Oh Cessy. My intent is not to humiliate you.
Here's a dialog from The Wizard of Oz:
Dorothy: Oh, will you help me? Can you help me?
Glinda: You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the power to go back to Kansas.
Dorothy: I have?
Scarecrow: Then why didn't you tell her before?
Glinda: Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself
It is absolutely true that she had the power all along, but, it is equally true that she had to make a journey before coming to the knowledge, acceptance and belief in the true power she possessed before she could actually use it.