Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.
Tap here for a video meditation on Psalm 113.
Psalms 113 to 118 form a group called the Hallel songs, taken from the Hebrew word for “praise.” Wednesdays in the middle weeks of the Pentecost season this year find us lifting our voices in these special songs that were sung in homes at Passover time. They all contain Alleluia, the Hebrew word that means “Praise Yah.” Yah is the shortened form for the covenant name Yahweh.
Alleluia: this unique word of joy and praise only occurs in the Psalms—twenty-six times to be exact. Today let your hours be flooded—saturated with Alleluia. When you are tempted to become a victim and self-conscious with “poor me,” take on the heavenly perspective of the Lord looking down on the whole earth, not losing the smallest detail of your need. If your heart is barren as the childless mother in the final verse, Alleluia prayed with faith can fill your empty heart with God.
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What verse lifts itself for you to create a seven-syllable Bible Breath?
We continue to pray the Psalms in numerical order.
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