Priest: And make us worthy, Master, with confidence and without fear of condemnation, to dare to call You, the heavenly God, Father, and to say:

People: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread;and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.

Priest: For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory, of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages.

People: Amen.

(The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom - pp 26-27)

The Lord`s prayer is the most common prayer of a Christian. It was taught by our Lord Himself to His disciples, when they asked Him how they need to pray.
The Lord`s prayer is a communal prayer. It brings us all together, as children of God. Even when we are alone, we always say "Our Father."

The Lord`s prayer reminds us Christians that we live in expectation of the Kingdom to come. We live in this world, but we really belong to the Heavenly Kingdom, we are messengers of the Kingdom, proclaiming the Kingdom by word and by deed. Hence our main prayer is for the Kingdom to come speedily, for the Name of the Lord to be proclaimed, and for His will to be done in this world just as it is in the heavenly realm.

In the Lord`s prayer, we do not ask for anything personal, because God knows what our needs are even before we ask Him (Matt. 6:8). Instead, we ask Him to grant us the gifts that are most necessary for our salvation.

Foremost among these is the "heavenly bread," which is the Eucharist. The translation "daily bread" is somewhat misleading. A better rendition is "Our Bread for Tomorrow, give it to us Today." This too is a reference to the Kingdom—the Bread for Tomorrow is the heavenly bread that we will partake of in the Kingdom, that even now connects us to the reality of the Kingdom to come. The Eucharist is what we need most in order to live, more so than the material bread, since "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." (Matt. 4:4).

After the Eucharist, we ask for forgiveness of sins (or of debts). While we ask this, we also make a commitment to forgive those who have sinned against us, who are indebted to us. How can we expect to be forgiven the huge debt that we owe to God if we are unwilling to forgive the much smaller debts owed to us by our brothers?

Finally, we pray that the Lord does not tempt us beyond our ability, that He does not abandon us to temptation but rather shields us from evil, especially from the greatest evil which is idolatry—to worship the world instead of its Creator. Other interpreters translate the last verse as "deliver us from the evil one," the devil—archenemy of mankind.

Amen—so be it!