There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

Unknowingly Samson was engaged in a private war that would lead to his public humiliation. The danger of a private war is that unless your struggle is brought to light, no one will know you are fighting it. And while you smile, showing off your pearly whites, depression is weighing you down from the inside. Your nervous laughter serves to put a curtain up over those fiery darts while you are burning with the thought to take your own life. The comment of what a great family you have might cause you to cringe inside with the thought, “I hope they never find out how dysfunctional we really are.” The business success the man has in public is the talk of the town, but no one knows the alcoholic demon he hides in his desk drawer at his home office. Just as the sin of David reveals a five-part progression, there are also steps downward into the basement of private bondage. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION Any private sin begins with impressions , thoughts that become a visible mental picture. This is the realm of imagination and mental images. If the imprints on your mind become a fantasy story in your head, then they will become an obsession you will pursue. Obsessions eventually forge mental strongholds, and strongholds are like walls that keep your thoughts locked in a cage in bars of your own mental prison. When mental thoughts persist over time, and these thoughts are negative, perverse, or fleshly, then the Holy Spirit will initiate a good dose of conviction to reprove you and move