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
Fifth prayer station
A Table in the Wilderness for David
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
While David was in the wilderness, he asked a wealthy man named Nabal, whose shepherds David had protected, to give food to him and his men. Instead Nabal hurled insults at David. But Nabal’s wife, Abigail, acted quickly. She took bread, wine, meat, roasted grain, cakes of raisins, and pressed figs, loaded them on donkeys, and went out to meet David and his men. David said, “Praise be to the Lord”, who has sent you to meet me and kept me from avenging myself.” He accepted from her hand what she had brought him and sent her home in peace
—adapted from 1 Samuel 25 NIV
Reflect
Insert wondering questions about the Scripture text and/or picture you are using or use the following.
What do I notice or feel as I look at this picture?
What makes me angry and perhaps even wanting to even the score?
Can God really provide a table in the wilderness of anger and vengeance?
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 fifth Sunday of Lent in the series "A Table in the Wilderness"
