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!
Say No to Camel-Swallowing
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
09/11/2025
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Matthew 23:24 (NIV) “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.”
The Pharisees were one messed-up group of teachers. They had everything backwards. They taught and emphasized things that they thought were important that at the same time were in violation of the very scriptures that they taught. For example, they gave their tithes, but they neglected justice, mercy and faithfulness (Matthew 23:23). They majored on the minors. Jesus also called them “whitew
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Only One Altar
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
09/09/2025
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Joshua 22:10-12 (NIV) When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan. And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side, the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.
When the Israelites had finally finished conquering all the people of the l
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The One That Wandered Off
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
09/04/2025
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Luke 15:3-4 (NIV) Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?”
Jesus asked a question of the disciples while He was teaching them. He was talking about one sheep that belonged to someone that owned a hundred sheep. That one sheep wandered away. Jesus stated something in this parable that He saw as obvious. “Doesn’t he lea
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The Power of Repentance
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
09/02/2025
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Jonah 3:10 (NIV) When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
One of the things that God is not given credit for by unbelievers is His great mercy. That mercy is extended to any person, no matter what they have done, who repents. That’s what had Jonah upset enough to try to foolishly run away from God. God had told Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh in Assyria. There was so muc
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Your Part in Your Salvation Story
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/28/2025
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2 Peter 3:13-14 (NIV) But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.
Without a doubt, the Word of God is very clear about the fact that salvation is a free gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). We cannot work for our salvation. God, in His infinite mercy, came to rescue us by com
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Be Sure-Footed
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/26/2025
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2 Peter 1:10-11 (NIV) Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I used to think that living the life that Jesus spoke about was not possible on this side of eternity. I thought that there was just no way that anyone could live like Jesus did. But then I would read the challeng
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Things Revealed
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/21/2025
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Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV) The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
As human beings, we want to know things. As a matter of fact, we want to know everything. We don’t like being in the dark about things. That is why the Word of God is so challenging to so many people. Many turn away from God and from His Word because they don’t understand everything, and there
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A Debt That Cannot Be Cancelled
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/19/2025
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Romans 13:8 (NIV) Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing this devotional. I did a search on my computer to make sure that I had not already written about the subject above and the computer pulled up a student loan agreement that I had signed years ago. That just reiterated what I already knew, which is that a student debt is a debt tha
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How to Get More Joy
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/14/2025
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John 15:11 (NIV) I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Everyone in this life strives to be happy, but happiness is very elusive and fragile because it is totally dependent on what happens. If good things happen, we are happy. If bad things happen, we get anxious and sad. Bad things outweigh good things. For example, if you had the means to buy that new car you always wanted, that would make you happy. But if two days later you
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Rooted!
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/12/2025
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Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV) So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
If there is one thing that I've learned since moving from a big city to a more country-like setting, it's about root systems. I knew nothing about plants, flowers or weeds for that matter but having them all around me now, I can appreciate why the Word of G
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Know Whom You Have Believed
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/07/2025
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2 Timothy 1:12 (NIV) That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
The Apostle Paul came to know Jesus in a very unusual way. While on his way to persecute Christians and throw them in jail, Jesus appeared to Him. The brightness of His appearing knocked Paul off of his horse and made him blind. After realizing that he was going a
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Be Careful Who You Listen To
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
08/05/2025
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Deuteronomy 13:1-3 (NIV) If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
We live in an age where we
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He Understands
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/31/2025
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Deuteronomy 10:1-2 (NIV) At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”
It must have been so frustrating for Moses to deal with all of the exiles that came out of Egypt when the Lord used him to deliver them from slavery. You would think that they would be
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Math Not Allowed
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/29/2025
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Deuteronomy 4:2 (NIV) Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
In life, there are many times when we need to add or subtract from the things that we say. Sometimes you need to add context to something you've said and sometimes you need to take back (or take away) something that we have said in haste or that wasn't true. We add and subtract from things that we have stated all throughout our liv
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Being Taught What to Say
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
07/24/2025
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Exodus 4:11-12 (NIV) The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
When God appeared to Moses in the burning bush, He told him that He had chosen him to deliver His people from slavery in Egypt. This was shocking news to Moses and he felt totally unqualified to do it. He gave God the excuse that he had a s
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