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!
Occasional Victory
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/11/2025
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2 Chronicles 13:18 (NIV) The Israelites were subdued on that occasion, and the people of Judah were victorious because they relied on the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
The people of God faced many enemies in their time in the Promised Land and sometimes, they even fought against each other. Because of Solomon’s sin in turning to other gods, the Lord said that the kingdom would be divided during his son’s, King Rehoboam’s reign. Jeroboam rebelled against Rehoboam and too
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The Missing Key
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/06/2025
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Luke 11:52 (NIV) “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Jesus was constantly rebuking and correcting the Pharisees, who were the priests and religious teachers who taught the people the Law of God. Jesus spoke seven woes to these religious leaders and the one above is the first of them. Jesus here accuses them of taking away the key to knowledge from t
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Enabled to Understand
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/03/2025
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1 Chronicles 28:19 (NIV) “All this,” David said, “I have in writing as a result of the Lord’s hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.”
When I buy something that needs to be assembled, I cringe a little as I take a look at the instructions. Sometimes, the instructions are so detailed that my eyes glaze over for a couple of minutes until I am able to talk myself into thinking that I can get it done. I can just imagine what David must have been
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Holy in Every Way
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/27/2025
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1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NLT) Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.
There are a lot of things that Jesus said and things that are written for us in the scriptures through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that are hard for us to understand fully. For example, the concept of you and I being holy is
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What is Not Bread
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/25/2025
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Isaiah 55:2 (NIV) Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Once, when Jesus was warning the disciples to be on their guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, they thought that He was saying that because they forgot to bring bread (Matthew 16:6-7). They totally missed the point. Jesus was speaking about the teaching of the Pharisees and not about fo
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Pray Often
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/20/2025
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Luke 5:16 (NIV) But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Do you pray every day and if you do, how many times a day do you pray? Unfortunately, a poll showed that only two percent of Christians are satisfied with their prayer life. That means that many are not praying regularly. When you don't pray regularly, the quality of your Christian life suffers. Because of our sinful nature, we are in desperate need of more of God in our lives. Without His daily help and
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Know Who Jesus Is
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/18/2025
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Luke 8:24-25 (NIV) The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."
It’s amazing to me that the disciples continued to be astonished at the things that Jesus did. Don’t get me wrong, th
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Delivered for His Glory
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/13/2025
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2 Kings 19:19 (NIV) “Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”
When the king of Assyria came against King Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem, Hezekiah went in the right direction and asked God to intervene and rescue them. God is a compassionate and merciful God and He delivers us because He loves us. But there is also an underlying and most important reason why He does answer our prayers fo
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No Time to Talk
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/11/2025
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Isaiah 36:20-21 (NIV) Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
In life, there’s a time to talk and a time to be silent. It’s good to know when you should speak and when you should be quiet. The Word of God teaches that when we talk too much, we talk our way into sin and
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Lasting Words
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/06/2025
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Mark 13:31 (NIV) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Mostly everything that exists changes over time. Things evolve, including science and knowledge. There were ways that we used to think about the earth that we now know are incorrect. There are things that people swore were exact science years ago that today are looked at as foolish. There are food items that dieticians and nutritionists used to tell us that we needed in our diet that in tod
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The Wrong Way to Amaze Jesus
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/04/2025
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Mark 6:5-6a (NIV) He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.
After all that Jesus has done and all the mercy and grace that He has shown to me, my desire is to not only worship Him, obey Him and do whatever He asks me to do, but I also want to get His attention by my level of faith and commitment to Him. I want to amaze Jesus by be
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Where Jesus Belongs
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
01/30/2025
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Psalm 119:11 (NIV) I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119 is a psalm that doesn’t have an officially known author but that some scholars believe was written by King David. The psalm is all about God’s Word and in the verses above, the psalmist reveals where the Word is most effective and activated: in your heart. The proclamation is that if you have God’s Word in your heart, it will keep you from sin. I have found this to be absolute
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Conquering Your Weak Flesh
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
01/28/2025
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Matthew 26:41 (NIV) “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
One of the things that will be with us until we leave this earth and see Jesus face to face is temptation. Temptation is a constant companion if you are alive and breathing on earth. Even the Apostle Paul struggled with overcoming his flesh and wrote about it in Romans 7:15-25. He spoke about doing the things that he didn’t want to do (Romans 7:16) a
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Through the Watches of the Night
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
01/23/2025
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Psalm 63:6 (NIV) On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.
When I go to bed at night, the last thing I do is to sign off with my Lord Jesus. I have learned to stay connected with Him throughout the day (pray continually - 1 Thessalonians 5:17), but I love to end my day with one more time in prayer to cap off the day. I usually sleep for a couple of hours, wake up and then go back to sleep but sometimes, it doesn’t work out that way. Sometime
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Immediate Help in Time of Trouble
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
01/21/2025
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Psalm 50:15 (NIV) “And call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
I had the opportunity to travel with a singing group to Taiwan where we were doing some evangelism meetings. In-between meetings we were able to go on a tour of some of the areas of Taiwan, which included a visit to a Buddhist temple. Buddhist temples feature a large number of deities. As we made our way around the temple, we witnessed people offering food items to very larg
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