"Suppose it had been My"?

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,^(AT) 44 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve....Mark 10:43-45

The first work of the Lord’s Prayer- “Our” (Matthew 6:9)- determines the very nature of the Christian faith. Supposed it had been “My”. That would have changed the whole nature of the Christian faith. Instead of our faith being “our”- centered it would be “my”- centered- and that would’ve us off wrong.

In the field of prayer, as in many other fields, to start wrong is to finish wrong. The word “our” involves a shifting of emphasis from me to the Father and to my brothers and sisters in the kingdom. It implies a renunciation- a renunciation- a renunciation of myself. We see something similar in the first words of the Beatitudes; “Blessed are the poor in spirit” (the renounced in spirit) “because the kingdom of heaven is theirs”. All the resources of God’s kingdom belong to those who are renounced in spirit. So the first word of the Lord’s Prayer, we find an implied demand that we adopt an attitude of self-surrender- to the Father and to His interest and the interest of others in His kingdom. If we do this, then everything opens to us. If not, then everything is closed. 

The rest of the Lord’s Prayer has no meaning and dies if “our” is not alive.

This “our” must stretch beyond our own fellowship, local church, or denomination to include the whole family, of God- everywhere. We will never get very far in prayer unless we come to it prepared to sacrifice, self-interest and willing to merge into God’s greater plan for the whole

Still hungry? Luke 18:9- Mark 10:35-45