantly impacted me. These selected stories and events have drastically shaped my life, spiritual perspective, and world view. Do you love to reflect on the events of your past and your life in general that includes having deep insights of the present including predictions and projections of the future? Do you have some significant recollections of your life that have struck your mind and triggered your curiosity to search even more about the mystery of this life experience? If so, this book is for you. Dig deeper into your psyche and find hidden treasures. Analyze the historical, current, and futuristic projections of your life events and experiences in order to find meaning of the journey of your life.

This book was born out of reflections, and recollections of my life experiences and events. It is a spiritual journey worthy revisiting to pick up my scattered broken golden pieces that are needed in order to piece them up together and begin completing the jigsaw puzzle of the ongoing story of my life. It is a spiritual treasure trove worthy of sharing with you. I am sure it will inspire you as much as it has inspired me. I am doing this so that you, too, could be inspired to search into your own life experience and find out for yourself if God ever revealed, manifested, and spoke to you because he still speaks to us even now. Such recollections will provide you with a wealth of hidden treasures wrapped in our valuable life lessons for you and me to learn from. They trigger curiocity and help you and me to develop deeper insights into our own life’s development and progressive growth and maturity towards acquiring knowledge and wisdom as you and I improve on our mistakes, flaws, weaknesses, and failures.

The primary purpose of the series of the stories in this narrative are derived from my day to day, moment by moment real life experiences. This includes visions, and dreams which I have written down here in this book. I have expressed them in the form of personal memoirs as stories of my life history, and couched them in a story line form, and style. This is a kind of my personal autobiography. I have picked some landmark moments that intrigued and thrilled my curiocity in the mystery of my life experience.

I am not able to share everything, but I am only highlighting the salient features of my autobiography. There are also other stories told in this book that are extracted from different individuals and sources other than me. These other sources graciously shared the stories that God revealed to them about me in their visions and dreams.

For any source or individual mentioned or used in this book, I have sought express permission from them and they have graciously granted me permission to use the stories God revealed to them about me. I have also acknowledged them as the sources of my story that directly pertains to the collage, tapestry and mosaic interwoven into the artful canvas piece of the pictorial images of the stories of my life- experience which I have come to call The golden pieces of my life that God has been, and is still piecing up together over time.

All this is intended to share the personal testimonies of my life history showing proof of how God’s secret hand has orchestrated the events of my life and proved his existence and presence to me. I have seen and proved that he has shown me his presence, wisdom, goodness, guidance, direction, power and glory through my life experience and by his divine providence. This goes to provide evidence and further proves his divine qualities of being an omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent God.

The story of my life is not yet over, it still continues with a lot of other events and surprises yet to come before my departure from this earth. I know that I am just a pilgrim just passing through this earthly realm and life. For now, I will just share what I have experienced so far. I have carefully selected and chosen those stories which I consider to be of significance and that can be of benefit to me and others as they read and share my stories and life experiences, visions, and dreams.

I am praying and hoping that my life experiences and personal testimonies will touch and teach someone a valuable lesson and cause them to know God on a personal level, in and through my and their own story and life experience. It is extremely important to know God for yourself with deep convictions born out your own experiences and encounters with him. I desire to reach out and encourage someone to activate and reactivate, kindle and rekindle, juvenate and rejuvenate their waning soul’s passion to pursue the love, knowledge, and understanding of how God works in our ordinary daily lives in order to accomplish his plans for each one of us in this earthly life. We need to seek out and know God for ourselves on a personal and intimate level.

May the stories I am about to share, life experiences, visions, and dreams help to ignite and reignite the fire and flame of your own faith and give you the impetus to fly with your own wings, and glow brightly like a trail blazer light shining in and through this dark world through the process of living and exiting out of this increasingly darkening world. I intend and desire that this piece of writing helps us individually and collectively to acknowledge the goodness and wisdom of God as he uses our positive and negative life stories and experiences as our own testimonies to bring honor and glory to his name, and him alone. I do not intend to share in his glory. All the glory belongs to him and him alone. I pray and hope that my testimonies will help deepen your faith and insight in the mysteriously divine ways that God works in our individual and collective lives.

May you receive divine inspiration and revelation about whom and what God is to you on a very personal and intimate level as you read this book? I give all the glory to God who is worthy and deserves all the praises, thanks, honor, and glory for all the blessings of life, preservation, sustenance and maintenance, protection, keeping me and you safe from harm, and his inexhaustible sources and resources of provision. For only God supplies all our needs that essentially help to keep us alive and cause us to fulfill his divine plan for our lives as we journey on and live our lives in the transition process of passing through this earthly realm.

He creates our testimonies in order for us to share our life experiences with others and encourage each other along the way as we journey on together in our common humanity, pursuits, and destiny. We are all grappling with common human problems and mysteries that we are engulfed in. We continue to encounter, experience, and confront these challenges each new passing day as the stories of our lives unfold and turning into testimonies, histories and legacies. Whatever challenges stand before us, we shall overcome them, and will be counted and stored in the past archives and museums, and stand towering as monuments of our lives. The value of these life stories is that they become a resource for us and others to learn from.

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV) ¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Isaiah 42:8 (ASV) I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.

There is no greater mystery than the mystery of mysteries that is found in the sacred real- life- experience. There is no greater dream than the dream of dreams, or dream within a dream, that is found in the sacred gift of the real- life- experience. Likewise, real life situations, events, experiences, circumstances, and happenings need us to engage more actively so that we may gain deeper understanding and insightful interpretations just like we find meaning in nighttime dreams, and live visions because of their divine revelatory nature.

All these life experiences do contain within them essential messages transmitted to us through a mysteriously supernatural system of communication from the unseen world which is the real source of life. The invisible shall become visible, while the intangible shall become tangible, and likewise, the subjective, shall become objective through the process of progressive revelations and manifestations that we experience in this life on personal basis in our everyday lives.

The air we breathe is a life giving element which is found in nature. It is an unseen essential substance that supports and sustains our continued existence and enables us to remain alive. Consciousness which runs through our senses of flesh is as real and concrete as any faculty of physical sciences. I believe in the mystery and concreteness of the unseen breath of life and consciousness of mind just as much as I believe in the invisible living God. He is the absolute reality beyond realities and truth beyond all truths. God exists and is alive, sound, and well, whether you believe it or not, it won’t change this absolute truth.

The truth of his existence is indisputable, immutable, infinitely true and eternal. It transcends all mysteries and secrets ever acknowledged by our limited human minds. No human intellectual faculties and knowledge can grasp the magnitude and magnificence of the true nature of the living glorious Holy God. Doubt of his existence is not an option because the evidence is overwhelming! Disputing the vastly abundant evidence of his existence is a no brainer and such a question plunges into outright foolishness. David put it candidly in the book of Psalm 14 (KJV) 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.³ They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

I have faith in his mysterious being just as much as I have in mine and all the inexplicable glory and beauty seen in nature and creation that surround us. All these things you and I see and experience in nature are visible and invisible divine revelations and manifestations through which God speaks and communicates messages of proof of his existence by all that we are, is, see, and experience.

Romans 1:2

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

PSALM 19:1-4

The heavens declare the glory of God;

The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

2Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

3They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

4Yet their voiceb goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

ISAIAH 6:3 "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;

the whole earth is full of his glory."

Job 33:14-16 (NIV) ¹⁴ For God does speak—now one way, now another—

though no one perceives it.

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night,

when deep sleep falls on people

as they slumber in their beds,

¹⁶ he may speak in their ears

and terrify them with warnings

Real life events and experiences are sacred things. They are in essence, much greater than any other mystery, dream, or vision ever experienced, fathomed, or imagined by the human mind. Have you ever paused to think a little deeply and asked yourself questions like: What are these powerful living and conscious driving forces behind our lives and existence, nature and all creation in the entire universe? Is there an intelligent and all wise, all present, and all powerful force behind all exisitence?

These mysterious phenomena do exist and happen to us on the level of our live consciousness and they are not fictitious imaginary fantasies, but real. No one, however, fully comprehends their nature or source. So as the old wise saying goes which I was taught in my religious studies at university: A God comprehended is not a God at all.

After all, and in fact, don’t we experience nighttime dreams and visions just because we are alive? Without life we wouldn’t experience anything at all. Would we? We are the very first and closest concrete physical evidence of our own lives and existence. The greatest evidence and mystery of our existence and the life we live is our very selves first. It is through our being, and nature that we interact with and depend on for our physical presence and sustained continuity.

These experiences are by-products of the real-life-experience. They are born out of the sacredness and sanctity of the life we possess and live in the space and time we have on this planet and beyond in the mysteries of the unknown realms of life.

These human life experiences go into the eternity of time of this universe which we do not fully comprehend yet, but do slightly understand through our curious investigations of human forms of education, exploration and discovery; mostly through research, observation, attention, questioning, analysis and synthesis of our cumulative human findings and conclusions as we add to the general corpus of the recorded accounts of human knowledge.

Every human being that has breath and is alive, and is also blessed enough to have a sound state of mind, is definitely wondering, looking and searching for meaning in this life- experience. Real life experiences and events need divine spiritual exploration, investigation and human intellectual interpretation just like we do when we seek interpretations in the mysteries we experience in the nighttime dreams we have when we are asleep.

Nighttime dreams provide us with a wealth of valuabe experiences, story lines, and drama like movies which involve us and others. They give us deep insights and foresight about life events and experiences of our lives. They require wisdom in order for us to give them the proper, correct, and accurate interpretations within the contexts of our lives and experiences of this life we live.

Divine revelations are not only experienced out of the dreams we have while we are fast asleep at night. Indeed, nighttime dreams do fall in the category of divine revelations. Nighttime dreams are, but just one of the pathways to the mysteries of the divine sources of knowledge, messages, and information that are transmitted by God through this sacred divine medium. The real life experience is the main gateway to all mysteries that stand before us and confront us begging, pleading, and seeking to be understood.

Divine revelations are not figments of our own human imaginations or fantasies. They are not even experiences that are just limited to divine prophetic visions we see when we are in a spiritual trance or prophetic mode; but they are also fundamentally the true experiences of accessing, receiving, possessing, processing, and giving interpretation and meaning to the sacred gift of our real lives. They are embodiments of hidden mysterious spiritual treasures of a soundly divine mind operating on a conscious or live level of our human life experiences.

This means that, for us to experience all this, we must be alive and have live consciousness in this earthly realm where we are placed in order for us to experience these mysteries. Occasionally, the real life experience throws us into the fire of the burning furnace of real life’s seemingly harsh and painful realities with all its real life events, and real life experiences, which ultimately create the stories of our lives. The stories of our lives enshrine an eternal imprint of our personal histories and legacies individually and collectively.

Mysteriously, we have no control over the occurrence of the sacred life experience that happens to us without consultation or consent. We did not make a request to be given and receive life, neither were we consulted if we would like to live or not. God does not request for our consent on whether we would like to exist or not, so that we could have prior knowledge of what we are about to sign for and get ourselves into. We do not give our voluntary consent and affirmation. Life is a profoundly mysterious gift and experience of being.

Life just happens to happen to all of us and we just find out and discover that we are alive at a certain point of the process of life and living. We come to realize that we are alive after it has already been done and has already happened. We do not participate in initiating and implementing it. It just happens to happen to us without our prior or fore knowledge of the event that is about to happen to us and what it entails. It is a secret plan that is executed from the invisible world which is the unseen world. We are all just undeserving recipients and beneficiaries of the sacred gift of life.

What I mean is that we have no control on whether we should receive the sacred gift of life or not. It is just given to whoever the divine being, our creator decides to give; whether they like it or not, or whether they know it or not. Our lives and beings are divine revelations and manifestations in the physical and material form transmuted from the spiritual realm.

This physical and material form of existence is transient and perishable. It has a timeframe allocated to it. It has a beginning and an ending which we call our earthly life spans. This life experience has unmatched value and a divine purpose. It is a mysterious living adventure which has a clear vision, mission, assignment, and purpose that is predetermined, preordained, and predestined, by our Maker who knows everything from the beginning to the end.

God knows every fine detail of each one of us. He also knows why he created each one of us. That is the reason why we must walk in his divine will and plan. Everything was done for his glory, majesty, sovereignty, and power. He is in control of everything in existence found in his glorious plan of creation. When we are connected to him, we receive guidance, wisdom and direction through his sacred word, Holy Spirit, life events, dreams, visions, and other people who God chooses to use to communicate a message to us. We are all vessels, conduits, tools, and weapons in the hands of the master who chooses how he would like to use each one of us for his glory.

Therefore, we have some searching to do in order to find this hidden purpose in us. We each have to figure out and accomplish this hidden purpose. We need to fulfill our master’s divine will and purpose that he called us for into this earthly life. Life is a call into existence and has a calling for us to fulfill a divine purpose for God. Hence, dreams, visions, life events, circumstances, and life situations can help us discover our internally embedded purpose wrapped in our DNA inside of our beings that seek revelation and manifestation for the glory of our creator. Our talents, gifts, special abilities, and aptitudes are a great indication of how God expects us to use them for his glory.

Once given, life cannot be reversed or revoked. We continue to live on forever into eternity. Once lived, each individual’s life’s legacy remains as their life’s story and history. That story might be told to posterity and generations to come unknown to us in the mystery of the future and eternity of time whether we live out our life purposes or not. Our individual and collective purposes are a mystery and are only known by the one who gave us life.

Our existence and lives are wrapped in an existential experience that has a blueprint embedded within them, which science calls our DNA. This divine will strives for expression, revelation, and manifestation; and ultimately finds expression that is manifested, lived and fulfilled in our given lives. If we do not find our purpose and work towards fulfilling it, we will have lived a futile and meaningless life. As a matter of fact, we will have disappointed our creator who sent us on this earth so that we could live a fulfilled life and accomplished missions.

However, the key question is: Are all our lives and their purposes being fulfilled in the spans of this life that have been given to each one of us or not? you should always remember that, in order to find your purpose you need to seek it from within yourself. After finding it, it deserves your time, attention, nurturing, developing it with energy, effort, and you remaining focussed for its fulfillment.

Without going through this process of seeking and soul searching, you and I may end up not knowing who we are, and what divine treasures we have within us. There is sacred information stored in our DNA that we need to read and act upon. If we do not read into ourselves it will give chance for others to define us and give us an identity that God did not plan or intend for us once we do not identify and fulfill the calling and assignment of our lives.

The life experience reveals meaning to us through events in our lives that progressively unfold towards our ultimate destinies. Each experience and event in our lives has meaning, and we need to find it. As we interpret the meanings of the progressively unfolding experiences and events in our lives, we will find guidance, wisdom and direction towards the fulfillment of our destinies. Each life experience has a life lesson within it, find its value and add it to your wisdom kit and repertoire for your survival and fulfillment.

Our life experiences of yesterday were cracked open, and we experienced them. We do remember them as our past written in the very depths of our souls and enshrined in the invisible books of our histories and stories of our lives. Today is the gift we have in our hands, and tomorrow is a mystery that is in the hands of the Master, our maker, and giver of our lives.

Some of our dreams are experienced individually, and others collectively during our real life experiences. The life experience in and of itself is a dream within a dream and a mystery within a greater mystery. How many times have you found yourself wondering and asking yourself if you were truly alive or not? Whether you are just dreaming or not, during certain times when you found yourself in an unbelievable situation in this life?

Have you ever found yourself saying: This cannot really be happening to me? Or saying is this really happening to me? or is this just a dream that I will eventually wake up from? but alas, just to find out that it’s true and it’s truly happening to you in your real life as a real life event and not just a dream in your sleep that you will eventually wake up from?

Some negative life experiences are like nightmares that we would wish we were just dreaming in our state of sleep and that we would eventually wake up from them; when we perceive that the event we have found ourselves in is simply too bad to be true; while others are things that happen to us and are equally just too good to be true. The whole phenomenon of life is much more than a dream and will always remain a mystery to all of us.

Just like I have said already, think about circumstances you have found yourself in, in this life and asked yourself if it was just a dream or not. The mysteries of life and dreams are infinitely eternal, and their codes have not yet been fully cracked open for us to see the meaning and fully understand the mysteries wrapped in them. They are too sublime and subtle for us to easily understand and make absolute sense and meaning of. For now, we understand just in part as we walk blindfolded into the unfolding and unknown future.

The present is a mystery in time in our existence or life experience unfolding in time and it is a moment marked with uncertainty. The future stands experientially in the mystery of the forward movement of time, holding secrets no one knows about yet. These existential states remain unknown.

They will probably remain so as unknowable mysteries that will get cracked open from a divine code of the mystery of time and divine eternity when the moment is right. This will be revealed to us as we live moment after moment. This state of affairs leaves us on our toes peeking into the unknown future with so much curiosity, anticipation, uncertainty and expectancy. We desire to know the meaning of life and what it holds in store for us. That is the uncertain human condition we are in. Our future remains under lock and key. It is a secret that only God will reveal and manifest according to his divine will, knowledge, and time.

We keep moving progressively as we go on into the unknown and unknowable future. We basically walk into the future blindfolded, not knowing what will happen to us at any moment. Therefore, we need to walk by faith and not by sight in this life’s journey just as the Holy Bible teaches us in the book of 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) ⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight. And the definition of faith is found in the book of Hebrews 11: 1 11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (KJV) Public Domain

The present is the surest special sacred gift that we have in our possession and is in our hands to use as we choose. The past is the time we have lived and spent and becomes part of our history. And the time ahead of us is our future and destiny which remain as mysteries of tomorrow with their unknown experiences they hold for us which only God knows. Indeed, the greatest gift we have, is our present, the past is gone and cannot be changed but has remained in our treasure store of the lessons that life has taught us. History and destiny are our eternal stories.

The future is an eternal mystery whose end nobody has the right or privilege to know. It is a sacred and divine mystery which remains indefinite, infinite, and eternal. It is the divine prerogative, right, and privilege of God who is the sole source of all that is in existence and he, alone, possesses total control of all that is and is not. He can only reveal those secrets to whoever he chooses including the prophets that can foretell the future when they are operating under the influence of divine inspirations and revelations through the manifestation of the power of the Holy Spirit.

These moments which we live in, keep creating a chain and series of experiential events we live in day in and day out, and time after time. Let’s always bear this truth in our minds that anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any given time or place, according to God’s own choosing and bidding. Such is my understanding of the ongoing and unfolding divine revelations and mysteries of life under the absolute control of His Majesty the King of the universe-God, who is the maker of everything that is in existence. Whatever God allows happening to us whether good or bad, has a divine purpose and has a benefit to us.

We are all travelling on a journey engulfed, enveloped, and wrapped in a much greater and deeper glorious mystery than we can ever know or understand presently. We are travelling on an odyssey of searching for meaning in this life experience. It is a blindfolded-like journey of seeking through the adventures, explorations, and discoveries for the Holy Grail in the mystery of time and eternity; at oftentimes, with unexpected pleasant and unpleasant surprises every now and then at every turn along the winding and twisting road of life.

The paradox of existential experiences is the truth that, they, like night time dreams, are chains of events that take place in the realm of reality and our live conscious lives happening in our present, and connected to our past and future histories and destinies. I keep asking this one same very important question time and time again, that how many times we have found ourselves in situations where we stopped in our tracks and asked:

Am I dreaming or just having some déjà vu experience? Or literally asking: is this really happening to me in my conscious and present life?" If it is a bad experience we begin to wish it was just one of those nightmares we would eventually wake up from, but to our disappointment, we actually come to find out that it is a real life experience and not just a dream or nightmare right?

How could we appreciate order if we didn’t experience disorder? How could we be grateful for blessings we receive if we didn’t see or experience a curse or calamity? How could we be grateful for living in ease if we didn’t experience dis-ease, crisis and struggle? How could we be thankful for safety if we didn’t see or experience harm or tragedy? How could we distinguish between sanity and confusion if we didn’t see or experience confusion or observed insanity?

Let’s have a look at the paradox of some of the examples of negative existential experiences of our real life experiences with their definitions like:

• Chaos: a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.

• Crisis: a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention.

• Calamity: an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

• Tragedy: tragedy is: trajədē an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm, misfortune, mishap, blow, trial, tribulation, affliction, adversity

• trau·ma troumə, ˈ1. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.Physical injury.

Synonyms

injury, damage, wound; More

• Confusion: lack of understanding; uncertainty. And many

• Struggles (found in the real life experience): make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction.

I have come to term these terms or terminologies as the transformative spiritual forces that are imperatively part of our lives and existence. They are ever present in our lives and they are never absent from our existential experiences. They are not mutually exclusive for others, but are universal and all inclusive and do happen to all of us because we all do experience them every once in a while in one way or another at different levels, measures, and intensities. They exert pressure on us in order to cause transformation. They are crucibles and furnaces with hot and high temperatures of tough realities of life.

Just like labor pains in child birth, these transformative pressures of life can be so stressful, painful and frustrating, but they have the potential of birthing and producing great things only if we have the appropriate and correct perspective and response or reaction. In order to benefit from these pressures we need to respond to them appropriately or wisely. They are refining furnaces once they are perceived and understood in the correct context and perspective. They are refining and purifying "Holy Fires." When you listen to the stories of people who have accomplished great things in this life, you will find out that, most of them, if not all of them, went through very difficulty life experiences in order for that greatness to be conceived, developed, birthed and finally come out.

Great opposition, and suffering, coupled with a lot of trials and tribulations have the potential force to thrust us into our divine destinies through the doors of great opportunities and fulfillment of God’s divine plan. Let’s not grow weary and try to avoid the pain and risks that these transformative spiritual forces and Holy Fires bring and come with. They