There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

ability, his wisdom, or his strength but in the “L ORD his God” (1 Sam. 30:6, KJV ). The root word in encourage is courage . If David were to pursue his enemies and overtake them, it would require a supernatural courage that only comes from God. This is the same boldness he sensed when as a teenager he stood before Goliath. (See 1 Samuel 17.) THE SICK EGYPTIAN Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, and they let him drink water. And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. So when he had eaten, his strength came back to him; for he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights. —1 SAMUEL 30:11–12 David’s enemies had a three-day head start and could have departed in any direction. However, David discovered a sick Egyptian in a field outside of Ziklag. He was a servant of one of the military commanders who had invaded Ziklag. Under an oath of protection from David, he “spilled the beans” and revealed the battle plan and the location where David’s enemies had taken all the families and the possessions from the city. Imagine this. While the invasion is on, this Egyptian A part of the story that is often overlooked is the sick Egyptian.