There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

beginning in his teen years. Sin had caused the divine presence to depart from him just as the air conditioner’s cool air disappears when the power goes out. There was no spiritual refreshing. The lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes had split David’s spiritual armor, opening his heart to unspeakable thoughts and breeding images that turned into actions. And all David wanted was to dance with broken bones! GETTING YOUR DANCE BACK There are numerous psalms called the “psalms of repentance,” where David is remembering his sins and calling out to God for mercy and forgiveness. In Psalm 51 David is crying out to God, “Let my broken bones dance again!” As the years passed, toward the end of his life, David began to reemphasize worship, and in Psalm 150 he pens, “Let everything that has breath praise the L ORD ” (v. 6). David lists numerous musical instruments and instructed the players to praise God with their instruments. In verse 4 of this psalm he instructs, “Praise him with the . . . dance!” The wounded king with broken bones was restored to the point he took back his worship, and once again he danced before the Lord prior to his departure. There are several types of wounds but basically two ways of getting them: uninvited wounds and self-inflicted wounds. The uninvited are initiated by outside forces or circumstances over which you have no control. You had no control over your boss laying you off from work, your husband leaving you for an old girlfriend, or your parents divorcing. However, at times our