Blessed To Be A Blessing
Sozo Foundation
Pastor Orlando Juarez
January 19, 2025

Romans 8

V31 If God be for us who can be against us.
V32 All things are ours in Christ JESUS.
V33 Since we have such an incredible salvation and have been justified by GOD…Who would bring a charge against God’s elect.
V34 Christ paid the ransom for our freedom with His death, secured our victory with His resurrection, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, making intersession for us.

God’s form of restoration is greater than our metric of restoration. If there is a discrepancy, go with God’s metric.

1 Samuel 30:21-22 NLT

21 Then David returned to the brook Besor and met up with the 200 men who had been left behind because they were too exhausted to go with him. They went out to meet David and his men, and David greeted them joyfully.

1 Samuel 30:22 MSG

22 But all the mean-spirited men who had marched with David, the rabble element, objected: “They didn’t help in the rescue, they don’t get any of the plunder we recovered. Each man can have his wife and children, but that’s it. Take them and go!”

Money revealed that they were still tethered to a stressed out, in debt, bitter, poverty IDENTITY.

A lack or poverty mindset does not disappear when prosperity comes. The fear of not having enough morphs into a fear of losing it all.

1 Timothy 6:9 NLT

But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

The desire for riches can be more destructive than the riches themselves…
Idol worship - False humility - An entitlement attitude - Focus on wanting and not working - Falling prey to get rich schemes

1 Timothy 6:10 NLT

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:17 Teach those who are rich in this world…

1 Don’t be proud.
2 Don’t put your trust in your riches.
3 Recognize earthly riches are unreliable.
4 Trust only in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.

1 Timothy 6:18 

5 Use your money to do good.
6 Be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others.

1 Timothy 6:19

7 Store up your treasure as a good foundation for the future so you may experience true life.

1 Samuel 30:23-25 NLT

23 But David said, “No, my brothers! Don’t be selfish with what the LORD has given us. He has kept us safe and helped us defeat the band of raiders that attacked us.
24 Who will listen when you talk like this? We share and share alike—those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment.”
25 From then on David made this a decree and regulation for Israel, and it is still followed today.

Receiving God’s kind of restoration creates a giving heart.

God’s restoration, salvation, and provision empower us to become channels of His generosity, actively sharing our blessings with others.

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SOZO LIFE is meant to be shared.
I am BLESSED to be a BLESSING.