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Hallelujah! The Power of the Word

haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote because it was " an audio lesson of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take the time about this issue and consider the term "Hallelujah" in a few depth.

Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Strangely enough, it is a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the word "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be same: In Spanish it's "Aleluya", in Finnish and German it's "Haleluja", in French it's "Alleluia", in Estonian it's "Haleluuja", in Icelandic it's Halleluja, in Slovak it's "Aleluia" and also on and also on that way. So it is anything whose four syllables have a similar meaning to most of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa and so they know how you're feeling. Hardly any words translate like that. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in its pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is truly universal.

haleluja - I know of not one other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, it's a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated again and again oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I have found that when I'm writing a sacred song and I am most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill away from me over and over as the melodies pour through me from God. Repeatedly, "Hallelujah". It occurs frequently which i need to rewrite the lyrics into short, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing only "Hallelujahs".

A man named George Fredric Handel put on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". That has not sat in wonder at the singing with this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from the choir?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For that Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

In no way comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in a song that opened the performance with the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold out audiences for more than seven years in Nyc.

Let's start using a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There is music in our lives
There is music up all over
There exists a spirit in our lives
And the music as well as the spirit is one

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

An easy statement, though the body weight and power this amazing word it is certain the audiences knew wherever we had been going with the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly into the arena of spiritual thought.

haleluja - Just what word but symbolic for an idea. These sounds that come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. Say the word "streetcar" and we know precisely that which you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as much definitions of this word because you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page plus some way feeling and having the light that you will be experiencing. It's a word that bears repetition, no, in fact, clamors for repetition, for to say it once just isn't enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated in the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.

When life is at its best, in the moment when few other words suffice, for many people here on this planet, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is also immediately understood deeply within the soul of all.