help me please

[IanGE]

Don’t know about a saint, but how about a prayer recommended by a guy named Jesus Christ. When asked by his followers how to pray he said this (you can read Matthew 6:5 to see I’m not making it up): "When you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen. This, then, is how you should pray:

Our Father in Heaven, May your holy name be honoured; may your kingdom come; may your will on Earth be done as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need. Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us. Do not bring us to hard testing, but keep us safe form the Evil One".

When God incarnate as man tells us how to pray, that’s all you need. No priest, no saint, no prophet can give you a newer model prayer that supercedes the one straight out of the Lord’s own mouth. Take it. Pray it. And do it alone, in your room, as Christ commanded. That is all you need to pray. Christ the King proclaimed it so. God Bless.

Love the rendering from the Greek/Koine(?). My personal one is “Father of Ours, in the Heavens (plural), Your Name IS utterly The Holiest of Holies. Let (by all including little me) your Knigdom come; Let your will be done, as perfectly as it is ordered in Heaven, so also on Earth. Give us this day the THINGS WE NEED (arton = bread, also the necessities of life), Forgive us our wrongs FOR (because) we have already forgiven those who have wronged us. Put us not to the test but RESCUE us from the evil one. For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, through the ages of ages. AMEN”
BTW Luke (apostle to the Gentiles) writes in Koine: “Give us THIS day”. Matthew the cautious Jew, makes it “Give us EACH day”. (Just in case we don’t ask tomorrow!!!). Also, the word translated as “sins, trespasses, wrongs” (hamartias) is literally “missing the mark”. How gentle Jesus was/is! ("I come not to condemn…).
An alternative but equally supporting theology is that Jesus said "pray LIKE this: not verbatim word for word necessarily but in this PATTERN:
PRAISE Your Father in the Heavens (Father: a staggering thought back then and even now when He reminds me not to be too flippant!);
Submit yourself to Him;
Put your petitions before Him;
Act of contrition. Gently reminding Father that with Him ALL things are possible!
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PS Long ago I asked the Lord why did He create Satan. Life would be wonderfully easy without him poking us all the time. He answered “because I love you all, Ian.” Still trying to work that one out! I guess the testing and purifying is essential!