What are you believing God for this year? Recently, as I was waiting on the Lord, He began to remind me of the power of a vow. I remember, in 1978 as I stood by my brother’s death bed, I made a vow. I told the devil, “Devil, you will pay for what you have done! I vow people will laugh at you all over the world!” I had no idea that God would give me a ministry of joy that would impact every continent of the world!

Rodney Howard Browne remembers crying out to God one day in 1985, walking up a fairway of a golf course in South Africa. I knew that God had more planned for me than what I had seen so far and I told Him that if He would get me out of where I was, that I would give away what I had to the nations of the world. Two years ago, I happened to be on the same golf course, playing the same hole, and the Lord reminded me, then and there, of the desperate vow I had made nearly 20 years before! As I looked back over the time between then and now, I was both humbled and awed by what God has done. God does not take vows lightly!

Rodney Howard Browne vowed, when Kelly died in my arms—100 million souls and $1 billion into world missions! The devil will pay for what he has done!

What are you believing for? Make a sincere, heartfelt vow this year, 2008 and let’s believe God for a supernatural breakthrough in your life.

Look what happened in Genesis 28:20-22. After Jacob had seen the vision of the ladder that reached to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it, he poured oil on the rock that was his pillow, turning it into an altar, and then he made a vow:

• If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go
• If God will give me food to eat and clothing to wear
• So that I may come again to my father’s house in peace
• Then the Lord shall be my God
• This stone which I have set up as a monument shall be a sacred place to me

Jacob vowed that if God would do these things for him, he would give a tenth of all of his increase back to God.

God is not asking us to build an altar of stone and pour oil on it. However—by way of example—this is a ministry that the Lord is using to bring in a mighty harvest of souls. Souls are very precious to the Lord and we bless and honor the Lord by pouring our oil—our finances—onto something that is sacred and precious to the Lord!