Ellen G. White

Pryer at Baptism: He received baptism at the hands of John, and in comming up out of the water he bowed upon Jordan's banks, and offered up a prayer to Heaven.... Jesus was accepeted of Heaven as a representative of human race. With all our sin and weakness, we are not cast aside as worthless; we are acceptedin the Beloved; for heaven has been opened to our petitions through the Son of God. The gates are ajar, and the light of heaven will shine upon all those whom Jesus came to save, if they will but come wihin the circle of the beams of the Son of Righteouness; for ample provision has been made for the salvation of every soul.