The latest devotionals at Deep Waters Tabernacle
Here you'll find devotionals and encouraging words from the Word of God from our Senior Pastor and staff to help draw you closer to our beautiful Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Be blessed in Jesus' name!
Where Are You?
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/18/2026
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Genesis 3:8-9 (NIV) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
After Adam and Eve sinned by eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they hid from God. This shows how sin clouds your mind in that they thought that they could hide from their Creator. God, with great patience merc
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The World Is in His Hands
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/16/2026
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Isaiah 45:1, 4 (NIV) “This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut… For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.”
In the scripture above, God speaks through His prophet, Isaiah, about a king that He would appoint to
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An Unknown God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/11/2026
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Acts 17:23 (NIV) “For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.”
As the Apostle Paul was making his way around Greece, He came to Athens. There he found that the city was full of idols. As he spoke to the people about the one true God, he got into a conversation with some Greek philosopher
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Belonging Totally to Jesus
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/09/2026
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Romans 14:8 (NIV) If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
One of the things about being a follower of Christ that many Christians don’t fully realize is that when you repent and ask Jesus to forgive your sins and you receive Him into your heart and life, you then belong to Him...completely. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 tells us that we do not belong to ourselves because we were bought at a price. That
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The Control of Righteousness
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/04/2026
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Romans 6:20-22 (NIV) When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
When someone is acting crazy or behaving in a way that is not rational, we say that they are "out of control." But out of
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God's True Longing
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/02/2026
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Isaiah 30:18 (NIV) Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Most people in the world have a very distorted view of God. They see Him as either mean, scary, unfair, mostly always angry or unreasonable. None of those things are even close to being true regarding the God of our salvation. But unfortunately, many Christians don’t have it right either. While the
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No Time to Ask God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/28/2026
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1 Samuel 14:18-19 (NLT) Then Saul shouted to Ahijah, “Bring the ephod here!” For at that time Ahijah was wearing the ephod in front of the Israelites. But while Saul was talking to the priest, the confusion in the Philistine camp grew louder and louder. So Saul said to the priest, “Never mind; let’s get going!”
On day, Jonathan and his armor-bearer went down to the Philistine camp. The Philistines had once again come to make war with the armies of Israel. Saul was king then
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Just Seventy-Seven Times
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/26/2026
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Matthew 18:21-22 (NIV) Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
Jesus made very clear to His disciples the great importance of forgiving others. He made it clear that if we don’t forgive others, our Heavenly Father will not forgive us (Matthew 6:15). After Jesus spoke the words of the passage of scripture above
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The Wholeness of Touching Jesus
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/21/2026
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Matthew 14:35-35 (NIV) And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
When Jesus walked the streets of any of the towns and villages of Israel, many people followed and crowded around Him. Inevitably, the ones closest in proximity to Him came in contact with Him in one way or another. But n
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The Joy of the Treasure
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/19/2026
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Matthew 13:44 (NIV) “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.”
Joy is something that outshines happiness and there are times that only the word “joy” can be used to describe what we are feeling. A good example is when we experience the joy of being reunited with someone that we care about that we haven't seen in a while or the joy of spending precious m
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A Blessed Heritage
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/14/2026
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Psalm 61:5 (NIV) For you, God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
I have thanked the Lord many times for the heritage that I have of a mother who loved and served the Lord. My grandmother did the same and I believe it goes further back than that. My dad wasn’t saved until I was fifteen years old, but my mother’s faith and love of God more than made up for that fact. My sister and I have always considered ourselves to have been br
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Making it Personal
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/12/2026
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Psalm 63:1 (NIV) You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
There is a big difference in the way that you relate to things that belong to you and things that belong to others. You are very familiar with the things that are yours and many times tentative with things that don’t belong to you. For example, I recently had to rent a car in another state to be able to get around. T
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It Is Well With the Righteous
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/07/2026
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Isaiah 3:10 (NIV) Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
As was their pattern, Jerusalem and Judah had fallen into sin and wickedness and they were not listening to the messages from the prophets that the Lord had sent to correct them. Because of that, God, through the Prophet Isaiah, decreed that judgement was coming. The Lord rebuked the elders and the leaders who instead of being good examples to the people were the ve
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Made to Be Still
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/05/2026
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Psalm 46:10 (NIV) He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
One of the hardest things for us as human beings to do is to be still. It has gotten worse over the years with so much media being thrust at us and with our constant drive to stay connected at all times. There used to be a time when if you wanted to be uninterrupted because you were having an important time with your family or friends, you coul
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Finding Your Heart's Love
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/30/2026
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Song of Songs 3:3-4 (NIV) The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?” Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves.
The Song of Songs is a book in the Word of God that is frequently skipped or misunderstood due to its poetic and explicit imagery. But it really is an allegory of the amazing and incredible love story of God and the people that He created and loves, known in scripture as the bride of Ch
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