Text: Psalm 136; 150

The Lord has sustained you for these forty days; He has protected and provided, He has answered prayer and unveiled mysteries, He has guided and inspired, He has shared even more love and a mercy that endures forever!

John Pulsford, in Quiet Hours, (1857) writes,

“Each of the last five Psalms begins and ends with Hallelujah! – ‘Praise ye the Lord.’ And each Psalm increases in praise, love, and joy, unto the last, which is praise celebrating its ecstasy. The elect soul, the heir of God, becomes “eaten up” with the love of God. He begins every sentence with Hallelujah; and his sentences are very short, for he is in haste to utter his next Hallelujah, and his next, and his next. He is as one out of breath with enthusiasm, or as one on tiptoe, in the act of rising from earth to heaven. The greatest number of words between any two Hallelujahs is four, and that only once, in every other instance, between one Hallelujah and another there are but two words. It is as though the soul gave utterance to its whole life and feeling in the one word, Hallelujah! The words, ‘Praise ye the Lord! or, ‘Praise him!’ ‘Praise him!’ ‘Praise him!’ are reiterated no fewer than twelve times in a short Psalm of six short verses.”

Today’s prayer is Hallelujah—let it be voiced throughout the day!