There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

missile. If Satan planted the dart in Christ’s mind, Christ canceled it out when He spoke the Word into the atmosphere. The spoken Word of God is always superior to the spoken words of Satan. The concealed power in each word is released when mixed with faith and spoken with authority! 2. A BELIEVER CAN USE PERSONAL PROPHECY AS A WEAPON . When Paul wrote to Timothy, he instructed him: This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck. —1 TIMOTHY 1:18–19 Timothy was a young pastor ministering among older, established believers, some who considered him too young for this type of large ministry (1 Tim. 4:12). Apparently there was a confrontation with certain elders, as Timothy is instructed not to rebuke an elder (1 Tim. 5:1). Timothy was experiencing a spirit of fear , or in the Greek, a spirit of timidity or intimidation , resulting from this conflict. When Timothy was commissioned to Ephesus by Paul, the presbyters had laid hands upon Timothy and imparted spiritual gifts. Paul instructed Timothy, “Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of hands of the eldership” (1 Tim 4:14). This verse indicates that the Holy Spirit used Paul to give Timothy a prophetic word,