It all began, walking through the redwoods, when a friend of mine showed me multiple chem trails in the sky. I knew they contained many dangers for the planet, but I found them beautiful. The sky above me displayed shimmering fans of radiating, iridescent blue and white. The trees’ quavering branches framed their folds. “Stop!” I told myself. “Chem trails are not good for the health of people or the planet!” Then I wondered where, in the Lord, did my power to stop their negative influence stand.
Suddenly, I found myself marching like a soldier, my arms swinging in rhythm to my steps, singing at the top of my lungs,
“Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The kingdom of the Lord has become the kingdom of this earth and He will reign forever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!“
Again and again I sang, or almost shouted, Handel’s Hallelujah chorus. My friend must’ve wondered what I was doing, because each time she showed me another chem trail, I started to sing, with no explanation. I was declaring God‘s glory and His victory over the situation. His great pleasure stormed through me as I marched through the redwoods, declaring His victorious, eternal reign.
The next day, my friend and I were traveling from Pismo Beach through Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, a three and a quarter hour ride. Time was stretching … and stretching… and stretching. LA at rush hour is daunting. Santa Barbara, before that, was stacked. When would we ever get home? Midnight?
Honestly, I don’t like to drive after dark, so the scenario in front of me was not acceptable. I decided to try something similar to what I had done the day before. But this time, i sang the most ridiculous sounding frivolities. I took songs from my childhood and changed the words to move the traffic.
”God doesn’t like big old traffic jams. Bam!
He takes those cars and moves them out like spam.Bam!
Oh see them glide, they’re rolling like jelly in his hands. Bam!“
(To “It Must be Jelly Cause Jam Don’t Shake Like That.”
“God’s a rockin and a rollin, a rockin and a rollin down the road He goes. See how fast He goes.
Well all the traffic’s movin on down the road, it goes. See how fast it goes.
And everywhere God’s breakin up everything slow. Nothing slow, only go.
They’re movin so fast, like lightnin down the road. Down the road. Rockin down the road.”
(To “A Rockin and A Rollin, A Rockin and A Rollin, Barbaran, Ba Ba Ba Ba Baran)
Twelve minute delays lasted a minute. Seven minute and eight minute delays vanished. We were almost home! The sun was about to set. The final delay was supposed to last 23 minutes, but I was only 8 1/2 miles from my friend’s house. I saw an exit. I was in the far left lane, and the exit was on the right side. It was immediate. There were five or six lanes of traffic between me and that exit. Then, the traffic stopped and became a parking lot. All the cars stopped in such a way that I could drive sideways across all the lanes of traffic and exit. I sang about Moses.
“God’s parting the sea to make room for you and me. Yeah!
God’s parting the sea to make room for you and me! Yeah!
He doesn’t want us to be where we shouldn’t be.“
And we arrived home 3 1/2 hours from when we had begun. The sun had just set.
I didn’t focus on the problem. I didn’t get worried or anxious. I didn’t get despondent or dreary. I didn’t even get sad or tired. I focused on the One who is the solution for all of our problems, gave him the glory and had a blast. Then I watched Him blast the traffic away.
The day before, I had wondered how the hallelujah chorus was affecting the chem trails. But that day, I knew the power of nonsense praise songs, in the Lord’s heart, to melt away traffic jams. At one point, I was so high in God’s Spirit, I could no longer sing. All I could do was laugh. Laughter sent the cars sailing, creating clear sailing in the Spirit of the Lord.
The Lord is our strength and our song. He also has become our salvation. When we worship Him in hilarious joy, good things happen. God inhabits the praises of His people, and when we celebrate Him and rejoice in Him, not worrying or wondering about how to solve our problems, abandoning struggle to pray from trust, God moves mountains on our behalf. God wants us to share our concerns with Him. He wants us to bring our pains and struggles before Him, but when we honestly have enough faith to laugh in the face of our problems, just as He laughs in heaven at His enemies, God’s joy over us is boundless. He rejoices, twirls, over us, with singing. (Ps 22, Ps 2, Zeph 3:17, Ps 4:7-8)
This has everything to do with our world today. Shall we find ways to apply victorious joy to the world around us every day? Shall we find ways to celebrate His victorious joy, greater than wine, and give it to the world to drink? Shall we sleep soundly, at night, without any concerns? God sits (at rest) in the heavens and laughs. Shall we join Him in His victorious, peace-filled rest and mirth?
Remember David’s hilarity as he brought the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem? Now, we carry the Ark of the Covenant, including the Mercy Seat, the Law, God’s Presence, inside our hearts. How great can our celebration be? Let’s invite each other into joy, even into hilarity, everyday. Let’s find reasons to celebrate, every day, and reasons to laugh in abandonment, trusting in God’s victory, every day. Let’s keep our eyes, ears, hearts and minds focused on the Glorious One who is coming, whenever the Father chooses, to set everything straight.
Dear LORD,
We are all beset by problems. But help us keep our eyes on You, the Solution to our problems, and help us walk through these days in absolute abandonment to Your Joy and Celebration, Your Love and Peace. Guide us, supernaturally, as only You can do, into Your Absolute and Total Glory, and help us live from Your Throne of Grace. In Yeshua’s Holy Name I pray. Amen
FREEDOM 
Thanks Wendy
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