…POSSIBLE

…GOD’S WILL FOR YOU

…ONLY 10% BASED ON CIRCUMSTANCES

…IMPORTANT

…MISUNDERSTOOD

…SOMETHING WE ALL WANT

…HEALTHY

…SOMETHING TO NOT BE ASHAMED OF WANTING

…SOMETHING YOU ARE PURSUING WHETHER YOU ADMIT IT OR NOT

…SOMETHING THAT TRULY COULD BE AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF YOU

HAPPINESS IS SIMPLY ENJOYING THE JOY YOU RECEIVED IN HIS PRESENCE

People misrepresent happiness and misunderstand it and make excuses for not having it. People act like it’s a luxury, a fairy tale, and leave you thinking it’s not possible BUT IT IS! IT REALLY IS! And not only that. It’s God’s will for you to be happy. How do I know this? So many reasons that are both scripturally and scientifically proven.

STOP apologizing for being happy.

STOP acting like you’re not even when you are. Let yourself be.

STOP stinking thinking that it’s out of reach or doesn’t matter.

It matters. Happy people live longer. Happy people are better employees. Happy people are more successful. Happy people are healthier.

Psalm 40:4 says that happy are those who trust in the Lord.

Psalm 16:11 says that in His presence there is fullness of joy.

1 Timothy 6:17 says God wants us to enjoy richly all the things He gives us.

A definition of Happy is:

ENJOYING, being marked by, or showing satisfaction, pleasure, and JOY!

So thi tells me God gave us joy and He expects us to ENJOY OUR JOY aka BE HAPPY!

When I came to know this, it changed everything for me. I have now studied HAPPINESS ( which to me is simply walking in the fullness of JOY like God wants us to do) for 10 YEARS NOW! And so when I hear people sound almost confused or hopeless or even as if happiness isn’t important, it gets me fired up. Because it was so important for me that it literally saved my life and it has many others’ lives, marriages, friendships, and sanity since then.

So if God gave you joy in His presence and tells us He gives us all things for us to enjoy it, that means He wants us to enjoy our joy aka be happy.

Now let’s tackle the myth that says happiness is based on circumstances. Actually, it’s been proven that 50% of our happiness is based on our happiness set point, 40% of our happiness is based on our choices, and ONLY 10% of our happiness is based on CIRCUMSTANCES. The good news is once we are born again, our happiness set point is HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY even if we were not born with a great happiness set point. And once we are born again, our ability to make better choices as we grow in God, increases and hopefully we begin to make choices that very much positively impact our happiness. Ans so then, good news, only 10% from there is based on circumstances which we can certainly overcome as we live out our lives in Christ. Paul said I know how to be abased and to abound and we see how we can live in such a way not to be tossed to and fro but to be steadfast. When we renew our minds with the Word that says, we are troubled on every side but not distressed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed, then even our circumstances won’t effect our happiness because the force of joy rises up in us and we decide to enjoy our joy by faith trusting Him to work it out.

Is that easy? No, nothing worth having is easy. Not even happiness. But is it doable? Yes!!!! A thousand yeses! Don’t cheat yourself of your happiness. Stop living beneath what’s possible when it comes to being happy – enjoying your joy! Stop stopping at having joy and start enjoy it!!!!!

Happy ANYWAY,

Adrienne