Have you ever experienced the “brass sky effect” when you pray? The “brass sky effect” means that you are praying faithfully, but you feel that the sky is brass and that your prayers never make it to God.
As we continue our series on prayer, we will start by celebrating answered prayer and then we will discuss reasons why sometimes He doesn’t answer our prayers. However, here is one insight as to what may be happening:
“13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (ESV)
Now, we no longer live in an agrarian society but an industrial one, so we don’t feel the pressure of drought and plight like the farmers of old times did. We are experiencing the last of those …. “pestilence among my people.” Yet, in times of “brass skies,” we often are spiritually dry.
According to this passage, the cure to “brass skies” and spiritual drought is to return to the LORD with all your heart. That means, first, humbling yourself. Put aside your pride long enough to acknowledge that you haven’t lived perfectly before God. (No one has, except Jesus.) Confess this sin to God and ask for His forgiveness. Seek Him through prayer, and TURN away from your sin; don’t keep doing it. Then, He promises that He will “hear from heaven." The brass skies will be gone. Further, He promises He "will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
The Brass Sky
Have you ever experienced the “brass sky effect” when you pray? The “brass sky effect” means that you are praying faithfully, but you feel that the sky is brass and that your prayers never make it to God.
As we continue our series on prayer, we will start by celebrating answered prayer and then we will discuss reasons why sometimes He doesn’t answer our prayers. However, here is one insight as to what may be happening:
“13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (ESV)
Now, we no longer live in an agrarian society but an industrial one, so we don’t feel the pressure of drought and plight like the farmers of old times did. We are experiencing the last of those …. “pestilence among my people.” Yet, in times of “brass skies,” we often are spiritually dry.
According to this passage, the cure to “brass skies” and spiritual drought is to return to the LORD with all your heart. That means, first, humbling yourself. Put aside your pride long enough to acknowledge that you haven’t lived perfectly before God. (No one has, except Jesus.) Confess this sin to God and ask for His forgiveness. Seek Him through prayer, and TURN away from your sin; don’t keep doing it. Then, He promises that He will “hear from heaven." The brass skies will be gone. Further, He promises He "will forgive their sin and heal their land.”