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!
For the Sake of You
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/29/2025
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Genesis 26:24 (NIV) That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
Abraham is known as the father of our faith. The Bible tells us that the Lord appeared to Abraham and told him to leave everything he ever knew, including his country and his relatives and to go to a land that He was going to show hi
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Standing the Test
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/27/2025
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Romans 16:10a (NIV) Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test.
I never liked tests when I was in school. Not many students do, but they are a sure way to see how much of what has been taught has been absorbed and learned. There are many things that test us in life. Sometimes our strength is tested in certain situations. Sometimes it’s our common sense and at other times, our ingenuity is tested. Those are all areas that are important. But there is one test
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He Watches Over You
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/22/2025
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Psalm 121:5-8 (NIV) The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
I was recently at the beach with my grandchildren and I found out that they all love to be in the water. This is especially true of my grandson, Gabriel, who is four years old. From the momen
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Getting the Prize
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/20/2025
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1 Corinthians 9:24 (NIV) Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
I have always loved prizes, no matter how small. Back when I was a child, my mom and dad would buy cereal boxes that had a prize inside. Of course, I couldn’t wait till the box was not as full to make it easier to get to the prize, so I would dig into the box and make a mess trying to find it. Then there were the times when we wou
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No Condemnation!
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/15/2025
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Romans 8:1 (NIV) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...
To be condemned is to be declared guilty, to be doomed or to be declared as incurable. It is a horrible experience to be condemned. You are condemned when you do things so terrible that the only solution is to exact punishment on you. Many people in society have been condemned either to life in prison or worse, condemned to die. In this country, those things happen to people who h
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Hope that Overcomes Despair
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/13/2025
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Lamentations 3:21-26 (NIV) Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
When you read the first part of the third chapter o
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Our Jailbreaking God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/08/2025
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Acts 12:7-8 (NIV) And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. 8 And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”
King Herod was feeling full of himself as he got kudos from the people when he had the Apostle James killed with the sword
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Our One-Stop God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/06/2025
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Philippians 4:19 (NIV) And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
In life, there are always things that we need to purchase for everyday needs. We need to buy food, clothing, appliances for our home, cleaning products, toiletries, etc. Then there are the things that we don’t necessarily need but that we want. That’s why it’s so nice and convenient that we have supercenters such as Walmart. Just about anything that you can thin
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The Amazing, Inseparable Love of God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
05/01/2025
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Romans 8:38-39 (NIV) For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There are a plethora of reasons why being separated from God is a frightening thought. To begin with, to be separated from God is to be separated from life, because He is life (John 14:
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Lay Your Burden Down
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/29/2025
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2 Kings 4:20-21, 25 (NIV) After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out. So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite!”
Elisha was a prophet who had been commissioned by the Prophet Elijah at God’
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When God Rejoices
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/24/2025
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Jeremiah 32:41 (NIV) I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
There is absolutely no question that our God is a good God. The Bible states that multiple times. But it goes way beyond just good. In the scripture above where God says that He will rejoice in doing "them" good, the "them" is none other than the people of Judah that had refused to turn from their wicked ways and were now being exiled to Babylon. Ju
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The Aftermath
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/22/2025
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Matthew 27:51-52 (NIV) At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.
The moment that Jesus gave up His life on the cross, monumental things happened as described in the verses above. The curtain separating the Most Holy Place from everyone was torn completely from top to bottom. Then there was an earthquake unlike any ot
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He Is Risen
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/17/2025
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Matthew 28:6 (NIV) He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
Resurrection Sunday is right around the corner and that day in history stands out as the most significant thing that happened that gives everyone an opportunity for a restart in life that leads to life forevermore. No longer do I need to fret about all the mistakes and bad judgements that I have made in my life. No longer do I have to walk around feeling guilt and shame f
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Fighting Fire with Prayer
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/15/2025
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Nehemiah 4:7-9 (NIV) But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.
One of the tactics that is recommended when someone is under any kind of attack is to "
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When the Church Prays
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/10/2025
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Acts 12:5 (NIV) So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
During the time when the early Church was growing in numbers, King Herod began arresting Christians with the intent to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, executed by the sword. When he saw that this pleased the people, he arrested Peter, intending to have a mock trial and then executing him as well. But then something miraculous happened when the Church began t
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