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Britt Nicole: Not Seen and Now Heard

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CBN.com Recording artist, Britt Nicole says she almost gave up on love and life after her parent’s painful divorce.

Britt Nicole’s parents divorced when she was seven-years-old.

"During that time of going through that divorce, I remember just feeling an emptiness in my heart and feeling like, 'Man, my mom can’t fill this void, and my dad isn’t going to be able to fill it…something is missing.' I would watch my parents argue and fight, and I was afraid. Then there were times where I felt really alone. It was a situation that they were going through, where I felt like I couldn’t really go to them."

Britt continues, "I got saved when I was seven-years-old, the same time I was watching my parents go through this divorce. I just remember this man preaching, and my heart pounding in my chest. He gave the alter call. He said, 'If anyone wants to come down and receive Jesus as your Savior, you can come down now.' I needed to just cry, I needed to just lay it all down before His feet. And say, God take it."

"I was experiencing His love in that moment, and He was saying, 'I am your Savior, and I am your Father, and even if your mom is not there for you, your mom, your brother, whoever… I will never leave you, I will never forsake you," she remembers.

Britt experienced the love of God that night, but people continued to disappoint her.

"As I grew older and was dealing with the divorce, I had a lot of emotions. I felt confused. I didn’t know that I had given up on God. But I was questioning and asking God, 'Why would You allow this to happen to me and my family? Why would You let me hurt so bad, and how can this hurt, how can this bring forth anything good in my life?' "

She began to look for love in relationships with guys and dating people who weren’t godly men.

"It wasn’t God’s will for me to be with them, and it was just that I was needy. I needed someone to wrap their arms around me and say, 'It’s going to be okay, I love you.' I thought at the time it was really helping me get through, but in the end it ended up breaking my heart," she adds.

Britt says that when she was a teenager, God began to heal her fears and insecurities—through music. Her dream growing up was to be a recording artist, and her dream became reality.

"I really heard God speak in a clear way, where I was like, 'Wow, that was God. He is speaking to my heart right now.' He [God] said, 'Britt, you have given me part of your heart, but you haven’t surrendered everything.' I just remember crying and trying to raise my hands, and driving down the road and raising my hands at the same time.' "

"I said, 'God my life is yours, whatever you want God. I will do your will. And He said to me, 'Every dream that is in your heart, I will bring to pass.' "

Britt’s breakout album, "Say It," rocketed onto the Christian music scene in 2007. Chart- topping singles and CD sales confirmed that she’s speaking to a generation, hungry for her message.

"My mission statement as an artist is to bring healing and restoration to broken people, to a broken generation. I feel like God has given me the freedom to speak and not to be afraid. I am to be bold and say, 'Here are some answers.' "

"God is bigger than this. You can find love, intimacy, compassion, grace, and peace in the arms of God," she says.

Britt’s lyrics resonate with the generation known as the “children of divorce."

"We all walk through valleys, trials, and circumstances. But the goodness of God is overwhelming, and there is nothing that can separate us from His love," she believes.

"God healed my heart mainly in just finding intimacy with Him first. I think that God wants us to love Him first. His love can set you free. His love conquers all. It conquers bitterness, it conquers anger, it conquers fear. He just asks us to trust Him, and He will reveal truth to us, and that is what He did for me."

 

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