Christy Nockels from Tuesday night

Okay, I SWEAR this is my last post for today!! :)

I just really felt led to share a little bit of what Christy Nockels shared at our concert thing she did here at Second on Tuesday night....First of all, she is completely REAL, and GENUINE.... she was just very transparent about who she is and where the Lord has taken her and where she is in her walk with the Lord. So inspirational...she's one of those people who you would look at and assume she has things all together. But she got up there and sang of course, which was AMAZING, but she also just shared straight from her heart and let me just tell you it spoke right to my heart & where I am with the Lord right now. Here are some notes I jotted down from her....

1.) As women, look to God to fill those "God needs" in our hearts that only He can fill. Quit looking at our husbands, our kids, etc etc to fill those deepest needs in our hearts, that as a woman, only our Creator can make whole!

- She referred to the lyrics from Plumb, "There's a God shaped hole"

Chorus:

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And the restless soul is searching

There's a God-shaped hole in all of us

And it's a void only He can fill

2.) Be open to receive your Validation only from Him. Psalm 139

- "God may be withholding validation that you seek from certain people, because He knows if we didn't go to Him for it, we would think of it to be enough from someone else... but it isn't."

3.) Maintain a Grateful heart. Quit criticizing the way God made me or didn't make me, it's being critical of His creation when I do. I don't have to have all the same gifts, talents, abilities as some other girl or look like a certain person does....I am ME! And I am who He created me to be - refer back to Psalm 139:14!

4.) Having an attitude of bowing before Him. Completely committing my heart & life to Him on a DAILY basis so I am everything I need to be for Him, for my husband, and my children.

A quote she used, "A mother's heart is her children's classroom." It's the things that are unsaid that are doing a lot of the "teaching".

Psalm 37:4-6

4 "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. 5 Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. 6 He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun."

A revelation she had about this verse in Psalm 37:4, if we delight ourselves completely in the Lord this verse doesn't say that He will give us whatever it is that we WANT, but that when we are content in Him alone and delight in Him, that His desires for our life will BECOME our hearts desires, which is the only perfect way. "Be rooted in Me, Abide in Me, & focus on your "bullseye" (which is your relationship with God, your husband, your family, & the local community "church" you belong to), then He will take care of all the rest and give us our "hearts desires".

I was simply reminded to focus on the precious calling of motherhood, which is the season of life that I am in right now. And there is no better place that I'd rather be. I want to be ALL He wants me to be & created me to be, so that I can be ALL that my family needs me to be!

She read a book to close called "Let me hold you longer" by Karen Kingsbury which was absolutely precious.... A must read for ALL moms out there!! (Get your Kleenex ready!!)

I came home and told Brian just how blessed I feel to be where I am right now...with our church, the bible study I am going currently going through, the people he is bringing into my life, and what HE is teaching me every day about who HE wants me to become!! I'm just in awe at the fact that HE wants to use little old me!!