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LINCOLN BREWSTER: Before I came to Christ, gosh it was like I made a career out of worrying. You know, I was a young guy, I was 19, but just a lot of worry about a lot of different things. The first scripture that I ever memorized, and I’m going to reference it because I know the scripture but I want to make sure I get it right, it’s in Matthew. The translation that I first memorized, I love the way it read. The disciples were kind of freaking out, and Jesus went to them and He said, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” And that hit me like a freight train, because it made so much sense. I’m kind of a logical thinker, you know, I’m an analytical thinker, and I just went, “No kidding. You’re going to go from A to B, no matter what, and how you behave on that road is everything, and worrying is not going to help. It’s not going to make me live longer, it’s not going to change the outcome. All it’s going to do is contribute to destroying my inside.” So it kind of nipped that in the bud in a lot of ways. So whenever worry tries to creep back up, I just always go, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”

LINCOLN BREWSTER: My wife’s been ill for awhile, for several months, and I heard a song about seven months ago called “Everlasting God,” and a new worship leader that we hired at our church sang this song, and I was just absolutely mowed over by it. That scripture in Isaiah 40 is such a powerful scripture and it speaks some really straight up truths about who God is. And you know, even last night when we were at the [Hillsong] United service and Phil Dooley got up and spoke, and he was talking about sometimes it’s easy to be overwhelmed with facts. You watch the news, you get overwhelmed with facts, and we forget truth. We forget that truth trumps the facts, and that we’ve got a God Truth that we can stand upon.

So as my wife on different days got discouraged about being ill, and having it be kind of a nebulous thing that the doctor’s go, “Well, it’s not going to kill you, but we don’t know what it is,” to be able to look at her and go, “The Lord is the everlasting God, He won’t grow weak or weary, He’s not going to forget about you, He’s not going to lose his strength,” and have to really hang on to that stuff, those are the kind of things that get you through. It’s a nice thing to you as a worship leader, when you’re trying to inspire people to connect with God, to get up and say, “Psalm 100, shout for joy to the Lord all the Earth,” and the people kind of go, “Uh,” and it’s early in the morning. You go, “You’re not shouting for me, this is God’s Word. Shout for joy to the Lord all the Earth,” and challenge people and know that it’s not your own words but you’re dealing with God’s Word.

So there’s such a—I don’t know if you’re into carpentry at all, but a thing called a plumb line that you hang down, it keeps things straight. You know what straight up and down is, and the Bible is that, I think, for our lives. It’s a plumb line. It’s the constant source of reference that you can always go back to, that’s irreplaceable and irrefutable. So I think it is just a confident foundation that you can always go back to. So those are some of the things that God’s been speaking to me lately on and that’s why I love that song so much.