There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

faith, which David identified in Psalm 5:12: “For You, O L ORD , will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield.” We have a mental image of favor being a supernatural force, an aura, some unseen vapor from God or some internal charisma pulling people toward some folks like a magnet. We imagine favor as abiding either in or upon a blessed, righteous person. However, in this passage the psalmist refers to favor as a shield that covers the individual. When you carry a shield of favor, even your enemies will be at peace with you, and what evil is headed in your direction will get aborted before it can ever endanger you. THE SHIELDS OF SOLOMON Years ago in Israel I heard of a Jewish tradition regarding the shields of Solomon that was quite interesting. In the Bible David, Solomon’s father, desired to construct the temple of God in Jerusalem. However, the Lord refused his offer, as David was a man of blood and war (1 Chron. 28:3). Solomon succeeded his father, David, as Israel’s young king and was known as a man of peace. During his forty-year reign Solomon constructed the most elaborate and expensive temple in world history and made peace treaties with foreign nations, causing Israel to be at the zenith of its prosperity and blessings. We know that Solomon had an army, and he made three hundred gold shields, each containing three pounds of gold, and hung them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 10:17). It is said that Solomon placed on each of the shields of his