Sozo Sessions

I would like to know opinions/thoughts on Sozo Sessions please. If you are not familiar please google it...I am still in the research stage myelf. So I cannot go about explaining it without putting in my opinion.

Hi chele,

I have done sozo sessions before and they are helpful as long as the ministry/organization you are doing it from has had the proper training and didn't just slap a sozo logo over their minstry.

Personally I recommend getting a sozo by a ministry affiliated with this one Click Link: Sozo: A Ministry of Bethel Church, Redding CA., or you can go directly to them to get a sozo session done.

What sozo sessions aim to do is to find any agreements with lies that were made in the past that still affect your freedom today. Most of the time these lies are rooted in 4 root categories that caused the belief in the lie to seem appealing at the time. This is how the enemy gains access to our life, by getting us to believe in a lie. Once you are free of these lies, you can actually walk out your life in Christ in the freedom He paid for. This is the whole premise on what sozo ministry is.

If you are struggling with your relationship with God or with habitual sin, sozo can be very helpful in identifiying why.

Hopefully this helps.

Machew

I just feel that Jesus is capable of healing us without methods. If its a matter of casting out demons/demonic attacks, then I most certainly see a need for a team of christians with the right know how to have a "session." The methods used in a sozo session sounds so much like new age stuff to me. Everything about it screams to me to run from it....nothing good could come of it. Thank you for your opinion & thoughts. I do appreciate them. And I hope I get many more. Never know....someone may show me where this holds up to scripture.

I definitely can see your concern, especially if you come from a church that doesn't have a charismatic culture. This is one of the reasons I would suggest you do your research before-hand on what the ministry doing the sozo session believes.

Sozo is primarily supposed to deal with what the demonic realm can attach themselves to in your life, like fear, unforgiveness, sexual immorality, pride, etc... These are major things that if held onto actually invites the demonic into people's lives and often even gives the demonic permission to be in that person's life. Sozo focuses on removing hinderances to hearing God and receiving from God in the person's life. They focus on connecting with the Father, and healing any wounds from the past that would give you an inaccurate view of Father God, they then focus on any wounds making it hard to connect to Jesus, then the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who directs the direction the sozo team members go with each session and each person. Really they just ask God, where do we start, and allow Him to elaborate throughout the session.

Romans 12:2(NASB)
12And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

The ways of the world include thinking in any fashion contradictory to the way God thinks about you, about Himself, and about others. How you think will dictate the possibilities you limit yourself to and what you allow God to do(He doesn't violate your free-will) in your life. God is trying to get us to leave behind our disappointments and pain, so we can live lives of freedom. We can only "prove what the will of God is" if we are positioned to take action as He would because we think like He does. The Bible tells us that we should have the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16). But any thoughts we have that are in conflict with His thoughts hinder us from being a part of God's will. Most of these thoughts are things we learned from the past and are sub-conscience because we have accepted them for so long that they are automatic reactions to our environment. These thoughts are habitual and often don't even enter our conscious thought. Regardless they are still problems, because they are in conflict with God's thoughts and only God knows what these agreements and thoughts we have made are.

The word SOZO comes directly out of the Bible

SOZO is the Greek word translated “saved, healed, delivered.”
SOZO contains the whole package of being made whole or well.

Salvation
“That if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you shall be saved (sozo).” Romans 10:9
Healing
“But Jesus turning and seeing her said ‘Daughter take courage your faith has made you well (sozo) and at once the woman was made well (sozo).” Matthew 9:22
Deliverance
“And those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well (sozo).” Luke 8:36


This is where the idea of sozo came from.

The question was asked: Why are many Christians still not sozo'd?



So some Christians got together and prayed asking God for insight, went into the Word of God, shared their deliverance experiences and compared them, then got together and put things together.


The conclusions they came to was:

1. Biblically the demonic has no legal right to manifest in or on Christians.
2. Demons still are able to somehow
3. There must be a better way to do deliverance and we need to pray to God to figure it out



So, they finally got some insight into the whole process through prayer and the practical experience of those who have done a lot of deliverance ministry. SOZO was the result of this.


As I said before SOZO sessions attack the things the demonic can attach themselves to in your life. If you eliminate all these things (fear, pride, unforgiveness) etc, then the demonic can't manifest in a person's life because all of their authority over that person becomes negated. The only way to accomplish this through Jesus, from Father God, Jesus , and Holy Spirit.



SOZO ministry is never supposed to consult any other divine help, only from God. So that will be a key component to figuring out if a ministry is legitimate.




There is much more, but hopefully this clarifies things a little.




Blessings,


Machew