There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

loneliness or escape from your parents, or because of some raging hormones. It should be out of mutual love and agreement of being in God’s will. However, there is an increase in spiritual authority when two are join together. It only requires two to be in agreement, asking in faith, “concerning anything that they ask, [and] it will be done for them” (Matt. 18:19). With Pam by my side, two were now praying for the revivals, two were agreeing for the ministry, two were walking in faith, and two increases spiritual authority over the enemy. There was also the amazing power of love to soothe fear and anxiety. In conferences I often encounter people battling fear, who request for me to pray that the “spirit of fear” (2 Tim. 1:7) depart from them. I remind them of this verse: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. —1 JOHN 4:18 Every believer should have a godly fear, but not a fear of Satan, of men, or of the future. The Greek word for “torment” is kolosis ; it refers to “correction, punishment, and penalty” and brings with it the idea of some form of punishment. All fear plants seeds of the idea of something bad happening, or of a penalty or retaliation. When we understand the full level of God’s love—that He is for us and not against us, with us and not distant from us, in us and not rejecting us—then fear of spiritual or eternal correction or penalty (loss of reward) at the judgment seat of Christ is diminished. If God is for us, then