Hey y'all, thank you for listening to the Upper Room Dallas podcast.

This is Trace Howard.

I'm the director of Upper Room School of Ministry,

and I'm excited for you to hear this message about my own personal journey with the Lord

and my journey with Upper Room and the history of Upper Room School of Ministry and how our hearts are connected to

are experiencing the fullness of God.

And so I hope you're ministered to.

I hope you come away with a desire to seek after the heart of God.

He promises that when we seek him that he will be found.

And so as we do that individually in the secret place,

but then also as we learn how to do that corporately together,

that we get to see and know him more.

We get to experience the fullness of the kingdom of heaven on earth among us today.

And so again, excited for you to listen to the message and hope you're blessed.

Well, Chase said, my name is Trace.

I felt like I needed to maybe reintroduce myself.

It's actually been a minute since I've been here on a Sunday morning.

My family will usually attend Sunday night.

And so I'm thankful to be with you this morning, honored to be here.

I wanted to start in a certain way, like going in a little bit so with my story to help kind of set us up. Pastor Michael asked me to talk all about

upper room school and ministry. I direct upper room school and ministry. And I thought,

I can talk about the school. I was like, I'm just going to have to segue somehow into

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