God can set a table in the wilderness. And that attention to how God is at work even in the desert may be a clue to how God is shaping, forming, and leading us to be who he needs us to be when he sets us in the promised land.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 - For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me...
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you...