Christ's prayer was not a request of God, it was an acknowledgement of what he knew of God. He provided it to all who followed him as a guide to show the range and depth of how we are all connected- to God and to each other as His/Her children.
To make "The Lord's Prayer" your own- take each line and think from the standpoint of Christ, of knowing you are the child of God, of knowing Him/Her completely, and being known by Him/Her completely. The Comforter is ours- we know the real meaning of each word, the underlying truth of our being, the Truth of who and what and where God is.
Here are examples of how to make the Lord's prayer a working prayer, how to reach for the depth of meaning in the words. It is the meaning that illuminates the divine reality and thereby heals us. Every time we pray we need to make it new, building on what we have learned, alive with our desire to know the divine wholeness.
Our Father
We are all formed in Your image.
Which art in Heaven
Heaven is where You are, and as You are everywhere,
We are here in heaven with You.
Hallowed be Thy Name
Holiness is ours.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.*
[*This beautiful phrasing is irreplaceable, and is from the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, as found in Chapter 1, page 16-17 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, with key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy ]
Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven
Your divine purpose of Good is complete here and now, in the world.
We are at once the objects and instruments of Your Goodness.
Give us this day our daily bread
You give us everything we need each instant.
All that You are is within us, and enables us to meet every circumstance rightly.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors
When we release others from the temptations , we are released.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Your Loving Father-Motherhood is expressed as the Word within.
You free us from the temptations of sin, disease, disorder, or death- from honoring any reality but You.
For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever.
You are the source of all power, and are the only being.
Amen