This prayer path station is connected to the worship series,
"A Table in the Wilderness”
Prayer Path Introduction: A Journey in the Wilderness
Station 1 | Station 2 | Station 3 | Station 4
Station 5 | Station 6 | Station 7 | Station 8
Third prayer station
A Table in the Wilderness for Hagar
Opening Prayer
O Lord, can you really spread a table in the wilderness of life? Walk with me as I walk this path of the cross with honest questions of life in my heart and my face turned to find the table you have spread in the wilderness for so many before me, and now also for me. Amen.
Reading
Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy [Ishmael]. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob. God heard the boy crying. . . . Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.
—from Genesis 21
Reflect
Insert wondering questions about the Scripture text and/or picture you are using or use the following.
What do I notice as I look at this picture?
What is making me sad and thirsty?
Can God really provide a table in the wilderness of sadness and thirst?
Christ Speaks: Words of Encouragement
Take heart, my child. I will not let the cross you bear grow beyond your endurance.
My Father attends you. He is your Father too.
All that is needed God’s hands will provide.
Closing Prayer
We adore you, O Christ,
and we bless you because by your life,
your death, and your resurrection
you have shown us how God always spreads
a table in the wilderness
in the face of all our fears.
Amen.
This station is linked to the third Sunday of Lent in the series "A Table in the Wilderness"
