Is there something wrong with me?

[Mrs SPA]

Okay, this has been happening to me for awhile now. Any time I hear worship music, or a lot of times in the middle of the pastor's sermons, or when I'm reading my Bible or really any time I hear things being said about God and how He's working in people's lives, I start crying. I really have to control myself from not bursting into major tears. We're not talking just getting teary-eyed, I just feel so moved. It's a little embarrassing to feel like I cry so much, I don't want people to think I'm upset or sad. But I have a hard time controlling it. Am I just super sensitive, or is this the Holy Spirit really moving within me, or what? I never used to be like this, in fact, I've always been a very "strong" person emotionally, I never cried much before.

If this doesn't belong in Christian Chat, admins can move it. I just figured I'd get some opinions on how "normal" this is or isn't. :confused :redface

[penny4867]

Totally normal I think,:confused
I do it too, my husband just smiles at me now during worship at Church as I always cry, I dont know why though, I just get a feeling of humility, I cant explain it, but I know what you are saying :):

[70thWeek]

No, nothing is wrong with you.

[blitzkreig]

It happens all the time to me. I can't actually sing to most of the songs or I would just croak.

So often I just lipsync to the words and blink real quick so I don't have to wipe my eyes ... but in the end my nose just runs and I have to get the kleenex out again. :B:


:lol

[MNGirl]

I recently went to talk to my pastor's wife about how I would get more into volunteering at church and just started sobbing for no good reason. She ended up telling me all her troubles!

[countmeworthy]

I went through a period of crying profusely while listening to a sermon. It was during a very trying time for me. The words were exceedingly comforting...leaving me emotionally drained, but renewed in strength.

I haven't experienced a good crying spell in some time now. I don't want to go through any more crying spells!! I recall one season a few years back where my buckets & buckets of tears could have put out all the wildfires California & Arizona combined !!!

[4everHis]

I've heard of being bored to tears, I think you are blessed to tears.

Perfectly abnormal.

errrrr normal

I think

[cinlynn]

Okay, this has been happening to me for awhile now. Any time I hear worship music, or a lot of times in the middle of the pastor's sermons, or when I'm reading my Bible or really any time I hear things being said about God and how He's working in people's lives, I start crying. I really have to control myself from not bursting into major tears. We're not talking just getting teary-eyed, I just feel so moved. It's a little embarrassing to feel like I cry so much, I don't want people to think I'm upset or sad. But I have a hard time controlling it. Am I just super sensitive, or is this the Holy Spirit really moving within me, or what? I never used to be like this, in fact, I've always been a very "strong" person emotionally, I never cried much before.

If this doesn't belong in Christian Chat, admins can move it. I just figured I'd get some opinions on how "normal" this is or isn't. :confused :redface


Well... Everyone KNOWS I'm not normal... and I do the exact same thing.. So, what's that tell ya? :twitch



:D: You're fine... :hug I think the HS is moving in a mighty way! :nod

[Shieldbearer]

I'm the same way sometimes - especially while singing at church.

I remember one time we were visiting a church, and we were singing "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" and I just couldn't sing at all. The woman next to me was crying and trying to sing. After the song she looked at me and said "I can never sing here without crying".

And for me, it's not like I am sobbing. It's more like I just overflow with tears. I think it's probably normal, though I don't like crying in front of people and try not to do it :): .

[Leuretha]

Yes this happens to me all the time. I love it! I am glad to read that so many others are moved by Holy Spirit in this way. Thank you for posting this question. :hug

[Not by Sight]

Yep. It can be fairly embarrassing, as I get so overwhelmed and cry! Certain songs I can't even try to sing. You can totally forget trying to get through "How Great Thou Art". The song "In Christ Alone" will cause me to shake and cry when it gets to the part I have bolded below.

In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my heart is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My comforter, my all in all
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final death
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

[PlentyGroovy]

Yep!:): It used to be my goal to get through service without crying. Gave up the goal and just accepted there'd be times where the tears well up and run over. I've learned to grab a couple kleenex as I head off to church.:nod

[DestryRideAgain]

The only time I've cried was at the promise keepers convention last summer. Especially during "How Great Thou Art," I'm sure I was croaky too.:lol But then, it it might have been the sight of eight thousand men and boys praising God that really moved me.:redface It was strange really, the feeling. Tears of joy I think they were!:laugh

YBIC,
Destry

[HeIsEnough]

You sound fine to me. :):

[Mrs SPA]

Thanks everyone for your responses. I feel better knowing I'm not alone!

Not by Sight--oh man, that exact verse of In Christ Alone does it for me too! I even cry when I'm singing it here at home!

Sheildbearer--you're right. It's not like sobbing, just an overflow of tears. My husband now knows that me sticking an open hand towards him means to hand over his hankie!

[seeHimsoon]

I cry all the time. Worship songs, hearing the word preached, studying the bible, praying...I cry at church, I cry at home...singing In Christ Alone makes me cry!!

[ImForgiven]

Oh yeah...I think it's pretty normal! I can never make it through the song "I Can Only Imagine" without crying a river! Certainly other things trigger me to cry as well, but this is one song that I feel so deeply, and I believe that we'll be experiencing soon! :rapture

[Tee]

Yep. It can be fairly embarrassing, as I get so overwhelmed and cry! Certain songs I can't even try to sing. You can totally forget trying to get through "How Great Thou Art". The song "In Christ Alone" will cause me to shake and cry when it gets to the part I have bolded below.

In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my heart is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My comforter, my all in all
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final death
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

That is a great song. They have tons of great songs that move you like that. What does it for me is the last stanza

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

[Rebecki]

I was just thinking about this today!! I cannot listen to "Shout to the Lord" without getting choked up. So I have to just lip sinc. Only the Hillsongs version though.

I do believe it is the Holy Spirit stirring within us. :nod

[Arabesque]

I cry at the drop of a hat, it seems. Never used to be that way until I became saved. It's gotten to the point that I've stopped wearing makeup to church since my mascara would run and I'd look like a racoon.

[Stephanie]

Okay, this has been happening to me for awhile now. Any time I hear worship music, or a lot of times in the middle of the pastor's sermons, or when I'm reading my Bible or really any time I hear things being said about God and how He's working in people's lives, I start crying. I really have to control myself from not bursting into major tears. We're not talking just getting teary-eyed, I just feel so moved. It's a little embarrassing to feel like I cry so much, I don't want people to think I'm upset or sad. But I have a hard time controlling it. Am I just super sensitive, or is this the Holy Spirit really moving within me, or what? I never used to be like this, in fact, I've always been a very "strong" person emotionally, I never cried much before.

If this doesn't belong in Christian Chat, admins can move it. I just figured I'd get some opinions on how "normal" this is or isn't. :confused :redface


You're quite normal :-) My daughter Galeed has been sobbing in churches for a while now - just very emotional about the whole *reality* and *magnitude* of the sacrifice Jesus made for us. I think you're just very deeply affected by it. Maybe God just wanted you to have the blessing of being able to really feel and understand the seriousness of it, and you're reacting to that.

-Stephanie

[LisaAnn]

Back in my grandmothers day they called this 'getting blessed'. :D: :thumb

[kattallysn1]

Okay, this has been happening to me for awhile now. Any time I hear worship music, or a lot of times in the middle of the pastor's sermons, or when I'm reading my Bible or really any time I hear things being said about God and how He's working in people's lives, I start crying. I really have to control myself from not bursting into major tears. We're not talking just getting teary-eyed, I just feel so moved. It's a little embarrassing to feel like I cry so much, I don't want people to think I'm upset or sad. But I have a hard time controlling it. Am I just super sensitive, or is this the Holy Spirit really moving within me, or what? I never used to be like this, in fact, I've always been a very "strong" person emotionally, I never cried much before.

If this doesn't belong in Christian Chat, admins can move it. I just figured I'd get some opinions on how "normal" this is or isn't. :confused :redface
WHEW! Glad I am not the only one!

[Charity4Ever]

I cry during worship, during slideshows sometimes of pictures of Jesus, and during the sermon.

I cry when I'm tired and hurting and something tells me He's coming back soon or when I'm pining for Him.

I'm wierd, but only in the way I should be wierd, and I wouldn't have it any other way

[alabama35565]

yep, me too............you're normal........:nod :nod :nod :nod

[Waitin]

It's so good to hear others that do this! I thought it was my hormones out of whack! I cry in prayer- at church- singing- in my car- it is our over whelming love for the Lord!!

[tay]

Totally normal. Communion is especially tough for me to get through without tearing up.

[OwnedByJesus]

Okay, this has been happening to me for awhile now. Any time I hear worship music, or a lot of times in the middle of the pastor's sermons, or when I'm reading my Bible or really any time I hear things being said about God and how He's working in people's lives, I start crying. I really have to control myself from not bursting into major tears. We're not talking just getting teary-eyed, I just feel so moved. It's a little embarrassing to feel like I cry so much, I don't want people to think I'm upset or sad. But I have a hard time controlling it. Am I just super sensitive, or is this the Holy Spirit really moving within me, or what? I never used to be like this, in fact, I've always been a very "strong" person emotionally, I never cried much before.

If this doesn't belong in Christian Chat, admins can move it. I just figured I'd get some opinions on how "normal" this is or isn't. :confused :redface

Oh, bless you!
I am often moved to tears by how wonderful and gracious God is! The day before yesterday I was driving to work and got teary thinking of how beautyful God is and yet He loves me! WOW, God is GREAT!:clap

I think it's 100% normal to be moved by God like that. :dancing

Isn't there a song on Christian radio where the singer, a guy, says how often he is moved to tears by God? I think there is, I can relate.

Praise Him, for He has given us a small glimps of Himself and He is awesome!

[RobinB]

Me too. Christmas songs are the worst. :cry

[OwnedByJesus]

Yep. It can be fairly embarrassing, as I get so overwhelmed and cry! Certain songs I can't even try to sing. You can totally forget trying to get through "How Great Thou Art". The song "In Christ Alone" will cause me to shake and cry when it gets to the part I have bolded below.

In Christ Alone


:nod
I told my wife that many songs say very well what I feel; which is humbled, loved, and grateful...perhaps more than words can say, thus the tears.

You all are so great to say how God speaks to you and moves you!

Bless you all, and praise the Lord!:clap

[HeIsEnough]

Bless you all, and praise the Lord!:clap

:amen

[Enoch]

Perfectly normal.

[Moony2ns]

You sound normal to me also.

I go through stages of crying in church it seems. For several weeks, it was really uncontrollable and I was constantly asking my husband to grab some tissues for me while I was snotting all over myself. I started carrying Puffs in my Bible case, and then it stopped happening. :doh :lol

[humbleone]

I'm a little surprised the original poster thought something might be wrong with them.... definitely not I would say!

As for myself though, I wonder so. I NEVER cry or feel like crying or even feel anything, during praise and worship. Instead I am bored, looking at my watch and not being able to wait for it to be over. I look at others who get all "into" it (worship) and I just can't understand. I've even thought of coming into church late so as to miss the worship altogether but havent done that (yet?). So I think something is wrong with ME. Sorry to jump in like this!


-h