Bethel Music has a video sharing the story behind Raise a Hallelujah, the miraculous healing of Jaxon, the son of Bethel’s CEO, Joel Taylor. Jaxon’s illness was the inspiration for “Raise a Hallelujah,” the first song on Bethel’s album, Victory.
The beginning lyrics are:
I raise a hallelujah, in the presence of my enemies
I raise a hallelujah, louder than the unbelief
I raise a hallelujah, my weapon is a melody
I raise a hallelujah, heaven comes to fight for me
The Miraculous Story Behind Raise a Hallelujah
A few days before Christmas in 2017, Joel and Janie Taylor’s two-year-old son became suddenly ill and had to go to the ER. Even though Jaxon initially came home from that visit, his health quickly declined instead of improving, and he ended up being taken via helicopter to an intensive care unit. It turned out that he had hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) due to an E. coli infection and was in a battle for his life. Jaxon’s mom, Janie, says, “I was just flooded with this sense that I might never know my boy growing up to be a man. It might be this week that I lose my son.”
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The next few weeks were emotional ones. While the family thought Jaxon had turned a corner toward recovery shortly after Christmas, the battle for his life continued, with the two-year-old vomiting blood and experiencing kidney failure, seizures, and trouble with his respiratory system.
