出埃及記32:9-16

32:9 耶和華對摩西說：「我看這百姓真是硬著頸項的百姓。
32:10 你且由著我，我要向他們發烈怒，將他們滅絕，使你的後裔成為大國。」
32:11 摩西便懇求耶和華─他的上帝說：「耶和華啊，你為甚麼向你的百姓發烈怒呢？這百姓是你用大力和大能的手從埃及地領出來的。
32:12 為甚麼使埃及人議論說『他領他們出去，是要降禍與他們，把他們殺在山中，將他們從地上除滅』？求你轉意，不發你的烈怒，後悔，不降禍與你的百姓。
32:13 求你記念你的僕人亞伯拉罕、以撒、以色列。你曾指著自己起誓說：『我必使你們的後裔像天上的星那樣多，並且我所應許的這全地，必給你們的後裔，他們要永遠承受為業。』」
32:14 於是耶和華後悔，不把所說的禍降與他的百姓。
32:15 摩西轉身下山，手裡拿著兩塊法版。這版是兩面寫的，這面那面都有字，
32:16 是上帝的工作，字是上帝寫的，刻在版上。

⁹ “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰ Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
¹¹ But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. ¹³ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” ¹⁴ Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
¹⁵ Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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    摩西知道上帝非常痛惡以色列人的悖逆，但是他清楚上帝和以色列的祖先力永遠的約，所以向上帝求：「求你記念你的僕人亞伯拉罕、以撒、以色列。你曾指著自己起誓說：『我必使你們的後裔像天上的星那樣多，並且我所應許的這全地，必給你們的後裔，他們要永遠承受為業。』」

    上帝喜悅摩西這樣的禱告，祂的反應是：「於是耶和華後悔，不把所說的禍降與他的百姓。」

    可見禱告不是求自己的好處，是要照上帝的應許和啟示來禱告，使上帝真正的旨意可以成就！這就是摩西常常在上帝面前為百姓禱告，使上帝息怒，沒有照祂的怒氣成就！

    其實主耶穌的禱告，比摩西更蒙上帝的喜悅，祂不僅是在上帝面前以中保的地位代求，更以十字架的贖價來使上帝喜悅，好讓人與上帝和好！