The simple and profound prayer presented as a model by the Savior is the epitome of humble supplication before our Father in Heaven. The New Testament version of the Lord’s Prayer includes the phrase: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). In teaching the Saints in America, the resurrected Lord omits the words “Thy kingdom come”—perhaps because He is, in the very act of establishing a new dispensation among His “other sheep” in America, delivering unto them His kingdom, which will endure in its fulness for several generations.
It is interesting, also, that the New Testament phrase “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11) is not used in the Book of Mormon version of the Lord’s Prayer. Scholarly opinion offers this logical explanation: “It is noteworthy that the phrase ‘Give us this day our daily bread,’ found in Matthew, is missing from the Bountiful sermon. This omission, though subtle, is intentional. In Galilee, the counsel to pray for daily bread, though appropriate and praiseworthy for all members of the Church, was directed specifically to the Twelve, those who would serve full-time missions and would work without purse or scrip. Their daily prayer needed to be for food and drink in order to sustain life. In Bountiful the phrase is omitted, inasmuch as this portion of the sermon is directed to the entire multitude, a people whose daily work would sustain them (see 3 Nephi 12:1)” (Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 4 vols. [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987–1992], 4:83).