Neal A. Maxwell wrote:
It should not surprise us as we grow if we are sometimes less than fully comprehending of prayer. The Lord’s disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1) Jesus then gave us a marvelous model of what prayer should be. Yet even this model did not suffice for the needs of Gethsemane. Nor was it as sublime as His prayers given in special circumstances after His resurrection when Jesus prayed among the surviving Nephites (3 Nephi 17:15-18.) The point is obviously not to detract from the tutoring nature of the wonderful Lord’s prayer, but to underscore how prayers will reflect circumstance; no single prayer will suffice for all circumstances!
There are no Christlike prayers, however, that do not include, as did the Lord’s Prayer, deeper expression of gratitude and appreciation to our Father in Heaven along with a submittal to Him. ~Neal A. Maxwell . . . from ‘A Year of Powerful Prayer’ (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 80
