1. What does it mean to you that the Lord is your shepherd?

2. Read 1 Samuel 17:34-36. What does a shepherd provide for the flock?

3. What does it mean to dwell with the shepherd? Have you ever dwelled with God?

4. How would you rewrite Psalm 23:1 in your own words?

1. Think about the paths you have walked so far in your life. Would you consider them the “right” paths, or the “wrong” paths?

2. Psalm 23:3 says that God guides me along the right paths for God’s name’s sake. What does “For God’s name’s sake” mean?

3. How do we align our path with God’s path? What parts of your life do you think may have to be detoured through in order to
align with God’s path in your life?

4. Read Psalm 23 aloud. What does this passage say about God?
What does it say about you?

1. Where, in the midst of a trial or trouble in your life, have you experienced God setting a table for you and allowing you to rest?

2. What is significant about the table? What happens around tables in our lives?

3. Some would say the point of the table is not the meal, its the relationship. Why is it important that God would want to deepen
our relationship in the midst of our battles?

4. At the time of David, tables were not lugged out onto a battlefield or food. Often a table would only make an appearance at the
time of negotiation. So let's flip the script a bit. How do you feel about the table being a table between you and your enemies with
God on your side of the table? What does that image mean to
you?

1. The kingdom of God is being made real “on earth as it is in Heaven”. Have you experienced living in the kingdom of God?

2. We often think of God's kingdom as being on the other side of the resurrection. How does considering the kingdom being here
and now change how we look at the world?

3. Communion is a celebration of what Christ has done, is doing, and will do. Explain in your own words what Communion means
to you.

4. Read Psalm 23 again. What declarations from this Psalm do you
want to make over your life right now?