12. All vows are for the glory of God. Have you intentionally kept away from fulfilling such vows? Are you in the habit of making vows frequently?

“Let nothing hinder you from paying a vow promptly, and do not wait until death to be released from it. Before making a vow, prepare yourself; do not be like one who puts the Lord to the test.” (Sirach 18:22-23)

“The one who swears many oaths is full of iniquity and the scourge will not leave his house. If he swears in error his sin remains on him, and if he disregards it, he sins doubly; if he swears a false oath, he will not be justified for his house will be filled with calamities. There is a manner of speaking comparable to death; may it never be found in the inheritance of Jacob! Such conduct will be far from the Godly and they will wallow in sins.” (Sirach 23:11,12)

“And they came, everyone whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the sacred vestments.” (Exodus 35:21)

“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not postpone fulfilling it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you would incur guilt. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not incur guilt. Whatever your lips utter, you must diligently perform, just as you have freely vowed to the Lord your God with your own mouth.” (Deuteronomy 23:21-23)

11. Have you scorn falsely in the name of the Lord or the Bible or made others to do so? Have you taken the name of the Lord in vain?

“Do not accustom your mouth to oaths, not habitually utter the name of the Holy One; for as a servant who is constantly under scrutiny will not lack bruises, so also the person who always swears and utters the Name will never be cleansed from sin. The one who swears many oaths is full of iniquity, and the scourge will not leave his house. If he swears in error, his sin remains on him, and if he disregard it, he sins doubly; if he swears a false oath, he will not be justified, for his house will be filled with calamities.” (Sirach 23:9-11)

10. Have you tired to seek favours of men more than God? To please men have you acted disregarding God?

“Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10)

8. Have you been irresponsive to the church or its ministry by not offering financial support or tithes?

“Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, “How are we robbing you?” In your tithes and offerings! You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me the whole nation of you! Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you and overflowing blessing. I will rebuke the locust for you, so that it will not destroy the produce of your soil; and you vine in the field shall not be barren, says the Lord of hosts. Then all nations will count you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.”

(Malachi 3:8-12)

7. Have you neglected your duties in maintaining the house of the Lord and its surrounding?

“Thus says the Lord of the Host: these people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the Lords house. Then the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai saying: Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? Now therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: consider how you have fared, you have own much and harvested little; you Drink, but you never have enough, you eat but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves but no one is warm, and you that earn wages to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the Lord of hosts: consider how you fared. Go up to the hills and bring wood and built the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Says the Lord of Hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses. Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and animals, and on all their labors.” (Hagai 1:2-11)

“The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found the people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the moneychangers seated at their Tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coin of the money space changes and over turned their tables. Out of here! Stop making my father’s houses a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, zeal for your house will consume me.” (John 2:13-17)

2. Doubting God’s eternal protection and love, have you gone behind black magic, occult, sorcery, etc or encouraged others to go for these?

“if you will only heed his every commandment that am commanding that I am commanding you today-loving the lord your god, and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul-then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil; and he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat your fill. Take care, or you will be seduced in to turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them, for then the anger of the lord will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 11: 13- 17)

“if prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among your and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declared by them take place, and they says, “let us follow other gods” (whom you have not know) “and let us serve them , ” (Deuteronomy 13:1.2)

“if any turn to mediums and wizards, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them, and will cut them off from the people. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holly; for I am the lord; I sanctify you. ” (Leviticus 20:6-8)