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!
Life From the Fountain
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/16/2026
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Psalm 36:9 (NIV) For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
There are about 500 people who have been cryogenically preserved and are currently in storage, with thousands more people signed up for the procedure. These people have done that with the hopes that sometime in the future when technology is more advanced, they can be revived to live again. The people who do this obviously don’t believe in God, who is the one from whom all life emanates. No ma
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Personal Wonders
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/14/2026
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Psalm 40:5 (NIV) Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.
David was a man whose heart was after God. He was a man who sought the Lord with all of His heart and because He did, He experienced God’s love as well as His awesome power. God used him to defeat many of Israel’s enemies. As a matter of fact, David never lost a battle and he a
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God's Bread for You
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/09/2026
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John 6:33 (NIV) "For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
The crowd that had received the miracle of the multiplied bread and fish were looking for Jesus after He left the area. They finally found Him in Capernaum. They asked Him when he had gotten there, seemingly to start a conversation. But Jesus saw right through them and told them that He knew they were only looking for Him because He had given them bread. They then as
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He Does It Himself
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/07/2026
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1 Peter 5:10-11 (NIV) And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I love the Word of God because it never tries to hide inconveniences or the fact that as followers of Christ, we will face trouble. Jesus told us so Himself (John 16:33). The verses above bring everything full circle. First, it high
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He Has Risen!
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
04/02/2026
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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.”
While Jesus was here on earth, He did many amazing and miraculous things that people had never seen or experienced before. He healed everyone who came to Him to be healed, no matter what it was that they were suffering. He opened blind eyes, enabled the lame to walk, healed lepers from their leprosy, cast out demons from the demon-possessed and even raised dead people ba
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The Cornerstone
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/31/2026
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Luke 20:17-18 (NIV) Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
A cornerstone is the first stone set in the construction of a foundation, essential for aligning the rest of the structure. Jesus, in rebuking the Pharisees and teachers of the law, quoted Psalm 118:22
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Watch What You Value
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/26/2026
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Luke 16:15b (NIV) What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
Jesus was teaching the people about being careful when it came to the subject of money. He told them that they could not love both God and money. You will serve one or the other, because you can’t serve both. The Word of God also tells us that the love of money is a root to all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). The Pharisees heard Jesus teaching this to the people and began sneering at Jesus. Imagine the
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Fighting for Your Family
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/24/2026
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Nehemiah 4:14 (NIV) After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Nehemiah was the cupbearer to King Artaxerxes, the king of Persia. Nehemiah had learned that Jerusalem was in bad shape, with the walls having been broken down and the gates burned. This was a ve
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The Heart of Jesus Toward You
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/19/2026
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Luke 7:13 (NIV) When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.”
When you are busy and are on a mission, you don’t have time for things that are not on your schedule. You have to stay on point so that you can keep up with everything that needs to be accomplished that day. Having said that, I think that we can all agree that Jesus was not only on a mission but was on one that was the most important one that anyone can think of, which was to save the
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Courage Because of the Hand of God
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/17/2026
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Ezra 7:28b (NIV) Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra was a priest and a scribe who led the second wave of exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem. He was going there to teach the people about the law of the Lord (the Word of God). The trip was a dangerous one because the nine-hundred-mile journey that would take them four months to complete was infested with bandits and robbers. But Ezra and the peop
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When Many Are Few
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/12/2026
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2 Chronicles 24:24 (NIV) Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the Lord delivered into their hands a much larger army. Because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, judgment was executed on Joash.
Joash was a confusing and tragic figure in the Bible. He was spared from being murdered by his grandmother, Athalia, through his father’s sister and brother-in-law’s intervention as they hid him away for six years. Athalia murdered her own gran
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The Better Way
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/10/2026
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Luke 10:41-42 (NIV) “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Have you ever thought of what it would be like if Jesus came physically to visit you in your home? Would you clean the house from top to bottom? Would you go out and get the best appetizers and snacks that you could think of? Would you plan to prepare the
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The Occasion of Victory
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/05/2026
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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.
There were many kings that Israel and Judah had in the years of their residing in the Promised Land. All of Israel’s kings were evil (the ten northern tribes). There wasn’t a godly king among them in all their history. Judah didn’t fare too well either, with only eight out of the twenty kings in their his
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Priestly Service
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
03/03/2026
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1 Peter 2:9 (NIV) But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood...
During the time of the temple and the animal sacrifices that were made for the sins of the people, there were priests who were designated by birth to handle all of that as well as all the requirements of the law of God. The only way into the priesthood was to be a descendant of Aaron, the first to be chosen as high priest by God. While there were other Levites who worked around the temple doing other dutie
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The Road to the Valley of Berakah
by: Pastor Joey Vazquez
02/26/2026
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2 Chronicles 20:25-26 (NIV) So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, where they praised the Lord. This is why it is called the Valley of Berakah to this day.
Three armies had joined together to try to destroy
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