Christy Nockels Anchor Lyrics

When Christy Nockels was a child, there was plaque on the wall in her house

Biography

When Christy Nockels was a child, there was plaque on the wall in her house, one of those name-meaning plaques that read: “CHRISTY, follower of Christ.” Psalm 37:4-6. On the back, her mom had written: “If Christy gives her heart to Christ, he will show her where to go.”

She believed those words to be true. So she held up her heart, and God has been giving it dreams and holding it high ever since.

Fast forward to 2005. When Christy and Nathan Nockels—best known as Watermark—made the decision to take their professional duo off the road to spend more time with their young family. It was a matter of necessity and trust; an end to a rewarding season, in pursuit of something unknown but even more important than recording success.

“It was so freeing to clear the table of everything, to go out with a blessing,” Christy says of that decision. “But God began to peel the layers back, to reorganize my mind and my world, so I could begin to see all that he was doing through me.”

It was during this revealing season that Christy became even more convinced of her calling. “My cause in life is to be a songwriter for my generation to proclaim Jesus’ renown,” she says. But what she didn’t know was how to pursue that desire while fulfilling her highest calling. “God stripped a lot away and taught me that He is the desire giver. When I didn’t think I’d ever record again on a label, He showed me, ‘Christy, if you focus on your children and your husband, I will take up your cause.’ ”

In 2008, when talks with Passion’s Louie and Shelley Giglio about signing with sixstepsrecords turned to talks about the new church the Giglios were launching in Atlanta (www.passioncitychurch.com), Christy knew that this was the unexpected turn for which God had been preparing them.

When she told Nathan about the opportunities in Atlanta, there was no hesitation. “We need to put the house up for sale,” was his reply. When their house sold after four days, without so much as a sign in the yard, God put a big exclamation point on their new path. After the move in July of 2008, surrounded by boxes and furniture yet to be assembled—doing ordinary mom things—Christy began recording song ideas into her iPhone. She began dreaming previously unknown melody lines, waking up in the middle of the night to take notes. And the songs just kept coming and coming.

Produced by Nathan Nockels, Light Life Up, Christy’s solo debut on sixstepsrecords, is the powerful, “real-life at worship” result of this season of refocus, desire and confirmation.

“More than ever before, the songs I found myself writing were responses to things going on around us,” Christy says of what would become Light Life Up. “I’d always written songs to sing over people, but these new songs are songs to sing with people, to lead people in worship. It was amazing confirmation, and out of that came a trust that I can still lead my generation and be a mom…”

album: "Life Light Up" (2009)

No Not One

Life Light Up

Choose

Song Of The Beautiful

A Mighty Fortress

In Your Hands

Marvelous Light

Hosanna

By Our Love

album: "Into The Glorious" (2012)

Ever Lifting

For Your Splendor

Wonderful

Into The Glorious

Be Loved

Waiting Here For You

Sing Along

Love Can Build A Bridge

Your Love Is Moving

Healing Is In Your Hands

Already All I Need

How I Love You

live album: "Let It Be Jesus" (2015)

Freedom Song

My Anchor

Everything Is Mine In You

The Wondrous Cross

Let It Be Jesus

Who Can Compare

Jesus, Rock Of Ages

If You Never

Leaning On You, Jesus

Find Me At The Feet Of Jesus

Wonderful Name

other songs:

Breath Of God

Breathe

Carry Your Name

Fairest Lord Jesus

Glorious

Grace Flows Down

His Renown

Holy Roar

Jesus Loves Me

Knees To The Earth

My Delight Is In You

My Master

Praise To The Lord, The Almighty

So Great

The Heart Of Worship

Whole World In His Hands

You Are Able

You Are My King

You Revive Me