There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

that a person has tried to be wise in their decision, and still trouble came and there was no way of escape. At times we do all we can do to resolve issues, only to say, “There is nothing left—now what?” Coming to your wits’ end is often the result of multiple attacks or combined challenges striking your job, family, health or finances at one time. I have often heard the expression, “Trouble comes in threes.” This was true with Job when he lost his ten children, all of his livestock, and his health—three losses at one time. (See Job 1–2.) After Job’s initial losses three “friends” arrived, attempting to explain the spiritual reason for his losses—although God later said that their opinions were not correct (Job 42:7). Three times trouble increases stress, for “a threefold chord is not quickly broken” (Eccles. 4:12). A threefold thread of difficulty can be woven to forge a stronghold, as indicated in the time King Saul ruled Israel: David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. —1 SAMUEL 22:1–2 This threefold chord was the “three Ds” of distress, discontent, and debt . King Saul had increased taxes on the people of Israel, and thus they were indebted, just as the