The disciples asked, (Luke 11:1-4>“Lord, teach us to pray.” So Jesus gave them a pattern to follow when they prayed… Three essential elements of true prayer…
1st – A Conscious Sense of who and what we are in ourselves (v.4)
2nd – A Confident Sense of Jesus Christ as our mediator – (Jn 14:1,6) – We are accepted and our prayers are made acceptable—only because of who Jesus is and what He has done and continues to do (Jn 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-24).
3rd – A Biblical Mandate concerning the will of God (1 Jn 5:14-15)
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
