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The Gift of Tears
The Holy Spirit is bringing the Church to a new place of prayer that we haven't seen in this generation. This kind of praying is prayer on the other side of words and is wrought in a people who have been delivered from their own strength, wisdom, and resource. this kind of praying is ugly, desperate, and vulnerable as God delivers us from our programs, personalities, and strategies, and gifts us the greatest gift He could The Gift of Tears. The Gift of Tears is God's work in a people who have come to the end of the themselves and find a new prayer born deep within tears.
110 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2021
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Corey Russell
46 books79 followersCorey Russell currently serves on the senior leadership team of the International House of Prayer (IHOP- KC) as he has done for the last 11 years. Corey is the Director of the Forerunner Program at the International House of Prayer University (IHOPU), discipling and training young preachers and leaders. He travels nationally and internationally preaching on themes of Knowledge of God, Intercession, and the Forerunner Ministry. He resides in Kansas City with his wife Dana and their three daughters Trinity, Mya and Hadassah.
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April 13, 2021
All Jesus lovers need to stop and read this book right now. It’s 94 pages. However, in 94 pages you will encounter Holy Spirit in a way you often don’t. It’s beautiful, powerful, phophetic, and confirming. Best Jesus book I’ve ever read so far. Try tears!
February 18, 2025
Good message - felt more like a coffee chat w/ Corey rather than needing a book.
February 3, 2022
so powerful!!!!!
God has been stirring weeping in my Spirit and this book has been imparting to me a fresh groan! It’s time to turn our joy into sorrow and begin to weep for a lost generation! There are so many on the verge of desolation and we carry the answer but we must pray for the hardened hearts of our generation to be broken and softened to the gospel message we do minister! I highly recommend this book to you. May it cause a deepened desire for God to move in your generation
God has been stirring weeping in my Spirit and this book has been imparting to me a fresh groan! It’s time to turn our joy into sorrow and begin to weep for a lost generation! There are so many on the verge of desolation and we carry the answer but we must pray for the hardened hearts of our generation to be broken and softened to the gospel message we do minister! I highly recommend this book to you. May it cause a deepened desire for God to move in your generation
August 4, 2023
The Gift of Tears Wrecked Me In a Good Way
The Gift of Tears got to the core of my heart. I was challenged, moved and ultimately compelled to get more intimate with God in my prayer life by leading with sincerity and a humble and trusting heart posture before God. Corey Russell is Holy Spirit driven in this book and gives bull's-eye prophetic insight to our times and calling. I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks taking their prayer life to another dimension.
The Gift of Tears got to the core of my heart. I was challenged, moved and ultimately compelled to get more intimate with God in my prayer life by leading with sincerity and a humble and trusting heart posture before God. Corey Russell is Holy Spirit driven in this book and gives bull's-eye prophetic insight to our times and calling. I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks taking their prayer life to another dimension.
June 5, 2021
"Weeping Gets the Witchcraft Out"
The personal and historical stories that the author writes in the book are stirring and intriguing and moving, but how He connects tears to the men and women in the Bible - and more importantly the heart of God - moves me to the place of weeping. God wants to produce tears in me more than I want to be a man of tears.
The personal and historical stories that the author writes in the book are stirring and intriguing and moving, but how He connects tears to the men and women in the Bible - and more importantly the heart of God - moves me to the place of weeping. God wants to produce tears in me more than I want to be a man of tears.
July 22, 2021
a good book about emotions in the bible. the guy is a little wacky with some of his claims but read it with discernment. all in all a decent read that is really short. he kinda makes you feel a little bad if you don’t weep every time you pray which in my opinion is a bit extreme. but some good stuff about emotions.
August 5, 2025
We need a new generation of prophetic messengers who speak from hearts that have been deeply cut by the words they speak.
People who are okay with being human. Humans feel things- this is natural and healthy.
We’re a generation that wants to translate right to the resurrection, but it’s as if God is saying, “Whoa! You’re going to find Me in the brokenness, in the weeping.” There’s a place of humility, vulnerability, and honesty. There’s a place where all of your views of God are put to the test. This is the place where you wrestle with how you really feel. And this is where faith arises in your heart.
God wants to hear me admit that I don’t understand! I’m not always meant to understand- and that hurts. The hurt is not wrong. The confusion and pain is not wrong. It is HARD and that’s okay.
—> Tears flow where solutions cease. Mary fell at Jesus’ feet in the swirl of confusion, not knowing or understanding why He delayed. She let that cut into her, and she wept.
“Tears flow where solutions cease.”
Humility is so important. Something about saying to God- I tried, in all my human strength. Now I realise I actually can’t figure it out anymore. It’s exhausting. I’m crying. Please help me, sit with me, see me, hear me.
This is the place where our views of God are put to the test - where faith arises.
Tears come when you run out of options. They are a language all their own. They’re the expression of a soul that’s on the other side of words. Such tears will provoke a response in God. He won’t be silent at your tears (see Ps. 39:12).
Jesus won’t be silent at your tears!!!
Letting that sink in right now.
Jesus heaved and cried and sobbed. And we must stop and watch Him weep. We can’t move on so quickly to the next verse. We have to behold the weeping God in all of His vulnerability as He gathers up all the pain, sorrow, accusation, and plots of wicked men and weeps in front of us all. Jesus wept.
JESUS WEPT!!!
Just as God steps into our weariness, our brokenness, our vulnerability, he invites us into his vulnerability to see the gentle nature of His presence. He is a God who weeps. Not just a few meek tears but fervent sobs. He is a God who FEELS.
God stores every one of your tears in a bottle in Heaven, and in the divine time and season, He pours that bottle out into your life, your family, your circumstances, your world.
God never wastes tears. He remembers the tears we forget crying. He sees them all. Emotions aren’t wrong. Remember, God created them too. For his divine purpose.
“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.” Joel 2:12–13
I believe corporate humility, brokenness, and weeping will provoke a corporate outpouring of the Spirit.
Laughter is coming, friend.
Dreaming again is coming, friend.
Singing is coming again, friend.
Harvest is coming, friend.
People who are okay with being human. Humans feel things- this is natural and healthy.
We’re a generation that wants to translate right to the resurrection, but it’s as if God is saying, “Whoa! You’re going to find Me in the brokenness, in the weeping.” There’s a place of humility, vulnerability, and honesty. There’s a place where all of your views of God are put to the test. This is the place where you wrestle with how you really feel. And this is where faith arises in your heart.
God wants to hear me admit that I don’t understand! I’m not always meant to understand- and that hurts. The hurt is not wrong. The confusion and pain is not wrong. It is HARD and that’s okay.
—> Tears flow where solutions cease. Mary fell at Jesus’ feet in the swirl of confusion, not knowing or understanding why He delayed. She let that cut into her, and she wept.
“Tears flow where solutions cease.”
Humility is so important. Something about saying to God- I tried, in all my human strength. Now I realise I actually can’t figure it out anymore. It’s exhausting. I’m crying. Please help me, sit with me, see me, hear me.
This is the place where our views of God are put to the test - where faith arises.
Tears come when you run out of options. They are a language all their own. They’re the expression of a soul that’s on the other side of words. Such tears will provoke a response in God. He won’t be silent at your tears (see Ps. 39:12).
Jesus won’t be silent at your tears!!!
Letting that sink in right now.
Jesus heaved and cried and sobbed. And we must stop and watch Him weep. We can’t move on so quickly to the next verse. We have to behold the weeping God in all of His vulnerability as He gathers up all the pain, sorrow, accusation, and plots of wicked men and weeps in front of us all. Jesus wept.
JESUS WEPT!!!
Just as God steps into our weariness, our brokenness, our vulnerability, he invites us into his vulnerability to see the gentle nature of His presence. He is a God who weeps. Not just a few meek tears but fervent sobs. He is a God who FEELS.
God stores every one of your tears in a bottle in Heaven, and in the divine time and season, He pours that bottle out into your life, your family, your circumstances, your world.
God never wastes tears. He remembers the tears we forget crying. He sees them all. Emotions aren’t wrong. Remember, God created them too. For his divine purpose.
“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.” Joel 2:12–13
I believe corporate humility, brokenness, and weeping will provoke a corporate outpouring of the Spirit.
Laughter is coming, friend.
Dreaming again is coming, friend.
Singing is coming again, friend.
Harvest is coming, friend.
December 14, 2024
This book is very interesting with a lot of thoughtful insights! I like how short it is, it felt like it got more to the point and didn’t drag things out longer than it needed to. There were a couple of points that even months after reading it, I’m still dwelling on a lot! Like I think about tears being cleansing, especially against certain demonic spirits, quite often! Our eyes, ears, mouth, skin, etc consumes so much and when there is a demonic presence in something near us, whether it be a show, book or a person manifesting, we take it in but there is always an opportunity for us to be CLEANSED and the gift of tears is crucial to our cleansing and purification! How powerful! It makes you want to guard what you consume as well as allow yourself to stay soft to Holy Spirit so that you will be moved to tears according His will. It was such an excellent point! I loved it!
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December 16, 2024
This book had me in tears the vast majority of the time I spent reading it. Cory perfectly articulates what God has been working in our life, especially during the last seven years, and offers an intense hope that it is all perfectly in line with the goodness of his nature and his deep desire to transform us in the most fundamental ways.
If you think you might need this book, I guarantee you do. Buy it and let it wreck you.
Favorite Quote: “I believe this furnace will either be the end of you, or it will be your breakthrough into the next season. When our nice theologies of the perfect Christian experience are destroyed, we are left with the choice either to withdraw our hearts and medicate our pain or live in the tension of what Jesus said He would do but hasn't yet done.”
If you think you might need this book, I guarantee you do. Buy it and let it wreck you.
Favorite Quote: “I believe this furnace will either be the end of you, or it will be your breakthrough into the next season. When our nice theologies of the perfect Christian experience are destroyed, we are left with the choice either to withdraw our hearts and medicate our pain or live in the tension of what Jesus said He would do but hasn't yet done.”
November 28, 2021
Incredible Breakthrough
This book has come at a perfect time in my life. After losing my wife to cancer at 37 years old this last summer, our little family is heartbroken. She was so full of faith and courage.. To lose her was crushing to me. We did all of the things… We believed, we prayed, we wept…
This book has come at a perfect time in my life. After losing my wife to cancer at 37 years old this last summer, our little family is heartbroken. She was so full of faith and courage.. To lose her was crushing to me. We did all of the things… We believed, we prayed, we wept…
April 4, 2022
Un libro que nos desafía a pasar por el valle de las lágrimas para ser transformados, para cambiar nuestro estilo de oración, para mover el corazón del Padre. Las lágrimas muchas veces se han asociado a debilidad o sentimientos negativos, pero la realidad es que las lágrimas son un regalo de Dios que transforman nuestra visión de las cosas.
February 13, 2023
This book was excellent! It really fired my spirit up for something MORE in my relationship with God. It really highlights the importance of weeping and emotions which is something that isn’t really taught well in the Church. The book really opened my eyes to why people weep… Jesus is glorious and He’s the example that Tears are a gift!
October 18, 2024
Corey Russel writes so passionately. Every personal story, scripture and page spoke deeply to me about the Father’s love & desire for us to bring our lives, emotions and tears to Him. Personally, Corporately, Reviving tears. Encouraged beyond words in this deep well of insight. This would be a great gift, book study, corporate read among leaders.
September 10, 2021
I encourage all Christians read this. I bought this because in my own life, I came to a place of many tears before the Lord. I affirm that I believe everything in this is accurate. Tears bring your prayers to the next level! Tears are your heart poured out to Him! Be challenged and encouraged!
June 2, 2021
Try Tears!
Tears turn the heart of Jesus, so make them a priority! Thank you Corey for your experience with tears. Let the River flow and flow and flow.
Tears turn the heart of Jesus, so make them a priority! Thank you Corey for your experience with tears. Let the River flow and flow and flow.
October 5, 2021
Tears for the future
I wept as I read this book. It confirms my understanding and provides me a framework for a ministry, for a fast, for prayers. Thank you.
I wept as I read this book. It confirms my understanding and provides me a framework for a ministry, for a fast, for prayers. Thank you.
October 8, 2021
Revolutionary. Jesus mark this generation with your heart. PROVOKE us to tears. Your tears. Corey Russels hits the nail on the head.
December 15, 2021
After coming out a long season of depression I know what is to carry The Burden of The Lord 🙏 in my heart and emotions. Tears are truly coming back to the church!!!
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January 7, 2022
Wow this book was only 90 pages long but so deep and profound. The world needs the perspective and wisdom it brings.
February 20, 2022
Great use of scripture to describe how the tears of Gods people touch His heart. It’s a short book and quick read.
March 18, 2025
Wrecked 🫠🫠🫠
April 30, 2025
Have been (and probably will be for a long time) thinking about this book since I finished it
June 9, 2025
Almost gave five stars. This book changed my prayer life
June 17, 2025
very good and i think he's right on the money with this, I related alot to what he said
September 1, 2025
So much of this is unfamiliar to me, but the type of life I long for
July 23, 2025
If you are wanting a deeper and more intimate relationship with Holy Spirit, I highly recommend this book. God has anointed Corey Russell to equip the body of Christ with his knowledge on the Bible and the deep things of God. The "tongue prayer points" at the end of each chapter gave me the ability to have that time with Holy Spirit to engage in the chapter I just read and have scriptures to cross reference. I took my time with this book as I wanted to really absorb and "sit" with Holy Spirit on what I was reading. Give yourself quiet time and have your Bible ready too when reading this beautifully written book.
November 20, 2024
Just keep weeping! Love this book!
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