Put Your Face in the Sonlight (9am) - 11.3.2024 (Pastor Dylan Hunsberger)

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Who? Knows that with just one look

everything can change. One encounter with the living

God and your whole life will never be the same.

Who knows that that moment you encountered the love of God, you

knew that you were seen by God and that God so love you.

He sent his only Son, that whoever believed in him shall

not perish, but have everlasting life.

One look and everything changed. If that's your story, give a big

shout of praise. Lord Most High, take your seat.

God is good. God is good all the time.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Sir.

How are you guys doing this beautiful morning.

It's good. You guys can take your seats in

the presence of the Lord. He is here.

He is here. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord, for blessing us with your presence.

For those of you who don't know, my name is Pastor Dylan.

I'm one of the ordained pastors here at Love Quest International

Church, and it is my privilege to bring you the Word of God

this morning. And I'm, I'm very thankful to my

beloved pastors, Pastor Terence, Pastor Julia, for entrusting me

yet again with this microphone. And I do not take it lightly to

stand before you on behalf of God and bring a word I believe

will activate faith within the Saints to obtain the things of

God this side of heaven. And so I just thank you, Holy

Spirit, that you are with me. You empower me as your

surrendered servant to preach the Word of God.

And so today's title of what I'm going to preach to you is called

Put Your Face in the Sunlight. And that is not a typo.

I purposely wrote Sunlight, SON light, Speaking of the Son of

God, Jesus Christ. And at the top of the year, we

were given a prophetic charge and the man of God, Pastor

Terence, pulled up Scripture from Isaiah 60, a word that God

gave to his people. And God is saying the same word

to us, love quest. This is a word to activate us.

This is a word to charge us. This is a word to challenge us.

And this is what I'm going to be preaching here this morning.

So the word for today is, put your face in the sunlight.

Isaiah 60 verse one says, arise, touch your neighbor, say arise

from the depression and prostration in which

circumstances have kept you. Rise to a new light, shine, be

radiant with the glory of the Lord, for your light has come

and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

And so this is a time where the Lord is taking his people from,

delivered to walking in dominion, from slaves to sons.

God's intent is to activate sons and daughters, to walk in the

same authority, the same power, the same love that Jesus Christ,

his Son walked in well on earth. Jesus came as an example to us

as what it looks like to be fully manned, fully surrendered

to God and and the Lord is trying to get the church to this

place of being the light of the world.

Jesus moved in the miraculous and as a result crowds were

gathered. The nations were drawn to him

because it was evident that he had something that they did not

and they wanted it. And that is the Lord's intent is

to get the body of Christ to move and operate the same way

that Christ moved and operated well on earth.

And so here we say the here we hear the man of God-given a word

from God saying to the people, arise, arise from the depression

and prostration in which circumstances have kept you,

circumstances have kept you. And so I'm going to, I'm going

to start by preaching to you about arise, arise, arise.

He says you can't arise because the glory has come upon you.

The glory has risen for you. You need to know that Jesus

Christ is that glory that has risen for you.

And so the Lord would be unfair to tell you to do something that

you are not equipped to do. But the Lord has a right to tell

you to arise because your help has come.

Your help is here, your help is in.

The Lord arise from the circumstances that have kept you

down. And so I want to speak to you

about circumstances that keep us down.

Circumstances speak to the way things are, or circumstances

speak to the lack of things. There's a slide for this.

You'll have to skip 1 to get to it.

Circumstances speaks to the way things are or the lack of

things. And then those are often the

reasons that that we are stuck in a downward state.

OK, Things are not going the way that I hoped or planned they

would. The things that I'm believing to

show up and manifest in my life are not here yet, and it's

bummed me out. It's keeping me in a downward

state. It's preventing me from shining

my life. How am I supposed to go and tell

the world about this, the victory I have in Christ, when

I'm still battling this sickness?

How am I supposed to tell the world about the victory I have

in Christ when the very thing I believe in Jesus for hasn't

arrived in my possession yet here on earth?

How am I spell supposed to walk in victory when this depression

keeps clinging to me? How am I supposed to tell the

world about the victory in Christ when I'm still the way

things are going in my life? It doesn't look like I'm walking

in victory. Well, I want to come and speak

to you about how the enemy has a plan.

The enemy has a cycle. Bible says to John 1010 that he

comes to steal, kill and destroy and he starts by stealing things

in our life. And then he wants that to go

from stealing things to killing our hope, killing our joy, and

ultimately has a plan to destroy our faith or our legacy of faith

of us being a, a people, a bloodline of faith where we

raise up children the way they should go, where we are soul

winners. But I just declare that we are

not a people that cling so tightly to things that when

things don't show up, when things are taken from us, it

does not disrupt our hope. It does not disrupt our joy.

For our joy is so much deeply more rooted than things here on

earth. The Bible says do not store up

for yourself things, treasures on earth where the thief can

destroy and where, where where rust and mold can destroy, but

store up for yourself treasures in heaven.

And so I just declare I'm in the presence of Saints who like Paul

said in Romans, we may be going through some things, we may be

in some rough, rough circumstances, But like Paul, we

are convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's

love. Neither death nor life, neither

angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries

about tomorrow, not even the powers of hell can separate us

from God's love that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Our hope of glory. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, arise. The word of God says Pastor

Terence gave us this charge to say where he said look up, turn

to your neighbors, say look up. Get your face out of other

things that keep distracting you.

Keep your face out of other things that keep distracting

you. The enemy can't stop you, but he

can slow you down. And so it's not always the enemy

who's stealing things. But sometimes when we fix our

focus, when we meditate on when we obsess over the things of

this world instead of putting our hope and our affections on

the lower, it becomes a distraction.

If I'm just putting in front of my face Instagram and I'm

looking at everybody else's things or the way things are

going for everybody else, it starts to, I start to become

distracted. I get this woe is me about me,

Man, I wish I was doing what they were doing.

Man, I wish I had what they had. Man, I wish I had the the

influence that this person had. Man, this person's life looks

like it's so much more fun than mine.

But this is the season where we look up to the hills from where

our help comes from. This is where we stop fixating

on the things of this world and we push into the things of God.

This is the season that we lock in.

This is the season where it is go time.

And so look up, get your face out of other things that keep

distracting you. The face speaks to identity.

The face speaks to affection. The face speaks to attention.

And so where I am, where I am positioning my face is often

what's building my identity, and it's often where I am aiming my

affections. The Bible says that the eye is

the lamp of the body. The Bible also says what you

behold, you become. And So what we are putting our

face in front of what we are allowing into our eyes.

Not yet, please. What we're allowing into our

eyes directly impacts my heart, the eyes, the lamp of the body.

What you behold, you become. What I'm setting my face towards

is directly impacting my heart and the heart.

Heart belief is the very epicenter of which faith comes

forth from. I must be a steward, a guard of

my gates that impact my hearts in order for my faith to be

effective, for my faith to be potent, and for my faith to

work. The Bible says that hope

deferred makes the heart sick, but active hope where my hope is

positioned properly is a healthy heart.

And if heart belief is is directly impacting my faith, I

better make sure that my hope is set on Jesus Christ alone, for

He is the author, perfector and finisher of my faith.

And so where you keep your face is where you keep your faith.

Where you keep your face is where you keep your faith.

You choose where you aim your hope on the things that you

behold. You choose where you aim your

hope by what you said in front of your face.

And so it's time to look up, get your face out of the things that

are distracting you, and put them on Jesus.

And so it's time to arise, church.

It's time to arise. Put your face in the sunlight.

The message translation breaks down Isaiah 60 like this.

Get out of bed, Jerusalem. Get out of bed.

Love quest. Get out of bed, Andrew.

Get out of bed, Israel. Get out of bed, Rachel.

Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight,

for God's bright glory has risen for you.

The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people sunk in

deep darkness, but God shut it out.

But God rise is on me. His sunrise glory breaks over

you. Hallelujah, it is done church.

All you got to do is step into it.

The cross is a finished work. You just got to step into it.

Immerse yourself in the glory or goodness of God.

Immerse yourself in the glory or the goodness of God.

This is what I mean by put your face in the sunlight, Moses, ask

the Lord, show me your glory, and the Lord says I will cause

my goodness to pass before you. And who knows who knows that

Jesus is the King of glory, that Jesus is the love of God

revealed that Jesus Christ is the fullest expression of God's

love for us. The Bible says John 316 For God

so loved the world that he sent Jesus.

This word glory speaks to fullest expression of.

And so a flower that has fully opened and is fully bloomed and

is in its prime state, that is a flower that is in all of its

glory. And so Jesus Christ, the Bible

says in Hebrews 1/3, is the full glory of God revealed to the

earth. He exactly reveals God's nature.

He, he exactly reveals God's love.

He exactly represents God the Father in man form.

And so Jesus is the King of glory, the love of God revealed

Hebrews 1/3. I'll read it for you.

Jesus being the brightness of his glory, put your face in the

sunlight. Jesus the brightness of his

glory and the expressed image of His Person, and upholding all

things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged

our sins and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on

high. And so Jesus Christ is the full

glory, the full expression of God's love.

Simultaneously, Jesus is the author, perfector, and finisher

of faith. And So what the Lord really hit

me with that He wanted me to get to you today.

He wanted me to reiterate this word that Pastor Terence

preached, that a faith rooted in love is a faith victorious, ever

blooming, and ever fruitful. In other words, love is the

foundation for a faith that works.

A faith rooted in love is a faith victorious, ever blooming,

and ever fruitful. The Bible says in Galatians 5.

When we are in Christ Jesus, the only thing that matters is faith

that is activated, energized and expressed and working through

love. You need to get this picture.

Faith operates and is energized and moves through love.

And so the Bible says that God is love.

God is love, it says it's in first John 4/16.

And so man, the Lord really started to unpack this thing to

me. The man of faith that works is

rooted in love and God is love in order to have a potent faith.

Man, sometimes we get so fixated on I want the thing.

So I got to figure out how to how to manipulate faith in order

to possess the thing. But the Lord, the Lord is

showing me he's like, man, just just get in my presence.

Come to know my love, understand the depths of my love for you.

Put your face in my sunlight in my glory.

Get to know the love that God expressed through Jesus Christ

for you. And when you understand how much

God loves you, your faith will be so potent because how could

God not? How could God not?

Because God is love and love has nothing but the best in store

for me. And so I started reading the

scriptures differently with this revelation, man, God is love and

Jesus is the author in faith. How do those work together?

And so I just, I started reading these scriptures that that I

have so well memorized, so written up my heart scriptures

like Matthew 633 where it says, but seek first the Kingdom of

God and his righteousness or seek first love.

Seek first the Kingdom of love. And all these things that your

faith brings shall be added to you.

And so you have to see the order of this.

You have to see man seek first love.

Seek first knowing who you are in the love of God before we're

trying to activate faith for things.

Man, put your face in the sunlight and know love.

Seek first love and righteousness.

Psalm 37 says, delight yourself also in the Lord, or delight

yourself also in love, and He shall give you the desires of

your heart. And so man, put your face in the

sunlight. There's something about man.

That song really hit me, man. Everything changes with just one

look from the Lord. Something about knowing that you

are seen and known and loved by God so much that He gave His

best to be reunited with you. That He just wants us.

He wants relationship with us, He wants us to be one with Him.

He wants us to seek first relationship with the Lord and

then all these other things will be taken care of for you.

And so the Word of God says arise, for Jesus has made it

possible for you to arise. The glory of the Lord has risen

so that you can rise too. Put your face in the sun, man.

Get to know who you are in Christ.

Be built up in the presence of God.

Be built up in the love of God. The Holy Spirit has been given

to you. Hebrews 55 says that the Spirit

of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, he sheds the love of God abroad in

your heart. And Jude and Jude 20 also says,

but you, beloved, build yourself up on your most holy faith,

praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God,

looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it's in this place that we are to keep ourselves in the

love of God. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of

sonship is the one that reveals to us the love of God.

And we are the ones that are to position ourselves in the

presence of God. We are the ones that are to

positions ourselves in the light of the sun.

We are the ones that are to keep ourselves in the love of God.

And lastly, the Lord says shine. Now is the time for you to be.

Now is the time for you to walk in the spirit of sonship.

Now is the time to see yourself as one with Christ.

Now is the time that you yourself go and be the answer to

a lost and dying world. Now is the time freely you have

received. Now freely you give salvation on

to others. This is the year where sons and

daughters are activated in the mighty name of Jesus. 2nd

Corinthians says whenever someone turns to the Lord, or

whenever someone chooses to arise from the current

circumstances, the veil is taken away.

Where you were once blind, you can see now.

For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Lord is, there is

freedom. So all of us who have had that

veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord.

Man, that is powerful. I want you to get that in your

spirit, say, I can see and reflect the glory of the Lord.

Hallelujah, it goes on to say. And the Lord, who is the Spirit,

makes us more and more like Him, so we are changed into His

glorious image. Man walking with the Holy

Spirit, cultivating a relationship with the Holy

Spirit, praying in the Holy Spirit, spending time in the

Spirit, seeking the Lord that will change you into His

glorious image. Faith is not something that is

learned. Faith is something that is

imparted into you through the word of God and through the

spirit of sonship at work inside of you.

It's time to shine. It's time to be Acts 1038.

We read about Jesus. Remember, Jesus is the glory of

God, the full expression of God. He is our role model.

He is the author, perfector and finisher of faith.

He is the one that we are to be like.

Acts 1038 says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.

Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about

doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for

God was with them, or the love of God was with him.

So here we see Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit,

that same Holy Spirit that I was Speaking of, that comes to bring

the glory out from you. Jesus had that same Holy Spirit.

And with that Holy Spirit he went and he shone everywhere he

went. He pushed back darkness

everywhere he went. He cast out the devils and

unclean spirits everywhere he went.

He cured sickness everywhere he went.

He he set the truth in place. Everywhere Jesus went, he did

good. And so we need to see here the

Holy Spirit went everywhere with Jesus.

Jesus says I must go so that the Holy Spirit can come on you and

go everywhere with you. And you need to know that you

are anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power to go

about doing good. And as Jesus was shining his

light, the the Bible says that crowds continue to gather around

him. Rumors continue to spread of

Jesus of Nazareth who was doing all these miracle signs and

wonders. People were gathering their

friends, people were bringing their family.

People were bringing people to the feet of Jesus because he was

shining his light bright. And who knows that that is

Jesus's mission still is to gather people and set them free.

That is the mission of the church.

That is your ultimate mission is to bring people unto the

salvation of the Lord, to bring deliverance, to cast out devils,

to heal the sick. And so God, the love of God.

The Bible says Jesus was was moved with compassion.

He was overflowing and filled with the love of God and that

was the motivator to the faith that he released.

He was one with God the Father. Jesus was one with love.

Jesus set his face towards the Father and in return the Father

set his face towards him. And so Jesus was the love of God

walking on earth. You and I, church, are the love

of God walking on earth. And so we are to shine this

great love of God for God's people and believe that the Holy

Spirit is with us to bring the answer that this world is

looking for. And so this idea that man faith

that works is rooted in love must mean that great love

releases great faith. Great love releases great faith.

The Bible says that there is no greater love than a man lays

down his life for his friends. And I believe that when we start

to walk in this love for others that we will start to activate

our faith for others and we will truly see this faith that Jesus

Christ released on earth operating and releasing through

us. It starts with us, create us,

carrying the love of God within us, and that is the foundation

upon which a great faith will be released.

Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God or have faith

in love, that the love of God is so big for you that this

seemingly immovable object can be removed.

Have faith in God or have faith in the love of God for you.

For assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be

removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his

heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, He

will have whatever he says. Great love releases great faith,

and I believe that a love not built on conditions, but

revelation is what moves mountains.

My love is not built on whether or not God gets me the things I

want or makes things start going the way I want them to, but my

love is built on the revelation of God's great love for me that

was made manifest in Jesus Christ coming and dying a brutal

death so that I could be set free.

The book the Bible says that his body was broken, that mine may

be healed, His blood was shed so that my sins may be forgiven.

An innocent man that knew no sin.

And then he rose three days later so that I can arise from

my circumstances that have kept me down.

And today, Church, I believe that you are gathered here at

this 9:00 AM service because you too are ready to arise from the

circumstances that once keep you down.

And so I just declare Church that you are ready because He is

with you and He is ready. I declare Church that you are

ready to arise. You are ready to put your face

in the sunlight. You are ready to shine.

And I'm just going to declare and decree this as the worship

team comes up out of Isaiah 60, it says, after you've arisen,

after you have put your face in the glory of the Lord, after you

let your light shine, it says, and I declare this is our

reality here at Love Quest. So, Father, I just thank you

that nations will come to our light, that kings are coming to

our sunburst brightness. We do look up, we do look

around. We watch as they gather, we

watch as they approach us. Sons are coming from great

distances, daughters are being carried by their nannies.

And when we see them coming, we shall smile.

Big smiles, shout it out, church big smiles.

Our heart will swell and yes, burst.

I declare and decree that 2024 is the year of homecoming.

Sons and daughters are activating.

The Father's heart is revealed in the mighty name of Jesus.

Amen. Thank you so much for tuning

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