{"id":63937,"date":"2023-05-04T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/04\/i-was-born-blind-chidinma-explains-why-she-turned-to-gospel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:38:38","slug":"i-was-born-blind-chidinma-explains-why-she-turned-to-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/04\/i-was-born-blind-chidinma-explains-why-she-turned-to-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"I was born blind &#8211; Chidinma explains why she turned to Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Chidinma-1024x712.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Nigerian musician Chidinma has revealed that she was once blind in the early stages of her life.<\/p>\n<p>The singer in a video on YouTube said that upon her birth her eyes were unable to open, leaving her parents panicking.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that her parents tried every means to get her to heal but to no avail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to resort to God, here is my mum, being a prayer warrior; she just started praying all of a sudden and started fasting from nowhere. My parents were never used to these things but had to because of the situation. And eventually, I started to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"g10CwuWnX5Y\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Story - Chidinma Ekile\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g10CwuWnX5Y?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chidinma said that her mother had informed her that during those trying times, she made a deal with God. \u201cShe had promised to give me back to God, if God could help her solve that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, she believes, played a role in why she was \u2018unable to reach her full capacity\u2019 as a singer without the God factor in her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything that I have tried to do outside of God never really works because of that covenant. Obviously, I am a covenant child and may not have been able to function optimally to my fullest potential outside of God. I feel like God is my source and there is no way I will be able to do anything outside of him, he has to be in the equation,\u201d Chidinma noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian musician Chidinma has revealed that she was once blind in the early stages of her life. The singer in a video on YouTube said that upon her birth her eyes were unable to open, leaving her parents panicking. 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