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Jesus at the Center
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/25/2024
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Joshua 3:17 (NIV) The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
After wandering around the wilderness for forty years because of their stubborn hearts, the Israelites were finally ready to cross over the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land. Just one more obstacle remained, and that was that at that time of
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Don't Let Your Heart Stray
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/23/2024
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2 Chronicles 16:12 (NIV) In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians.
When we first learn of King Asa in 2 Chronicles 14, we read that he did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord. He made a lot of needed reforms and removed all sorts of idols from the land of Judah. He commanded the people to seek the Lord and
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What You Are Not Doing
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/18/2024
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1 Samuel 12:23 (NIV) “As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right.”
When we think about how we should be living our lives as followers of Christ, we usually think of the things that we shouldn't be doing because they are either sinful or can lead us into sin. It takes us a while to learn that we can't overcome our sinful nature by our own efforts and that it takes power to ov
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The Love that Expels the Love of the World
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/16/2024
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1 John 2:15-16 (NIV) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
One of the things that I love about God's Word is that it pulls no punches. It speaks the truth and then let's you decide whether you will believe it and then live by it. It also is very sobering and ch
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Opened Minds
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/10/2024
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Luke 24:44-45 (NIV) He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
The disciples had a tough time understanding Jesus. A lot of what Jesus said went way over their heads. They must have been mesmerized and bewildered at the same time as they watched Him perform great miracles and a
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An Example Behind the Scenes
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/09/2024
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1 Kings 3:6 (NIV) Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.”
Solomon had a now very well-known encounter with God where the Lord told him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you." As we now know, Solomon asked for wisdom to govern God's people and the Lord wa
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As It Turned Out
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/04/2024
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Ruth 2:3 (NIV) So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.
In life, we have strange happenings where people, places and time coincide together creating what we call coincidences. A coincidence is an occurrence of two or more events happening at the same time by what most people consider mere chance. I have come to learn that for a follower of Chr
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Life After the Resurrection
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/02/2024
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Acts 1:3 (NIV) During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.
This past Sunday, we celebrated Resurrection Sunday, which is the day that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The resurrection proved that Jesus is who said that He was and that He had power over death, the grave and everything else, fo
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When Jesus Didn't Prove Himself
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/28/2024
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Matthew 27:38-40 (NIV) Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”
In a few days, we will celebrate Easter, known to followers of Christ as Resurrection Sunday. It is the greatest celebration that we as believers celebrate because it i
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More Than Talk
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/25/2024
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1 Corinthians 4:20 (NIV) For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
Back in the days when I spent mostly all of my free time on the basketball courts in Brooklyn New York, guys liked to talk a lot. Young men enjoyed intimidating one another about how good they were on the court and how badly they were going to beat someone in a basketball game. Of course, it was just talk. I used to let everyone talk instead of engaging them. I felt that if I was going to
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The Inner Circle
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/21/2024
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John 15:15 (NIV) I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
In life, you meet a lot of people and you make a good number of friends. Some of your friends are really not friends at all (like your 700 friends on Facebook), some of them are casual friends, and some of them are closer friends. Then there are the very few who are i
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Your Mightiest Weapon
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/19/2024
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2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (NIV) For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
The Word of God is clear that the fiercest opposition that we face as the people of God is from the spiritual realm. It is power beyond our imagination that we are up against including rulers, principalities and evil spiritual forces. By ourselves, we are
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Who Knows About You and God?
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/14/2024
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2 Kings 5:4-6 (NLT) So Naaman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said. “Go and visit the prophet,” the king of Aram told him. “I will send a letter of introduction for you to take to the king of Israel.” So Naaman started out, carrying as gifts 750 pounds of silver, 150 pounds of gold, and ten sets of clothing. The letter to the king of Israel said: “With this letter I present my servant Naaman. I want you to heal him of his leprosy.”
Naaman was the commander
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A Message of Holiness
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/12/2024
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Joshua 5:14-15 (NIV) “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
Joshua was just about ready to go up to fight Israel’s first battle, which was against the city of Jericho, when he encount
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Concentrate on the Revealed Things
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/07/2024
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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.
I have met people who say that they want to go deeper in God. They want to learn more about the mysteries of the Word of God and want to dive deeper into the supernatural realm. So they leave where they are to go on a quest to be someplace where their desire to go deeper is fed. Many times, what
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