How To Pray The Prayer of A Vow

Making A Vow In Prayer

The Most Powerful Prayer in Really Tight Situation


1 Samuel 1:11

And she [Hannah] made this VOW: “O  lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you.......”


Prayer of a vow is when you make a strong promise to God that you will do a certain thing if God answers your prayer or if He rescues you out of a tight situation. 

What made the prayer of Hannah to receive an answer she had prayed for many years was because at that last moment she included a vow in her prayer. She made a firm and dedicated promise to God which she would fulfil after God grants her petition.

In my personal life, I have made several vows before God and there is not one of such prayers that didn't receive an answer. I have been in tight situations where there was absolutely no way out. 

In most of those situations even a simple prayer of faith didn't work at all. There are moments where you can conclude that no prayer is going to work here and you can be justified if you doubt God at such moments. 

There was a time when I had done everything that is humanly possible to come out of a situation and I had prayed and fasted with faith, but still there was no miracle. 

At such moments I turn to a vow, especially if I am really desperate for an answer. 

How To Make A Vow That Works

When you make a vow, you first of all consider the nature of your situation. Are you desperately in need of God's intervention? Have you tried all that you can and you are now at the end of yourself? Have you prayed and applied all faith but still there is no answer? 

Do you have something that you know God requires from you but you haven't been walking in that perfect will of God? 

If you strongly feel you haven't fulfilled a certain obligation towards God. Then that will be your reason for making a vow before God. 

The bible says Hannah was barren because God had closed her womb. This was the reason why she went to Shiloh countless times but still seeing no breakthrough. God knew that she wasn't ready to give her son to Him if she were to give birth. 

Elkanah, her husband, was a Levite from the tribe of Kohath (Compare the genealogy from 1 Chronicles 6:33-38 & 1 Samuel 1:1). Thus, he needed to have been doing the work of God at the Tabernacle with his children.

We have no record of Peninah's children (co-wife with Hannah) doing the work of God. It meant Elkanah and his children were out of God's will as Levites. They weren't dedicated to God and I am sure Hannah's children would follow suit. 

In those days people never obeyed the voice of God. The bible says the voice of God was very rare in those days (1Samuel 3:1). Many Levites and Priests were backslided and there was no one dedicated to hearing God. Even Eli the Priest's children, who worked at the house of God, never feared God.

God had to close Hannah's womb because He knew Hannah would give birth to a Levite and still fail to train him in the ways of God for ministry or dedicate him to ministry just like other children of Elkanah. I am sure Hannah knew this in her heart.

When she had tried all forms of prayer, fastings and even offering sacrifices at Shiloh; she discovered that it had all failed. 

She had to desperately make a vow to God and promise to fulfill her obligation of dedicating her child to God's work.

As soon as she made the vow, behold, a great miracle happened, the unexpected happened, and she conceived Samuel. 


There is no quick way of getting an emergency answer to prayers than making a vow


By

Munashe Soka 


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