“You’re not too much for God.” A Sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost 2025

A sermon preached in the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost at the student service for the St. Thomas Aquinas Episcopal Campus Ministry at West Virginia UniversityFocus Texts: Genesis 32:22-31; Luke 18:1-8Many people get this idea in their heads that they shouldn’t bother God with their problems or that other people’s prayer needs are more important than their own. But this scarcity mindset doesn’t accurately reflect the creator of the universe who seeks nothing more or less than to be your closest and dearest friend. God seeks an intimate relationship with all of us, and nothing is too little or too big to share with Him. There is no “too much” when it comes to the prayers that we lift up to the Lord. You’re not a burden and you’re not too much — You are God’s beloved. Jesus teaches us not to hold back, but to persevere in prayer