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Our next tears will be tears of joy.

Life has a way of taking us through valleys we never asked to walk through. We may have cried silent tears in the night, tears of disappointment, betrayal, loneliness or pain. Maybe we have been holding it all together for so long that we have forgotten what peace really feels like. But today, hear this deeply in our spirit, our next tears will be tears of joy.

God sees our heartache. He has not been blind to our struggles or deaf with our prayers. Psalm 56:8 says “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” Every tear we have shed has been noticed and none of them have been wasted. God is working behind the scenes even when we can’t see it, even when we don’t feel it.

This season of struggle is not our final story. The word says in psalm 30:5 “weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning”. That joy is coming not just a little relief, not a temporary fix but the kind of joy that turns mourning into dancing and the kind that brings restoration, healing and laughter again.

Sometimes God allows us to go through storms not to break us, but to build us. What we thought could destroy us, God is using to shape us, strengthen us, and prepare us for something greater. There is a purpose for the pain, and our breakthrough is closer than we think.

Our next tears will fall not from sorrow, but from gratitude from the overwhelming realisation that God came through for us, that He never left us and that His promises are true.

So, hold on, keep the faith, keep showing up, praying, believing and trusting. God is not finished with our story yet, what’s ahead is worth the wait. Joy is on the way.