There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

national debt of America is causing every American to owe a debt to the Federal government that increases each week. The distress was a mental emotion as the people had no control over their circumstances or the national events occurring around them. Distress and debt lead to discontent, causing a lack of joy and peace and a restlessness that settles like a blanket over the people. These three sources of discouragement were enough to set people at their wits’ end. Even David flirted with disaster at a place called Ziklag. THE ZIKLAG EFFECT In the setting of the narrative Saul had assigned his personal army to capture David at all cost. A report came that David had visited the high priest at a place called Nob. Saul interrogated the priests and discovered they had fed David the showbread from the golden table in the tabernacle. Saul was enraged and instructed eighty-five priests to be slaughtered (1 Sam. 22:19). As this word reached David, he also learned that his old friend, the prophet Samuel, had suddenly died (1 Sam. 25:1). As long as Samuel lived, David had a prayer covering. Now his head intercessor was gone. The third problem (remember trouble comes in threes) was Saul, who had discovered David’s hiding place in the heart of the Judean wilderness (1 Sam. 26). Thus all forms of David’s protection and provision were now cut off. In the time of trouble David could go before the priest and inquire of the Lord at the tabernacle, to confirm or reconfirm his actions were or were not in God’s will. Now the