Pastor Deb & BDC

Good Can Be Bait, But is God the source?  All that appears good is not God-ordained.  God doesn't measure “good” the way culture, logic, or emotions do.“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.” — Isaiah 55:8Good can be the bait.But the question for today is “Is God the Source?”Closing Song - Is God The Source - written and produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Thank you again for leaning into yesterday's conversation on purpose. I heard the honest follow-ups loud and clear:“I don't know my purpose… how am I supposed to know what it is?”First—thank you for that transparency. That question isn't weakness; it's hunger. And hunger always gets God's attention.Closing Song:  Every Day Starts A New Year written and produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

This morning, I pray that my transparency sparks something in you, something that launches you straight into your God-given purpose.When you ask most people about their purpose, they'll list their goals or their dreams. But that's not the purpose. Goals are what you want to achieve. Purpose is why you're here. Why, God created you. What is your assignment in His plan?Purpose is an assignment, not the agenda. It's given, not originated by you. It's what God entrusted to youClosing Songs - Lord Use Me and Pursuing Purpose both produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Morning declaration: “I will no longer disqualify what God has intentionally designed. My difference is not a flaw—it's a feature in God's plan.”Closing Song - I'm My Own Amen Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

"God will not put more on you than you can bear."  That IS NOT TRUE - NOR IS IT SCRIPTURAL.   You will go through seasons when the weight on your shoulders is more than you can bear, but let your faith in God encourage you, knowing that He has a plan for your way out, for your weight to be lifted.Closing Song: The Way Out - produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Alright, let me lovingly disrupt a popular slogan.Everybody loves to say, “We're all God's children.”It sounds warm. It sounds inclusive. It sounds like something you'd put on a coffee mug with a sunset behind it.And some of you are already ready to say Amen—not because it's biblical, but because we tend to think that being a child of God is automatic because He created us all, and on top of that, because He created us all with purpose.All true, however, biblically speaking, we are not automatically God's children. That may make some of you cringe, but it is absolutely Scripture.God's divine plan was never for humanity to be born into forced allegiance with HimClosing Song: God's Legitimate Children - produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

This morning I was to talk to you briefly about something so basic, something our mothers and grandmothers like taught us. But being adults, dealing with life, while life be lifing its really easy to stray away from the basics.Closing Song:  All Day & All Night - You Kept Me - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

 Let's talk about that very popular phrase we hear everywhere: “my truth.”Now don't get me wrong—your experience is real. Your feelings are valid. Your pain matters. But feelings don't get to vote on truth.Because here's the problem with “my truth”: it collapses the moment it bumps into someone else's “my truth.” If your truth says up and my truth says down, somebody's wrong—or truth just clocked out for the day.Closing Song:  An Inconsistent Truth Is A Lie - produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

You don't need a mic to be anointed.Sometimes all you need is obedience, excellence, and the courage to take your gift seriously.What you're gifted to do with your hands, your brain power is just as holy as what someone else does with a mic. And God is still filling people with His Spirit—one masterpiece at a time.Closing Song -  His Spirit In My Hands produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

“A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money answers everything.”  Ecclesiastes 10:19Solomon spends the chapter dissecting:Foolish thinkingFoolish speechFoolish reactionsFoolish leadershipFoolish shortcutsClosing Song: What Will You Take Into Glory - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Since the beginning of time, God has been in every moment of history.History is God's receipts.So today we declare:We choose to remember.We choose to tell the story.We choose to hold on to God's receipts.And we will not allow His receipts to be dismissedClosing Song: History Is God's Recept produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

With a renewed mind, a renewed faith, and a renewed proclamation that declares, “I want to live like I believe.” This is a proclamation if embrace will change all aspects of your faith and your prayers. Be blessedClosing Song: Live Like I Believe - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Respect is due to everyone. But respect must never wear the mask of worship, and honor must never turn into favoritism.So here's today's heart check:Am I honoring people in a way that still keeps God first…Am I careful not to show favoritism that makes others feel less, or have I been clapping louder for humans than I've been listening to Heaven?Stay respectful. Stay humble. Stay aligned.Closing Song:  What Will You Take Into Glory- produce by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Do not conform to the way of this world.  Don't buy into the world's trends of matching energy God called you for so much more.Closing Song: The Game Changing Plot Twist - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Yes, we like being admired. Yes, we blush a little when someone notices. But many of us — myself included — have entertained relationships where we were only seen for the external version of ourselves. And let's be fair — we've done it too. We've looked at the surface and called it compatibility.But attraction is not alignment.That's why in the song I say:“Do you see me — I mean the real me? Not the frame, not the glow…”Because real connection requires spiritual vision. It requires asking better questions. Not “Do we look good together?” but:“Does my purpose make sense next to yours?”Whew, that's a question that will clear a room.See, Kingdom relationships don't compete — they complement. No one has to shrink. No one has to dim. When God joins two people, their callings make sense side-by-side.Closing Songs:  "Do You See Me" - "Lord, Use Me" & "Lord Just You and Me" - produced by Deborah Ocasio  (available via Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, and more (https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCC2JOnaRg6bez2j2jlVMM5Q?si=kH8wTTPvzQ7D4kBi)Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

God calls us to be light to drive out darkness, to bring temperatures down in a room, to let exalt peace and make chaos stand still, to bring reasoning to disagreements, and to build bridges between what is divided. LET US BE LIGHT!Closing Song: Let Us Be Light - Produced By Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Today, we pray for strength not to fight people, but to stand against lies, against wickedness, against injustice. Strength to resist principalities in disguise. Strength to speak the truth without fear. Strength to seek justice while exalting godly love.Closing Songs: Lord, Make Us One and Live Like I Believe both produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Jesus said:Matthew 6:21  “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”If your treasure is the Word of God, the love of God, stop sleeping on being intentional about studying His Word, and when you hear the truth of the Gospel spoken or preached, share it with another. Be blessed.Closing Song:  Worth More Than A Million - produce by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

As a nation, we have been dealing with a whole lot, and now much of the nation is under winter storm alerts, people are preparing, watching the forecasts, and bracing for the worst. I want to say this: Preparation is wise. But panic is not. What if what we're calling inconvenience is actually an invitation?Sometimes disruption is divine.Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Not rush and know. Not panic and know. Be still.Closing Song:  Time Out - Go To Your Room produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

In times like these—when everything feels loud, unstable, and uncertain—songs like “God Is” don't just sound good…They hold you up.CLOSING SONG: God Is by James ClevelandSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

The same God who walked with Abraham, spoke to Moses, and strengthened David over 2,000 years ago is the same God present with you right now—and the only God who will exist beyond eternity. And let's be honest, eternity is another concept we don't keep in the forefront of our minds either.Closing Song: Everywhere Always produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

You can trust God even when the system is against you. You can release what you love without losing it. You can obey God quietly and still shift history. Some of you are in a season right now. You've done all you can do. Your faith may be working behind the scenes, but heaven is paying close attention. You've prayed. You've protected, and history is still being shaped because of it, a history that may never make the books, but every life you've touched, every life you've held is connected to someone's history, someone's journey, and their life connected to another and another.Closing Song; Behind The Scenes - produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

This Sunday, God is calling us to do things differently, not to stick to the same old format. So get ready!!!DIRECT LINK TO MUSICSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Still StandingI Choose Life, I Choose ChristI Own Every Step of My JourneyDIRECT LINK TO MUSIC BY DEBORAH OCASIOSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

If you are not a candidate for soul surgery, chances are you know someone who is.  Free yourself and help another free themselves. Listen and share.  Be Blessed  DIRECT LINK TO MUSIC. - I FORGIVE YOU produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Sometimes, to manage your "yes" well means saying "no".  Today's prayer is Lord, help me manage my "yes" in a manner that pleases you and sustains my peace.DIRECT SONG LINKSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Enjoy the music let it center you as you give God glory.  DIRECT MUSIC LINKSongs produced by Deborah Ocasio Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

I encourage everyone under the sound of my voice to take time to just chill with God; his calendar is wide open, we are the ones with all the "to - do"s"Chilling with God is an experience unmatched by church, retreats, or conferences. Be blessed.Closing Song: Chillin With God - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Today's reminder: You don't need permission to move forward. You don't need closure to obey God. And you don't need to carry dust from places God already released you from.Shake it off. Protect your peace. And keep your feet Kingdom-clean. Be Blessed!!!!Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Whatever you do,Don't confuse silence with absence. Don't mistake waiting for rejection. And don't let impatience bully you into doubt.If God said it, it's settled. If it's delayed, it's developing. And if you're still standing—Heaven's still working.So breathe. Stretch. Trust the process. And maybe checking your spiritual tracking number every five minutes. There is no need to seek a psychic with a crystal ball. What God has for you will arrive right on time—and when it does, you'll be ready. Not just to receive it, but to carry it with strength, with joy, and with purpose.Closing Song: Habakkuh Style - Produced by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

If your first instinct when you hear “New Year, New Yes, New Access” is to think about you and yours, pause… and rewind.Because favor is not released where selfishness abides.Favor flows where obedience is outward-facing. Favor rests on assignments that bless beyond self. Favor is activated when your yes becomes a conduit, not a container.So in this season, be intentional. Intentional about your new yes. Intentional about your new moves. Intentional about how your obedience impacts beyond you and yours.Grace kept us. Favor now positions us. And this new yes—Closing Songs:  Still Standing & New Year New Yes (link to musical collection)Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Ladies, the time has come to shift our priorities, stand on our worth, and, even more importantly, pour some knowledge into our young girls, build them up, and treat them as princesses in training for positions as queens. So to every female under the sound of my voice, I say this: Pull up a chair, Girl Sit Down. Closing Song: Girl Sit Down https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IGbR3KjmSZs&si=AGGzOXjecSzVsMquSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

This is not just a season to just, believe. This is a season to become.Go forward. Build boldly. Stand firmly. Do You — as unto God.   And proclaim I'll BecomeClosing Song - I'll Become (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zeImureMFcQ&si=WdUf3Hm6lE_bjFpI)Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

“Lord, thank You for holding us when we forgot how to hold on. Thank you for covering us when we didn't deserve it. Thank you for guiding us when we thought we knew better than you. Our past is not our prison—it's our proof. Our tears are not our weakness—they're our testimony. Lord, our next season belongs to You. Thank You for holding each and every one of us.”  AmenDon't just shout “New Year, New Me.” Shout: “New Year, Same God—still holding me.”Closing Song:  Thank You For Holding Me https://music.apple.com/us/song/thank-you-for-holding-me/1864584910Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

As we embrace a new year… Our themes for this upcoming year are New Year, New Yes. With that thought in mind, I encourage you to ask yourself about your wishlist, and then be honest about how much of what you desire you can take into glory.Closing Song: What Will You Take Into Glory https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dJX6CZMc97ASupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Some of us wake up carrying shame like it's part of our outfit. Shame for addictions we conquered. Shame for marriages that didn't survive. Shame for money, we mishandled. Shame for the version of us that made choices we'd never make now. But here's the truth:You can't embarrass God with a past He already redeemed.Closing Song : I Own My Journey (written and produced by Deborah Ocasio)Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

As we move forward into a new year. In 2026:Don't just ask God for blessings — ask Him for direction.Don't just ask for change — ask for conviction.Don't just pray for open doors — pray for discernment so you don't kick in the wrong ones.Closing Song: I Choose Life - I Choose Christ (Written and produced by Deborah Ocasio) Click to follow Pastor Deb's Musical CompilationsSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

You know sometimes you've got to clap for yourself like you just scored the game-winning shot in overtime… even if nobody else in the bleachers noticed you were playing.  Don't be afraid to be your own cheerleader, claim your own Amen.This isn't conceit. It's not arrogance. It's stewardship of what God placed in you.Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Christmas cannot be boxed up. Jesus cannot be stored away.  Because the miracle of His birth is not a season — it's a Savior who reigns every day.Closing Song: Christmas 365 (https://youtu.be/a2jwm52v_cs)Written & Produced By Deborah Ocasio. / Vocal Cast & Creative Director: Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

The miracle isn't just that God came to earth; it's that He still chooses to dwell with us. And that…is still the miracle of Christmas.Closing song: The Gift That Changed Everything - Written and Produced by Deborah "Pastor Deb" Ocasio.  https://open.spotify.com/track/3M0etILmmY1N5JlLb6dwjj?si=ce9780c989ee4231Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

When you think of Noah, you likely think of the ark-building Noah, but there is another Noah in the Bible, and she also survived a storm. You heard me right, I said “she.”  The other Noah mentioned in the bible is a “she,” mentioned in Numbers 27:1-11Closing Song: I am Noah written and produced by Deborah "Pastor Deb" Ocasio.Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1Wherever you are today, don't fight the season—learn from it.Closing Song:  Seasons - written and produce by Deborah "Pastor Deb" OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Real joy shows up when you stop faking it. There's a kind of sacred freedom in just being honest with yourself.No masks. No polished prayers. No pretending to be super spiritual.And let's be honest: we spend way too much time trying to look righteous instead of actually living righteously.The performance can be exhausting.Real joy shows up when we stop faking itWhen we stop trying to win approval, crafting the perfect image, and chasing compliments.Closing Song: Unfiltered Joy - Written & Produced by Deborah (Pastor Deb) OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Deliver the truthForgive freelyTrust the Holy Spirit fullyStay in your laneGod handles the rest.As Hebrews 13:16 reminds us:“Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.”Sharing truth is a sacrifice—it requires setting aside pride, judgment, fear, and insecurity. But it pleases God.And obedience always bears fruit.Closing Song: My Truth Assignment produced & written by Deborah (Pastor Deb) OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

As we approach the holy celebration of the birth of Jesus, we have to be honest with ourselves: it's almost blasphemous to celebrate the miracle of God becoming flesh while clutching an unforgiving heart. We can't rock the cradle of Grace while refusing to extend it.And now—we're standing at the doorway of a brand-new year. Fresh starts. Clean slates. New mercies. But hear me clearly: forgiveness is not optional if you want to claim all that God has prepared for you. You cannot carry old offenses into a new season and expect new oil.The Word says it plainly in Ephesians 4:31–32:“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”I'm going to step back now— and let this powerful song do what words sometimes can't.Song: She said, "I Forgive YOU"  - A music compilation produced by Deborah Ocasio (Pastor Deb).Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

many of us say God is alive, but we don't actually live like it. We panic when life goes left, pray like God is distant, and make decisions as if He can't see, can't hear, and can't intervene. This message challenges believers to examine their actions, reactions, priorities, and standards through the lens of a God who is fully alive, fully aware, and fully powerful.We talk about the difference between believing in God and living like He's active, why we often settle for “microwave miracles,” and why God uses process—not shortcuts—to build our faith. From Abraham's long wait to David's training season, we explore how God develops us before He promotes us.Today you will be called into boldness: Pray like He's alive. Obey like He's alive. Give like He's alive. Move like He's alive. Because God isn't distant or inactive—He is present, powerful, and still working today.  If He's alive… It's time our lifestyle agrees.Closing Song:  God Is Alive - Live Like It by Deborah OcasioSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

I am here this morning to tell you that your gift is powerful, prophetic, and purposeful…So stop whispering like heaven handed you a Post-it note instead of a calling.God is not the one shushing you. Life is. Fear is. People are.Today, we unmute what hell is trying to muzzle.Closing Song:  Wake Up & Big God by TerrianSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

What if the fire you're in isn't punishment but promotion? Not destruction but demonstration?What if the weapon formed wasn't assigned to kill you, But assigned to reveal who's walking with you?Closing Song: Another in the Fire by Hillsong (UNITED)(The Life and Times of Daniel Part 4)Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

(The Life and Times of Daniel Part 3)God has pulled back the curtain for in our now.  We are living what it looks like when God pulls back the curtain, and so the depth of the darkness we are basking inToday, we're living in a world where the ugly underbelly of humanity is no longer hidden:Greed parades in the streets.Selfishness gets celebrated as independence.Deception trends faster than truth.Manipulation is marketed as a strategy.Sexual sin has become our declaration of freedom.Political upheaval has become the norm.Satanic agendas are boldly promoted in music, TV, and policy.Children's pain is ignored, minimized, or exploited.Human trafficking headlines grow weekly.Leaders are indicted while still campaigning.Wars erupt while peace talks crumble.Gun violence and school shootings headline the week.Economic instability shakes families daily.Celebrities normalize witchcraft and dark spirituality.And the only reason we haven't fainted like Daniel is because we have been desensitized by a culture soaked in darkness.Closing Song: Wake Up Everybody by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass.Support the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

(The Life & Times of Daniel Pt 2)Everything man builds eventually cracks, crumbles, or collapses. But the kingdom God is building in you? Unshakeable.Every lesson that you prayerfully embraced this morning was ignited because Daniel listened to God, and because he put his faith fearlessly in action, a whole nation was saved.Closing Song: Waymaker by SinachSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org

Daniel was trafficked into Babylon with one goal: to be reprogrammed, rebranded, and remade into something God never called him to be. Babylon wanted to strip him of covenant, dilute his convictions, and mold him into its image.But Daniel's life does something for us—something uncomfortable, but something necessary. It shuts down the excuse of “I'm just a product of my environment.” Daniel makes that excuse inadmissible in Heaven's court. Babylon was built to break him… and he still stood.Why… How? Because before he ever stepped foot in Babylon, he made a decision in his heart about who he belonged to. And that decision made him Babylon-Proof.Closing Song: Surrounded ( Fight My Battles ) by  UPPERROOMSupport the showwww.BibleDeliverance.org