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Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 25,

So I lay prostrate before the Lord,

for these forty days and forty nights,

because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

What a verse.

Wow, when you think about the meaning of this verse

and what it represents, so Moses is recounting

when God's people formed a golden calf

and bowed down and worshipped it and indulged in all kinds of

immorality flowing from this idolatry.

And God said he was going to destroy his people like all of them.

And Moses interceded on their behalf.

The stories in Exodus chapter 32,

Moses prayed to God for them.

He stood in the gap and pleaded for God's mercy.

He pleaded for God to relent his wrath

and in an awesome picture of intercession

and the power of prayer.

God hears Moses' words,

sees Moses' intercession and does exactly what Moses asked.

He relents showing his wrath and he displays his mercy

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