Exodus 25:23-24&30 “Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
All the furniture in the tabernacle was made with acacia wood which is the only thorny tree that is found in the desert. A Table of Showbread was about three feet long, one and a half feet wide. The table was overlaid and adorned with gold. On the table there were twelve pieces of bread, arranged in two stacks, six on each stack.
At the fourth prayer station we stop at the Table of Showbread where we feast on the Living Bread, the Word of God. This is where we devour God’s Word. We read, study, memorize and ingest the scripture until it turns into food for our soul. Jesus said, “I am the bread of life” (John 6:35a). He quoted from Deuteronomy 8:3 “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”(Matthew 4:4). Our spirit man will become strong and sturdy as we consume and enrich ourselves with God’s Word daily. At the fourth prayer station we stop to nourish our souls with the Living Bread of God’s Word.
Prayer Station-4:
1. Eat: Traditionally people have the habit of eating three times a day. If our physical man requires food three times so does our spiritual man. The number of time we stop to eat food should be the number of times we stop at the Table of Showbread to read God’s Word.
2. Enrich: Read until it enriches your soul. We must mark and write down what we learn every day and every time we read the Bible. We must not stop until it enriches our soul.
3. Energize: God’s Word energizes our soul. Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you (John 6:53).
The fourth prayer station is the Table of Showbread that feeds our soul with the Living Bread, God’s Word.
Prayer: Jesus the Bread of Life, I will stop several times during the day to be nourished by your Living Word. Amen.
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