Dr. Rowland has announced his retirement. As we plan for the transition, our General Superintendent, Dr. David Graves, and our USA/Canada Regional Director, Dr. Stan Reeder, met with our District Advisory Committee and formed a prayer committee to help us focus on a prayer emphasis. Below is a short note from this team. Please join us as we prayerfully prepare for District Assembly on April 30-May 1.

Our Theme Verse – We would like to join SNU in using Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

Daily Reminder - We are asking the OK District family to set your watches and alarms every day at 3:56pm to be in prayer for our District Superintendent search and for revival across the OK District.

Devotionals - Beginning March 27th, on Mondays, and for the next 4 weeks, we will be sending out a devotional on prayer to focus on our search. Light devotionals that should inspire, encourage!!!

Bookmarks - We will be making bookmarks & Finding ways to distribute these bookmarks all across the district asking and reminding people to pray with us - Proverbs 3:5-6, Prayer, knowing He will light/direct our path.

Prayer Committee: Sharla Stephenson, Mary Johnson Runion, Rick Harvey and David Frees

DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH  FINAL DEVOTIONAL

WWW.OKNAZ.ORG   TRUST   Trust in the Lord with all your heart     and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,     and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6   We have to choose whether we will trust God or depend on our own understanding, our intuitions, feelings, instincts and inclinations. It always comes back to this crucial question, “Do we know what we don’t know?” In other words, “Do we realize our own limitations?” The instruction is clear, “Lean not on your own understanding.” It is stated with more firmness in 3:7, “Do not be wise in your own eyes.”   We need more than our own understanding, more than knowledge. In fact, our problem isn’t a lack of knowledge—it is independence. So, we are challenged, “In all your ways submit to Him.” And then comes the promise, “He will make your paths straight,” or “He will show you which path to take (NLT).” This is the good news—God wants us to live in a trusting relationship with Him, allowing Him to guide every step we take.   In Dennis Kinlaw’s daily devotional, This Day with The Master, he reminds us of Moses’ request in Exodus 33:15, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.” God agreed to go with the people of Israel saying, “My Presence will go with you.” Kinlaw reminds us that the Hebrew text actually says, “My face will go with you.” Then he adds, “A face is an incredible thing. It can speak more clearly than a voice and more tenderly than a touch. God desires a face-to-face relationship with his people.”   I will conclude with this challenge: the Oklahoma District family has no need to go through this process of electing a new District Superintendent alone, when we can be face-to-face with God.   Father, give this Oklahoma District Church family the grace to trust in you with all our hearts, leaning not on our own understanding, in all our ways submitting to you, believing you will show us which path to take.   Rick Harvey Lead Pastor Bethany First Church