There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

breakdown. My wife’s own precious mother had experienced a similar emotional collapse when she was about thirty years of age and Pam was only fourteen years of age. My dad’s own father, William Stone, broke under mental pressure, and he too experienced a breakdown in the 1970s. Several years after I was married on April 2, 1982, at a time when I was sharing about these seasons of depression with my wife, the light came on! It appears I was dealing with some type of a familiar spirit—not one possessing me but one oppressing me, hoping to work its power against me, wearing me down mentally to a breaking point as it had different family members in the past. This oppression, which had continued for about five years, finally broke soon after I recognized this oppression from a familiar spirit, and as a benefit of my marriage to my wife, Pam. I observed that the oppression, depression, and anxiety I had experienced were replaced with peace and joy. The marriage to my sweetheart had filled a void spot of loneliness. A passage written by Solomon helped explain this: Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? —ECCLESIASTES 4:9–11 A single person should marry in God’s will and not to avoid