By Kayla DeKraker
Shane Everett from the worship duo Shane & Shane knows that God will meet you even in the most unlikely places.
“I was in a bar band in college…[and] I was in a bar in Killeen, Texas, which is about an hour and a half from where we were going to school, and I was waiting to get paid on the end of the stage, and it was very dark in this bar,” he told Sadie Robertson Huff of the moment God changed his life.
“When the lights came on in the bar, the Lord just used that image just in my life to say, ‘This is you, and I’m turning the lights on,’” he recalled.
He explained, “I didn’t hear the audible voice of God, but I felt like He was saying, ‘Son, it’s time to come home.’ I had grown up, I’d gone to camp every year because my grandfather was a deacon at the church…but my family, we didn’t really go to church.”
Everett explained how despite being around church, faith wasn’t real to him until that moment. After his experience with God in the bar, Everett connected with his future bandmate Shane Barnard.
“I ended up the next week singing in the choir at this Baptist church, and Shane and his buddies saw me…So, they came down and they were like, ‘You need a friend?’ I was like, ‘I need a friend.’”
Everett explained how the Lord’s timing in his life has been perfect.
“You know, I think the Lord is so perfect in His timing,” he said. “I think I was really searching to find all of the pleasure I could find in created things, not in the Creator, whether it was a drink or the opposite sex or experiences or fun.”
Everything he ran to left him empty.
“I was just like, I’ve tried it. I’ve tried it all. If this is what it is, it’s so unsatisfying. It’s just it’s just left me wanting more and more,” he said.
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Because he has that perspective, Everett encourages his listeners to turn to Jesus.
“If you’re listening and you felt the Holy Spirit wooing you and you’ve still got one foot in the world and you feel Him wooing you, it’s just like, man, go all in…the Holy Spirit of God can satisfy your heart.”
He added, “We’re going to continue wanting and wanting and wanting, but like it’s not like you can turn that off. You can’t turn the wanting spot off because we have eternity in our hearts,” echoing the biblical truth from Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Today, over 15 years after they first ment. Everett and Barnard bring people to Jesus through their worship music.
“…they’re writing more music than ever, with no intention of slowing down,” their website says. “Their desire has always been to glorify the Lord instead of themselves and they do so by writing music that is biblically based, lyrically rich, and sonically engaging.”
Praise God for how He’s using Everett’s testimony to bring more people to Him.
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