Open Heaven 24
August 2020: [Monday] – Redeem Your Vows
Memorise: When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou
shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee;
and it would be sin in thee. Deuteronomy 23:21
Read: Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 (KJV)
4 When thou
vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools:
pay that which thou hast vowed.
5 Better is
it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6 Suffer
not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,
that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy
the work of thine hands?
Message:-
It is a terrible thing to
make a vow to God and not fulfil it.
Open Heaven 24 August 2020 – Redeem Your Vows
The Bible puts the people who do such in
the same category as those who say there is no God – fools (Ecclesiastes 5:4).
Many people have made vows based on resources that they don’t have. While they
may claim to be making such vows by faith, is it not better so say “Lord if you
give me this contact, then I will give you so and so percent of the money” than
to make vows beyond your actual present reality?
“Suffer
not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,
that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy
the work of thine hands?
Ecclesiastes
5:6
Open Heaven 24 August 2020: [Monday] – Redeem Your Vows
From the Bible verse above,
we see that there is an angel assigned to the recording and collection of vows.
That is how seriously God takes vows. Ecclesiastes 5:6 shows that when a vow
defaulter prays, instead of getting an answer to the prayer, he/she gets God’s
anger. Then it goes ahead to say that God could destroy the work of their hands
too! By now, it should be very clear to you that it is better no to make a vow
at all than to make one and not fulfil it. Think very carefully before you make
any vows.
Open Heaven 24 August 2020 Monday: Action Point
Now, in case you have made
a vow you did not fulfil, if at all you can, I advise you to quickly go ahead
and do so now. If it is however, something that you cannot fulfil, then you
should go before God pleading for mercy. Acts 17:30 says:
“And
the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every
where to repent:”
So go ahead and cry to Him
for mercy, but now that you know, ensure you don’t make vows carelessly again.
Action Point
Think of all the vows you have made in the past and don’t fulfil. Do
your best to fulfil them now. God takes vows very seriously.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,
one of the largest evangelical Churches in
the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
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