There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. —ROMANS 7:18–20 You can be a Bible-toting, Jesus-loving, church-attending, tithe-giving Christian and still have that inner me enemy attempting to dominate and control your life. In this struggle of the twins, either joy or melancholy will dominate. Worship will dominate, or it will be spiritual dryness. In Gethsemane Christ asked His disciples to pray, and they all began to sleep. Then Christ revealed, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matt. 26:41). Because man is a body, soul, and spirit, all three parts can be fed. The body survives with natural food and drink. Without natural food and water, the body cannot survive. The soul, or mind, is the intellectual and reasoning part of the human makeup and feeds off knowledge, images, pictures, and experiences; it is the place where wisdom is formed in a spiritually minded individual. The spirit of a man is the part that Christ referred to when He said to Satan, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). You will strengthen what you feed. However, not all types of food are good for the human body. Too much fat can clog the arteries and lead to heart failure. Wrong images imprinted in the mind from seeing or reading negative or perverse materials can build a prison of mental