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!
He's Always There
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/09/2026
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Psalm 139:7-8 (NIV) Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
I have spoken to many believers who lament the fact that they feel that God is far away from them. I used to feel the same way until the Lord enlightened my understanding of His presence. Because of our fallen state, our feelings and emotions many times are not stable. Sometimes our thoughts and ou
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How You Can Love Jesus
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/07/2026
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John 14:26 (ESV) But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
The Word of God commands us to love God and many people never figure out how to do that. Many who are sincere about their relationship with Jesus do their best to obey His Word because they believe that He is the Son of God who came into the world to die for our sins. But to love Jesus from the heart
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Celebrating Freedom
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/02/2026
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2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
In a couple of days, we will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country's freedom. That may sound like a lot of time, but compared to other countries that have been around for well over a thousand years, we are still in the baby stages as a country. The question is, are we truly free in the United States of America? Based on the scripture verse above, I would
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Because You Prayed
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/30/2026
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Isaiah 37:21-22 (NIV) Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: “Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.”
King Sennacherib of Assyria was used to winning every battle that he fought and had become very powerful. Next on his list of conquests was
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Surely This Is Our God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/25/2026
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Isaiah 25:9 (NIV) In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
In Isaiah 25, Isaiah records a prophesy about a future time when the Lord will wipe the tears from all faces and remove the people's disgrace from the earth. Then the verse above follows, prophesying that the people will rejoice and be glad that God is their God. But as we pause to rememb
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The Best Way to Let the World Know About Jesus
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
06/23/2026
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John 17:22-23 (NIV) “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
Jesus’ salvation plan included bringing unity among those who would come to know Him as Lord and Savior. He said that it would be through the display of this unity among His followers that the world would know that
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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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