By Pastor Oloruntimilehin Joshua Daramola

Many people are in bondage because of unfulfilled vows. Brethren it is pertinent to share with you a true life story of a mother that put herself in bondage through vow. This woman started a relationship with a man in the university.

One is Igbo and the other Yoruba. As the relationship was on course, they spelt out to each other what could annoy them and lead to termination of the relationship. In fact both had the same thing, that is no dating of another woman or man and jilting of one another.

After about five months of the relationship, suddenly the man visited the woman in the female hostel and met another male student lying with the lady on her bed, the lady had a wrapper on her.

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Immediately the other male student saw that the man was the lady’s boyfriend, he excused himself and left. The boyfriend accused the lady of double dating. The lady responded quickly by vowing that if she had anything to do with the other male student, that if she had 10 children she should not gain or enjoy any of them. The boyfriend was surprised at her reaction because of the condition he met the lady and the other man.

But she insisted that she had no relationship with the other man by swearing again. The boyfriend believed her because of the vow. However, she thought the relationship could not lead to marriage because her parent would not accept a non–Igbo man as their in-law.

Some years after their university education they married because her parent accepted her would-be husband who was good to his would-be in-laws. They had children but could not get university education and those that got into university were expelled because of cultism and fake entry papers. Her female children became prostitutes.

Imagine the woman never enjoyed anything from the children despite the family riches and wealth. On several occasions she remembered the vow she made to her husband in their university days. But she could not confess or tell her husband because he loved her dearly and detested a woman dating more than one man. Confessing to her husband could turn to big problem and she kept mute.

Eventually she did not confess to her husband until he died. Parents have put their children in bondage by making false vows. I pray in the name of Jesus for mothers and their children that all the bondage their mothers put their children through their adulterous behaviours should be loosed by God Almighty.

This woman was already 70 when she came to me crying that her children are nothing and she was not enjoying them. The spirit of God revealed that she was the cause of her children’s problem through the vow she made several years ago.

Then she decided to tell me her ordeal and the problem confronting her. She had used the authority on her tongue to put her children in bondage. Numbers 30:2-5 says: “If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her”.

The verse above refers to those people that make promises or vows to their parents that when they are successful they would take care of their parents. If they fail to fulfill the promise to their parents they are in bondage. The bible also teaches that parents should forbid their word’s making promises so that all the vows that bound the children would not stand. But if parents say nothing when they hear the promises then all the vows that bound the children would stand.

Therefore, I implore parents and children to take cognizance of the danger in making vows that people cannot fulfill. So many people have put themselves in bondage when they were with their parent. And they experience the wrath making unfulfilled vows. Parents that spent a lot on their children for them to succeed cannot know if they are going to enjoy their children until they see the kind of relationship the children exhibit with them.

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