There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

known American minister (whom I will leave nameless) walk up the street alone and into a building that housed prostitutes. He was not there to “witness” and was in the building for quite some time. It would later be learned that several ministers made occasional trips through Amsterdam and would “visit” certain places during their overnight stays. These unprotected moments of greatest vulnerability occur when you willfully choose to lay down your armor, cease to be a soldier for a time, and enter places that are full of land mines and possible spiritual snipers waiting in the dark to take a shot at you. Samson was the prime biblical example of a man of God who had no business being in the place he was, when he was, with whom he was, and doing what he was doing. He threw his spiritual armor on when he was fighting the Philistines, but he laid it down at the doorstep of Delilah’s apartment, picking it back up as he walked out the front door and headed back to the battlefield. Samson is also a perfect example of God’s amazing powerful twins of mercy and grace. Mercy is God’s hand reaching out to you, and grace is God’s hand pulling you back to Himself. Eventually Samson felt his hair tickling the back of his shoulder and heard the echo of the angel’s voice that had said, “The child shall be a Nazirite” (Judg. 13:5). When Samson remembered who he was created to be , God remembered what He created him for —a judge and a deliverer—for God said, “He shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines” (v. 5). Samson’s helmet of salvation suddenly reappeared, and faith was renewed. He knew God could touch him one more time. Thus he cried out, “O Lord G OD , remember