VOW /PROMISE TAKING

 WHAT IS PROMISE AND VOW ,IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE?
  A PROMISE is a committment by someone to do or not do something.
  A VOW is a promise solemnly made to GOD. The promise is binding, and so differs from a simple resolution which is a present purpose to do or omit certain things in the future. As between man and man, a promise pledges the faith of the man who makes it; he promises, wishing some other person to trust him, and depend upon him. By his fidelity he shows himself worthy of trust ; If he breaks his word, he loses credit, By causing the other a disappointment which is destructive of mutual confidence — and, like faith, mutual confidence is important to society, for the natural law condemns all conduct which shakes this confidence. These statement do not apply to a promise made to God; it is impossible for me to deceive God as to my present intention, and He knows whether I shall be constant in the future:

C C C 2101 -2013 teaches about vow,it says:a VOW IS A DELIBERATE AND FREE PROMISE MADE TO GOD CONCERNING A POSSIBLE AND BETTER GOOD WHICH MUST BE FULFILLED BY REASON OF THE VIRTUE OF RELIGIOUS.
   CANNON LAW 1191: VOW IS AN ACT OF DEVOTION IN WHICH CHRISTIAN DEDICATE HIMSELF TO GOD OR PROMISE HIM SOME GOOD WORK.
                        TYPE OF VOW
1. SOLEMN VOW :WHICH MUST BE IN PUBLIC, GIVEN BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH AND ORIGINALY THEY ARE INDISSOLUBLE .EG VOW IN ORDINATION,PRIESTHOOD,MATRIMONY, BAPTISM ETC.
2. SIMPLY VOW: MOSTLY PRIVATE,AND IT CAN BE COMMUTED.1196-1197 CANNON LAW:STIPULATED THAT THE PERSON WHO MAKES A PRIVATE VOW CAN COMMUTE THE WORK PROMISE BY THE VOW INTO A BETTER OR EQUAL GOOD BY ONE WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY,SUCH AS PRIEST.ETC. ACT18:18,21:23-24.THE APOSTLE PAUL SHOW CONCERN ON FULFILLING VOW MADE,IN NUMBER 6 :12-19. PURPOSE OF VOW IN RELIGIOUS LIFE. Judges 11 : 1-42
*To be more closer to GOD
*To commite onceself to GOD
* To obtain favore from God
* moral in prayer.
                   BIBLE 'S vIEW ON VOW/PROMISE
Numbers 30:2 If a man vows a vow to theLord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth
. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
  Psalm 89:3 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
  Matthew 5:37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but ispatient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Numbers 30:1-2 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This IS what the LORD HAS commanded. If a man vows a vow to theLord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Matthew 5:33 “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.
            HOW TO FULFILL VOW MADE TO GOD.
* BY CONSTANT CALLING THEM TO YOUR MIND. * BY TOTAL CONVICTION TO FULFILL THEM.
* BY KNOWING THE REWARDS/implication of not fulfilling them
. IMPLICATION OF NOT FULFILLING YOUR VOW.