For years I felt trapped in my situations and couldn’t understand why. Then I learned about Inner vows. An inner vow is where we make a vow to do something or not to do something. When I was younger I made a lot of vows . I used a lot of words not realizing that my words had power .
I had no clue that a vow was a covenant, an agreement to either do or not to do something. The only vow that I was aware of was the marriage vow and honestly I just said those words because that’s what I was taught that you do when you marry.
God was not in most of my marriages because when I prayed to him heaven was closed. I had no idea that I was in rebellion to him since the age of 12 . I said “I would never trust him again because he had let me down.”.
The enemy had ensnared me once again by my words.
John 10:10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Mark 3:27No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
When I spoke I NEVER they were just words of anger and hurt to me. I had NO idea that they were a vow that I was coming into agreement with. Nor that it was putting a shackle on my leg in the spiritual realm. The power of the words in a vow have the power to bind you to the very thing that you are just ranting about because you are trying to release your hurt.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6
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.5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6Suffer 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?
When I was ranting I was trying to convince myself that I would never do something again that would hurt me.Problem was I had 2 vows working against one another. I didn’t want to get hurt but I didn’t want to be alone either.
So I would date but I had my guard up, I was always suspicious of their motives because I had been hurt so many times before. This either caused me to run away from them in fear of getting hurt OR it would bring about the very thing that I didn’t want to happen , them leaving me.
Most of the time I think what drove them away was I had become a burden emotionally and I just wanted too much.
These are some of the vows that I had made that I had to break in order to let God come into my brokenness and heal me.
I had to repent for making the vow to never trust God again, this was my first step to being able to break the other vows . I needed the Holy Spirit and the power of the cross to break the chains that had been binding me for years…
Then I had to break these other vows
Vow to never get close to anyone again.
Vow to never open up about my heartache.
Vow to never forget someone.
Vow to never leave someone behind.
Vow to never be like my parents.
Vow to never hurt anyone.
Vow to never trust anyone again.
Vow to never tell someone my feelings , after all what good did it do me before? My feelings just drove them away.
Vow to always be there for someone.
Vow to take care of someone at all costs.
Vow to always help the ones that I cared about.
Vow to never abandon them like others had abandoned me .
Here is a small prayer if you need one to help you break these vows.
Father forgive me for making vows to not trust you or anyone else with my heart ever again. I realize that my making vows to not trust you bound you from helping me in the areas that I needed you the most.
I now come out of agreement with each vow that I have made and ask you to forgive me for making them .(Read each vow that God is showing you that you have made also) I take these vows to the cross, reckon them as dead, cover them with the blood and fill them with the Holy Spirit I pray for life and life abundantly In Jesus Name!! I pray that you will destroy this altar of protecting self with the blood of Jesus and that Satan will now start to repay me for everything that he has stolen out of my life because of my vows. In Jesus name.