About Our Ministry

Deep Waters Ministry is a 501c3  non-profit ministry. During a worship service at a summer retreat in 1996, I had a vision of a crude drawing of sailboats leaving a safe harbor and heading into the deep. The rendering above is close to what I saw and has become the ministry logo.

While the vision appeared, the Lord told me to start Deep Waters Ministry and get my 501c3, etc., which I did.

The subsequent communication came to me in Toronto at a Catch the Fire Conference that same year. During the worship, I had a vision of a coral reef. There were assortments of colorful fish swimming around the reef. The scene changed, and I saw in my spirit black, foreboding water encompassing me. My initial thought was of the cold waters that the Titanic is under. Waters where visibility is zero and an outline of one’s hand in front of one’s face would be unobtainable by the eye. At this point, the Lord spoke and said,

“Come out of the shallow waters where the colorful Christians reside. Though pleasing to the eye, that dwelling ground consists of layer upon layer of death. Come out to the deep water. That is where I dwell. It is a place of uncertainty, a place where your sin is exposed, and I am revealed (Luke 5:4-10). A place of healing, repentance, and intimacy, and is where the catch is brought in.”

With that, I saw a hand extended out to me, and I heard,

Do you trust Me?

Called in 1992 to pray in a “Holy Ghost revival” before formally becoming a ministry, intercessors and I have faithfully prayed out the Lord’s directives multiple times a week concerning this matter for over 30 years. I have written 15 books (I am still writing) of revelation intercessors, and I received—insights into the workings of Jesus’ Kingdom over the decades. We have been equipping the people of God at various levels of their Christian walk to understand their Good Shepherd’s voice, discern the voice of another, and stand firm against the attacks of the enemy of our souls. We stir up the gifts of God within individuals and have created a safe environment for them to step out in faith and use them.

In Christ, 

Diane Scalchunes,

Pastor, President, and Founder of Deep Waters Ministries
Statement of
Faith

One True Eternal God Exists in Three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

All things were created, visible and invisible, through the Son, Jesus Christ, Father, and Holy Spirit. Adam and Eve were made in the image of God. Their disobedience bought sin and death into the world, corrupting them and their offspring, the human race, thereby alienating us from a holy God.

God’s gracious promise of a Redeemer was given to fallen humanity soon after Adam and Eve sinned. This Messiah, seen through Christophanies, prophecy, types, and shadows throughout the Old Testament, would restore those who believe in Him to God. Salvation is
of the Lord—a gift from God; no one can earn it.

At the fullness of time, Jesus Christ, although God, became incarnate through the virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus lived a sinless life and, by dying on the Cross, became a substitute paying the penalty for sin—death, fulfilling divine justice and bringing salvation to all who trust in His redemption. Jesus rose from the dead, ascended bodily into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God the Father.

Jesus promised those who receive the gift of eternal life by believing in His sacrifice for their sin that He would come to them—He wouldn’t leave them on earth as orphans. He would send His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the very Spirit that rose Him from the dead, to live in them. Believers are to be baptized in water and the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit empowers believers to pick up their cross and follow Jesus down the narrow road that leads to life. He convicts the world of sin and pours out salvation graces on those the Father draws to the Son, imparting them with newness of life. He applies the graces Jesus obtained for the Church according to the recipients’ faith.

Jesus gives gifts and offices through His Spirit to equip the Church—His body of whom He is Head. He will come again to the earth to usher in His Millennial Kingdom. Jesus will judge the living and the dead; all people will stand before Him and give an account of their lives. Those in Christ will live with Him in eternal life, and those who followed the prince of this world, Satan, and lived according to the auspices of his kingdom of deception, will be cut off from God and enter into a place of outer darkness; a place prepared for Satan and his fallen angels.