Revival In Tears

For years we’ve been hearing about revival but, if we’re honest, a lot of us haven’t been feeling it in our everyday lives. There’s a gap between what we’re hearing God is doing and what we’re actually living, and that gap can leave us tired, confused, and asking, “God, where are You in all this?”

This message takes us to the story of Jeremiah and introduces us to something the Church rarely talks about: lament. The Bible is full of it. In fact, about a third of the Psalms are laments, and Scripture shows us that God Himself grieves. We’ve gotten really good at learning how to thrive, but not so good at learning how to suffer well. What we discover is that lament isn’t a lack of faith, it’s telling the truth about where we are while still trusting who God is. We can cry and still worship. We can grieve and still have hope. The tears we’ve cried in hard seasons haven’t been wasted, they’ve been softening our hearts for what God wants to bring next.

Just like the writer of It Is Well With My Soul worshiped God after unimaginable loss, we’re invited to worship God not for what He does, but for who He is. Psalm 126 reminds us that those who go out weeping with seed will come back carrying a harvest. Even now, God is using our tears to prepare us for breakthrough.