In the last post on this series, we explored key points on the ministerial assignment of Christ on earth. In today's post, I will discuss the benefits of happiness. Happiness is a matter of choice; you can choose to be happy, and you can choose not to be happy. True, some circumstances can make us unhappy, but it is our choice to stay unhappy or become happy. It is our choice to decide our general mood. When you stay unhappy, you do yourself more harm than good. Come with me to the book of Joel.
The vines have become dry, and the fig trees are dried up. The pomegranate trees, the date palm trees, the apple trees— all the trees in the field have died. And the happiness of the people has died, too.
The above scripture uses a metaphor to describe fig trees, pomegranate trees, and apple trees drying up and dying because people's happiness had died. This means our happiness is what will make things around us flourish. Sadness or sorrow will make things around us not work or flourish. For example, if you are doing a business or doing work that you are not happy about, that business won't flourish because you will not do every necessary thing a happy heart will do to make the business flourish.
Let's see another scripture in the Book of Isaiah:
Therefore with joy, you will draw waters from the well of Salvation
The above scripture tells us that joy or happiness has the ability to bring salvation (deliverance). The reason why many people are in bondage today is because they refuse to be happy, and that is why sadness and different forms of calamity never depart from them.
Benefits of Happiness
- Happiness makes you physically healthy
- Happiness boosts your immune system
- Happiness reduces stress
- Happiness boosts your mental health
- Happiness makes you resilient
- Happiness combats disease
- Happiness reduces blood pressure levels
- Happiness increases your life expectancy
- Happy people have a bigger social circle (thus more support).
- Happiness draws people to you and makes them love you
- Happiness increases your productivity
- Happy people have a positive mindset
- Happy people have better relationships and more satisfying marriages.
- Happy people are more successful
- Happiness makes you look younger.
- Happiness ensures you are not overwhelmed with worry or anxiety
- Happiness makes you kinder and more generous
- Happy people affect others positively
- Happy people easily forgive those who hurt them.
As you consider these benefits of happiness, I want you to have a strong determination to always be happy. Child of God, this is your season of AGALLIAO. Agalliao is a Greek word that means “to rejoice exceedingly or to be exceedingly glad.” Choose to be happy and rejoice exceedingly. Don't be overwhelmed by what satan is doing against you right now. Rather, look at the great and marvelous things God is about to do in your life. The Lord is on your side, and He will bring you victory.