When we are deeply distressed our cries come from the heart. There are the cries of those who deeply want to know God, not just know ABOUT Him. There are the cries of the lonely heart, people that even in a great crowd feel alone. And then there is the cry of God for His people. When Jesus lamented over Jerusalem He was crying from the heart.

1. Cries of the Heart

2. Cries of the Heart
The cry to know God

3. Cries of the Heart
Isaiah 40:22-26
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who
stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and
spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He
brings the princes to nothing; He makes the
judges of the earth useless. Scarcely shall

4. Cries of the Heart
Isaiah 40:22-26
they be planted, scarcely shall they be
sown, scarcely shall their stock take root in
the earth, when He will also blow on them,
and they will wither, and the whirlwind will
take them away like stubble. “To whom will
you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?”

5. Cries of the Heart
Isaiah 40:22-26
says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on
high, and see who has created these
things, who brings out their host by
number; He calls them all by name, by the
greatness of His might and the strength of
His power; not one is missing.

6. Cries of the Heart
Isaiah 40:28,29
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of
the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is
weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He
gives power to the weak, and to those who
have no might He increases strength.

7. Cries of the Heart
John 8:19
Then they said to Him, “Where is Your
Father?” Jesus answered, “You know
neither Me nor My Father. If you had
known Me, you would have known
My Father also.”

8. Cries of the Heart
John 14:7-9
“If you had known Me, you would have
known My Father also; and from now on
you know Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the
Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus

9. Cries of the Heart
John 14:7-9
said to him, “Have I been with you so
long, and yet you have not known Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me has seen
the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show
us the Father’?

10. Cries of the Heart
The cry of a lonely
heart

11. Cries of the Heart
Psalm 42:1-3
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”

12. Cries of the Heart
Luke 7:11-15
Now it happened, the day after, that He
went into a city called Nain; and many of
His disciples went with Him, and a large
crowd. And when He came near the gate
of the city, behold, a dead man was
being carried out, the only son of his

13. Cries of the Heart
Luke 7:11-15
mother; and she was a widow. And a
large crowd from the city was with her.
When the Lord saw her, He had
compassion on her and said to her,
“Do not weep.” Then He came and

14. Cries of the Heart
Luke 7:11-15
touched the open coffin, and those
who carried him stood still. And He
said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”
So he who was dead sat up and began
to speak. And He presented him to his
mother.

15. Cries of the Heart
Mark 3:31-35
Then His brothers and His mother came,
and standing outside they sent to Him,
calling Him. And a multitude was sitting
around Him; and they said to Him, “Look,
Your mother and Your brothers are
outside seeking You.”

16. Cries of the Heart
Mark 3:31-35
But He answered them, saying, “Who is My
mother, or My brothers?” And He looked
around in a circle at those who sat about
Him, and said, “Here are My mother and
My brothers! For whoever does the will of
God is My brother and My sister and
mother.”

17. Cries of the Heart
Mark 10:29,30
So Jesus answered and said,
“Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one
who has left house or brothers or
sisters or father or mother or wife or
children or lands, for My sake and the
gospel’s, who shall not receive a

18. Cries of the Heart
Mark 10:29,30
hundredfold now in this time—houses
and brothers and sisters and mothers
and children and lands, with
persecutions—and in the age to come,
eternal life.

19. Cries of the Heart
The cry of God for
His people

20. Cries of the Heart
Luke 13:34
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who
kills the prophets and stones those who
are sent to her! How often I wanted to
gather your children together, as a hen
gathers her brood under her wings, but
you were not willing!”

21. Cries of the Heart
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from
Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. For
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

22. Cries of the Heart
The cry to know God
The cry of a lonely heart
The cry of God for His people