We all desire to be happy in our day to day lives, which we know can only truly come from our Lord Jesus Christ. But sometimes, we let the devil beat us down and get us discouraged, and God is always right there to pick us back up. Be sure to read the sweet testimony below of how this sister was inspired to write the song, "Be Happy."
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Be Happy:
With this testimony I would like to share something that happened to me a little over 2 years ago. At that time I was expecting my first baby. We were so happy and excited for a baby to come. Everything went well and I was feeling good.
Due to some circumstances, half of my pregnancy passed before I went for my first Dr. visit. After one or two visits, I was due for a lab-test for checking the sugar-levels in my blood and I went in to have this done. The results came back slightly too high.
This meant I had to go in for another test. I didn’t expect this and started feeling uncertain about everything I ate and drank. I did my best to stay as healthy as I possibly could for my baby, but I could not recall whether I ate completely like I should have. My inspiration of what to eat was pretty low, and being so tired, the uncertainty started nagging on me. I didn’t know what to do but to pray… I knew that it was just the devil trying to take away the joy and excitement of the baby to come, but the Lord wasn’t going to let him beat me down.
After praying a great hunger for more of the Lords precious Word came over me. Little did I know that he had such a neat blessing in store, to tell me I shouldn’t worry about anything!
The first thing that happened was one of the evenings after the first test. I was so tired from the day and was too tired to read my Bible anymore (I thought). Something kept pounding that I should open my Bible, even if I would just read one verse, so I did. My Bible opened up to Matthew 6:25 (I didn’t have a bookmark there or nothing) which reads as following:
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
I don’t think this scripture justifies unhealthy eating, of too much sweets or such, but it was just what I needed to encourage me. I was not knowing what the other test results would turn out like, but I was so happy I opened up my Bible!
I went in for the next test and coming back home the following testimony had been posted on Branham.org called The Tapes. I just loved the quotes in it! These quotes where speaking straight to my heart, I knew this must be the Lord speaking to me a second time. Especially this quote touched me:
God don't want you to be frowning. God wants you to be happy. The human heart was made to be happy Worry will cause cancer. Temper will cause cancer. Don't never be upset. Just walk in His love. Amen. Knowing that you're walking in Him, and nothing can harm you. There's nothing can harm you. There's neither powers, things present, things future, nothing can separate us from Him. We're in Him. 56-0405 The Resurrection Of Jesus
I was so encouraged by the quotes, it made me feel so happy again. I wanted to remember these quotes and I must admit that I am not so good at memorizing scriptures or quotes, so I printed all the quotes out and put them on my piano. Little did I know that the Lord knew how to get me to remember what he told me through this quote.
A couple days later I turned on a random tape and all a sudden an indescribable happiness came over me as the sweet Holy Spirit moved into the room while I was listening to the tape. I felt like worshipping the Lord and went to play the piano. My eyes then caught the quotes I had put earlier that week on the piano and then there was the melody… and the song “Be Happy”.
It was so neat to see that the Lord gave me a way to not forget what He wanted to teach me through this trial and to show that He still cared. The next test results were slightly higher again, but the midwife told me to just stay eating healthy and check my sugar levels at home. These all turned out to be good and the Lord blessed us with a normal delivery and a very healthy sweet baby boy.
The song has been an encouragement to me in a lot of situations and I pray it might be an encouragement and blessing to someone else also.
May the Lord richly bless you
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. II Corithians 12:9-10