Main Scriptures: Psalm 39, 126

Additional Scriptures: John 16:33, Ezekiel 36:26, Isaiah 53:3

POINTS:

• When we become a Christian, we receive a new, tender heart, that feels things that we’ve never felt before. As we grow in grace we feel these things in a much deeper way.

• Jesus had the perfect human heart and He was a man of sorrows

• “If you are weeping and grieving because you love someone, you are reflecting God’s image. In other words, you are responding the way God would” (Grief Share)

• When we don’t expect tears, we not only cry because we are grieving, we cry because we are crying. We see our tears as a breakdown.

• When we dump, numb, and stuff our feelings we never sow seed, and this eventually causes us to breakdown.

• To have a breakthrough we must plant our tears with prayer.

• We must pray with the cross in mind.

• When we plant our tears in prayer, our tears don’t give way to joy, they actually produce joy.

• When Jesus wept, it wasn’t a breakdown, it was a breakthrough.

• OTW is a harvest of tears planted in prayer.