09/10/2026
Nigerian Gospel Musician Dunsin Oyekan opens up about how God prepared him for the loss of his wife, saying the Holy Spirit gradually shifted his attention from trying to change the situation to learning to remain in God’s presence.
Oyekan said that before his wife died, he would pray intensely for her and had witnessed people with similar conditions recover.
Because of his understanding of spiritual warfare, he said he initially poured all his energy into trying to make God fulfil His word.
“But at a point I saw the Lord shifting my attention from the problem to ministering to Him, right in the pain and right in the middle of that circumstance,” he said.
He believes that shift was God preparing him for the journey ahead, teaching him to seek His presence rather than becoming consumed by the problem.
Oyekan said that when his wife eventually died, he understood why God had been drawing him into deeper worship.
In the middle of his grief, he found himself unable to properly process what people were saying to him and realized that he needed God's presence to survive the pain.
“I knew from that moment that if I got out of worship, I was going to drown,” he said.
He continued worshipping through his tears, including during his wife's burial, where he carried his guitar and sang despite the pain.
“Do I feel like it was good? No. But I needed to sing. My life depended on the next song,” Oyekan said.
He recalled receiving a call from a bishop who told him three times, “David, don't stop singing, or else you will drown.”
Oyekan said remaining in worship eventually helped him see his loss from a different perspective.
Rather than allowing the pain to consume him, he began to understand the experience through what he believed God was revealing to him.
“God will not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself,” Oyekan said.
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