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Deuteronomy chapter 9, verse 25.

So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these 40 days and 40 nights

because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

What a verse.

Like, 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's words, sees Moses' intercession and does exactly what Moses asked.

He relents showing his wrath, and he displays his mercy in response to Moses' intercession.

And this verse that's recounting that, Moses says,

So I lay prostrate before the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights.

For 40 days and 40 nights, this picture of Moses pleading to God for his mercy.

What a powerful picture of intercession.

Like, do you and I pray like this?

When you and I think about the people of God around us, do we pray for one another like this?

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