Oct 10【每日活水】为群体的恢复祷告

 

申命记9:22~29

22「你们在他备拉、玛撒、基博罗‧哈他瓦又惹耶和华发怒。 
23  耶和华打发你们离开加低斯‧巴尼亚,说:『你们上去得我所赐给你们的地。』那时你们违背了耶和华-你们 神的命令,不信服他,不听从他的话。 
24  自从我认识你们以来,你们常常悖逆耶和华。
25「我因耶和华说要灭绝你们,就在耶和华面前照旧俯伏四十昼夜。 
26  我祈祷耶和华说:『主耶和华啊,求你不要灭绝你的百姓。他们是你的产业,是你用大力救赎的,用大能从埃及领出来的。 
27  求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各,不要想念这百姓的顽梗、邪恶、罪过, 
28  免得你领我们出来的那地之人说,耶和华因为不能将这百姓领进他所应许之地,又因恨他们,所以领他们出去,要在旷野杀他们。 
29  其实他们是你的百姓,你的产业,是你用大能和伸出来的膀臂领出来的。』」

22  You also made the Lord angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.
23  And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him. 
24  You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.
25  I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 
26  I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 
27  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. 
28  Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’ 
29  But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.”
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内容观察

1.当摩西听到神要灭绝以色列百姓,有何反应?(25节)

2.摩西跪在神面前祷告什么?(26~27节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.摩西为何祈求神不要灭绝以色列百姓?
 

个人感受

4.看到摩西为神和以色列百姓的关系恢复祷告,你有什么感受?
 

决心与应用

5.你都是如何为群体来祷告?

6.现在,你认为教会或所属群体,有哪些事项最需要迫切的祷告?

他备拉、玛撒、基博罗.哈他瓦…加低斯.巴尼亚(22~23节):以色列人在这四个地方悖逆神。民11:1“百姓发怨言,恶言传达到耶和华的耳中。耶和华听见了就怒气发作,耶和华的火在他们中间焚烧。烧毁营的外围。
出17:2“百姓就与摩西争阔、说:“给我们水喝吧!’摩西对他们设:‘你们为甚么与我争闲呢?你们为甚么试探耶和华呢?”
民11:4“他们中间的闲杂人动了贪欲的心;以色列人又再哭着说:“谁给我们肉吃呢?”。”

灵修指南

摩西提到以色列百姓过往不顺从神的经历(22节)。以色列百姓在他备拉发怨言(参民11:1),他们在玛撒因水的问题与摩西争闹(参出17:2),于基博罗.哈他瓦私欲、求肉吃(参民11:4),并且在加低斯·巴尼亚质疑神而不肯进人迦南(23节)。但当摩西听到神要灭绝犯罪的以色列百姓时,却为他们在神面前祷告40昼夜(25节)。以色列百姓是亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的后代,他们是神的产业,也是神用大力救赎,用大能从埃及领出的子民,这是摩西求神饶恕他们的理由(26~27节)。当我们看见自身群体的需要时,是否也会如此来为群体祷告?真正恢复健康的群体是从真诚的祷告开始,今天,你是否也在为群体祷告?

 

内室祷告

虽知群体的软弱,求神让我仍为所属群体恳切地祷告。

 

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