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So, if you explicitly and literally follow those instructions from Jesus that you quoted there ("When you pray, say...", you would never say ANY OTHER prayer using ANY OTHER words but the exact, specific words of the "Lord's Prayer", saying exactly what Jesus explicitly stated you should say there in Luke (or the more widely used variant in Matthew) -- the "Our Father".
Do you honestly and perfectly adhere to that, making the only prayer that you ever pray the "Our Father", or do you take that as just one form of prayer advocated and approved by Jesus, but not the only words to use, or the only good prayer, and personally say other prayers as well, using completely different words, which Jesus did NOT explicitly specify in Matthew or Luke or anywhere else in the Bible?
I would also argue that if one only follows the “Our Father”, one could only pray “TO” the Father and not “TO” Jesus.