There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

There is no greater example in the Bible of a person who truly loved God and was consumed with His presence, but who fell from the height of God’s glory to the pit of despair, than King David. David was a singer and a harp player whose gift was so anointed that he would play a harp and evil spirits would depart from Saul (1 Sam. 16:16). As a teenager, David killed a giant whom for forty days no other Israeli soldier would battle (1 Sam. 17). After becoming king, David constructed a tent for continual worship and brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem and placed it in this tabernacle—the place where many of the psalms were written (1 Chron. 15–16). However, David had one dark side. He committed adultery with another man’s wife, she became pregnant, and David had the husband set up to be killed in battle (2 Sam. 11–12). After David’s sin was exposed, he was viewed in a totally different way by his peers and the people in his kingdom. He lost the joy of salvation and began to feel the presence of the Lord leak out of his own soul, leaving him with a feeling of anguish and despair. At one point David cried out to God: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

—PSALM 51:8–9, NIV It is easy to stand up in church with your hands raised in a worship atmosphere, shout an occasional amen to the