Resolve, Commit, Vow 
 

Seal the deal: 
 
Resolve: iVow to make a firm decision about. 
 
Commitment: an agreement or pledge to do something. 
Vow: a solemn promise or assertion; specifically : one by which a person is 
bound to an act, service, or condition 
 
Make a FIRM DECISION! Commit yourself to it! Then Bind yourself to your 
decision! The only thing that will make or break the above....is your STABILITY! 
 

Decision can be changed,

Agreements can be modified,

but Vows are binding! 
 

The major reason that marriages end so bitterly, is because the VOWS were broken. When we make binding promises and agreements, you are tied to 
them. As time goes on, the two literally grow together, becoming one in everything. When the VOW is broken, the very foundation is shattered, 
which now leaves everything above it vulnerable to fall. If you’ve ever seen a building collapse, you know how big of a mess it can make. Something that once appeared strong, solid, and sound, know breaks apart piece by piece, brick by brick. Some pieces shatter as they hit the ground, showing 
how weak they actually are apart, in contrast to how strong they were together. 

The same holds true when you make a vow! The power of agreement with God’s word is phenomenal. Just imagine sitting at the table with God, and he presents you a contract. As you read it line by line, you see all of the pros and cons to the transaction. You know everything up front. No fine print or hidden clauses, just a simply worded contract that spells out the agreement between the two of you. 
 

Here is the contract:
Deuteronomy 28 
New International Version (NIV) 
 

Pros 

If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. 4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your 
flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him. 
Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.  The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

 
This contract sounds so good doesn’t it… Just reading it makes me want to 
make a firm decision, and to commit to it right now! But….WAIT! Never 
commit to anything that you haven’t read thoroughly!

 

READ THE ENTIRE CONTRACT!