How This Song Became Nicole C. Mullen’s ‘Statement of Faith’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Christian artist, Nicole C. Mullen, joined the crew from I Am Second to share her testimony and how one of her songs became her “statement of faith.”
Mullen is the granddaughter of Blues singer Bessie Smith and Mullen’s father first cousin was Little Richard, otherwise known as the one who “helped define the early rock ‘n’ roll era of the 1950s with his driving, flamboyant sound.”
She decided to give her life to the Lord when she was just eighteen years old she and all alone in her bedroom.
“It was just me and the God of the universe,” Mullen said in the video. “And that night I bowed my heart. And I gave him my life. And I asked him to forgive me for my sins to come into my life and to use my life to do something good for Him.”
Fast forward, Mullen had just escaped an abusive relationship and vowed to herself that if she were “get into another relationship, that basically I was going to do it my way.”
The next year, Mullen met a man that would take her out to eat and was “kinder than the last one.”
However, “we began to compromise and we began to do things that the Bible says that we shouldn’t do,” Mullen explained. “And before I knew it, I had an unplanned pregnancy. The father of my child and I, we decided to get married and that we were going to raise the child ourselves.”
Mullen’s baby was born and “God gave me grace with her life. But it didn’t fix the behavior that had started in our relationship. And so before I knew it, there were betrayals after betrayals that I would have to forgive.”
Aside from her relationship, Mullen signed a new record deal and began to record an album. One of the songs on her album was called “Redeemer.”
“Redeemer was a song that I started after I was reading the Book of Job,” she said. “I would sit on my bed and I would play my little guitar.
“I would sing the song that God was giving me in the place of great pain,” the Grammy award nominated artist added. “I was finding out things that no wife would ever want to know. It became my alter and the song became my sacrifice of praise that I placed on the altar of my bed.
“It was my statement of faith,” Mullen continued. “It was also my war cry. It was my battle cry. It was me saying that in the midst of all the craziness, I’m going to confess in my night season what I believe is the truth now and will be the truth then.”
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