​Job 1-3
When I sit back and think about the issues in my life, I can truly be thankful to God. Not because everything is perfect but because God sustains me through them. Bills still pile up, health is not what it should be, people still talk behind my back, and the list goes on and on.
In the book of Job we find a man with alot of problems of which mine seem so little by comparison, but one thing the scripture says is that in all of those things he did not sin. Wow, because that is not always me.
Yes he did get discouraged even to the point that he asked God is he was born only to be miserable. My take away from the first 3 chapters of Job is that we can Praise through the storm, because our Praise-worship-trust in God is not external it is internal.
When the heart is weak Praise, when the soul is drained worship, and when in doubt trust.
Be blessed, Pastor D

One of the realist revelations I ever received from the Lord was talking to the Him (more like complaining) about my time in a spiritual desert.


I wanted something new, I needed something new but I was in a spiritual wilderness and desert. Then God spoke:


You can't get a river in the desert unless you are in the desert and you can't get a roadway in the wilderness unless you are in the wilderness.


Ouch, not quite what I wanted to hear but what I needed to hear. You see my miracle was coming but it came by way of the desert place because I couldn't accept the new until I was tired of the old.


Be blessed today, Pastor D.

 usWe are now a few days into a new year and with every new year comes with it new possibilities, new hopes, new challenges, and new blessing. For many this is a chance to start fresh-with a clean slate. People have begun the process of trying to fulfill their New Years Resolutions.

A resolution can be defined as a firm decision to do or not to do something.

New Years Resolutions begin with the want or desire to do something different and turns into us not doing all that we set out to do. So what ends up happening is we start the year with hope and end the year discouraged because perhaps we didn't fulfill everything we wanted; all the while saying next year will be different.

Lamentations 3:22-23 (NKJV)
22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness

My challenge for you is to make the "next year will be different" frame of mind into each day instead of each year. Make each morning new because scripture tells us that even though we may fail or fall ever so short-God's love and compassion for doesn't fail or fall short. 

As a matter of fact they are renewed each morning. What that tells me is that His love for you grows with each passing day. So my challenge for you is to make 2016 not just a new year, but a new day-each day. Each day will carry new possibilities, now hopes, new, challenges, new victories, and new blessing.

Serving God because He served me first,
​Pastor Daniel vasquez

 As we have begun a journey into 2015, hope for the future and new beginnings dominate our thoughts as we make Resolutions to be better, eat healthier, be more positive to name a few. As I hear people discuss their goals, I am reminded of a story found in Mark 5:25-34 about a woman who had been sick for 12 years.

The verses here tell us that she spent all that she had with no real positive results. She tried everything to get better and lost everything in the process. For 12 years she went to doctors, friends, healers, the church, and probably even tried home remedies and still nothing.

She just learned to live with it. It had become so apart of her that she probably couldn't even remember what it was like to live without it. Then one day she heard that Jesus was coming to town. "Could this be that Jesus that I have heard people talk about in the market? The One who performs miracles for people? I heard about how He calmed the storm on the sea the other day and how he turned water into wine and gave sight to the blind-could He do something for me?"

This was a woman at the end of her rope and probably felt that this was her last chance-if this doesn't work, then nothing will. So she gathered whatever strength she could muster and braved the crowds as they pushed and shoved with the hopes of at least seeing Jesus. She however, felt that looking at Him wasn't enough, "I have to meet Him, see Him, touch Him and beg Him to heal me! I hope and pray He will, but why would He I'm insignificant and nobody cares whether I live or die."

She soldiered on. She wasn't strong enough and was knocked down by those around her. At this time she had a choice to make, "I could either stay here and let this final chance slip away or I could fight and crawl on my knees towards my only hope."   

What resilience and courage it must have taken for her to choose the latter! As she fights through the crowds-there He is! I see His 12 disciples protecting Him and trying to keep people from physically overpowering and overwhelming Him. The crowds are reaching out and calling out to Him, "Heal me I am blind, no heal me I am deaf, I have a sick child, bless my home" and so on. They were all grabbing at Him, when this woman on here hands and knees, as she fights through the crowds and fights the voices of past failures and defeats realizes that she will not get close enough to be face to face or shake His hand with one last ditch effort lunges forward; with the mindset that "If I could just touch the hem of His garment, maybe just maybe I will be healed. Yes, I believe it, I know it-just the hem of the HIM is all I need to change my life forever."

That last push, that last ounce of strength she touches the bottom of Jesus clothes. Jesus felt a familiar surge of power leave His body and asked who touched me. The 12 said everybody is touching you, they are all reaching and grabbing for you-but Jesus said, "No this touch was different."

The woman, now with a new found strength, was able to stand up and come forward and tell Jesus that it was her. She was healed, made whole, her past was wiped clean, she can start anew with a fresh life!

Her story is not unlike the story of many. Your past and those things in your life that have been a "sickness" to you for many years have prevented you from moving forward, growing, or getting "better". Perhaps you have been knocked down and forgotten about by those most trusted and you feel that even God may have forgotten about you.

Well, I am here to tell you that He hasn't forgotten you-He wants to heal you and wipe away the past just like this woman. It was her faith that allowed her to breakthrough. It wasn't a strong religious faith- it was a faith that said "only Jesus can do this for me."
 Gather the strength, press forward, and reach for Jesus-your breakthrough awaits.

Be Blessed, 
Pastor D. 

John 5:4
For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.

All through out scripture, there are different instances where there were stirring(s) of water. In each case something tremendous happened. 

The Red Sea split and the Israelite's went through unscathed, not to mention those who meant to do harm were dealt with in one swift blow of GOD's delivering greatness. 
What about water from the rock in the desert?  A place that is dry and often times lifeless now yielded water, the essence and nourishment to life, from the most unlikely of sources.
In the Pool of Bethesda, an angel, stirred the waters for somebody to receive a complete and utterly unexplained miracle.

What are you going through that requires deliverance, possibly the magnitude that the Israelites' received or are things dry  and lifeless? Perhaps you just  need an unexplained miracle where the only possible explanation is that it is an act of a loving GOD.

No matter what your situation is, the Lord is beginning to stir the waters for you; your miracle is coming, your deliverance is at hand and new life is springing forth.

Be blessed,
Pastor D.