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How can i believe what i have not seen.

How Can I Believe What I Have Not Seen?

As humans, we trust what we can see, feel, and touch. Our senses are our first teachers. Because of this, faith often looks like a risk like stepping into the unknown with no proof. But true faith is not blind gambling. Faith is a practical certainty born from knowing.

Faith becomes risky only when knowledge is shallow. When a person is grounded in the knowledge of Olódùmarè, faith stops being a leap and becomes alignment. Meditation on divine truth is not empty repetition; it is a visit with God, a meeting point between the seen and the unseen.

Healing does not come from men. People are only vessels. Power does not belong to the instrument; it belongs to the Source. When healing happens, it is Olódùmarè acting through willing matter.

Trust must rest in God alone. Olúgbàlà did not begin in time and will not end in time. He is a channel of divine wisdom, not a replacement for the Source. Faith in God flows through Olúgbàlà as understanding, not as dependency on a name.

When God gives faith, He does not leave it empty. Faith always comes with evidence not always visible to outsiders, but deeply convincing to the one who carries it. Absolute peace after prayer is evidence. Rest without anxiety is evidence. Moving without fear is evidence.

When faith is genuine, the mind stops monitoring outcomes. You are no longer obsessed with what God is doing because you trust that He is doing something. That is surrender.

The Ẹ̀mí intercedes in ways words cannot form. There are moments when prayer becomes silence, and silence becomes prayer. At that level, it is no longer about saying the right things, but about being rightly positioned.

Acts of faith are not loud declarations. They are acts of surrender. To be under the influence of God is to allow divine will to shape your choices, your timing, and your responses.

We believe many things we cannot see. Love cannot be touched. Peace cannot be measured. Yet we know them by experience. In the same way, belief in God grows from encounter, not argument. Some meet Him in stillness. Some in hardship. Some in beauty. Some in inner conviction.

Belief is personal. It is shaped by experience, culture, memory, and truth-seeking. There is no single path only sincerity.

Faith is not denial of reality.

Faith is recognition of a deeper one.

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