A persons relationship with God

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Is a persons relationship with God direct?

Begin more specific, we often ask, say, a priest or Saint to pray for us or in the case of a Saint, to intercede before God on our behalf. Is this necessary? Surely God does not need mediation.
 
dmn777 said:
Hello,

Is a persons relationship with God direct?

Begin more specific, we often ask, say, a priest or Saint to pray for us or in the case of a Saint, to intercede before God on our behalf. Is this necessary? Surely God does not need mediation.
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Do you ever ask anyone to pray for you?
 
I do not see the point. Prayers do not gain value in accumulation. You have all the talents to pray for yourself. Just pray with a sincere heart.
 
Is it necessary? No - Jesus explicitly says God desires relationship with us (John 16:27).

Is it desireable? Yes - Scripture encourages us to pray for one another (James 5:16). Paul asked for prayer in almost all his letters. Since death does not separate us (Romans 8:38-39, Luke 20:38), we can continue to pray for those on earth when we are in heaven, as Revelation 5:8 shows. And, we who are still here can ask those who have gone before us to pray for/with us.

Are these mutually exclusive? Obviously not.
 
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Begin more specific, we often ask, say, a priest or Saint to pray for us or in the case of a Saint, to intercede before God on our behalf. Is this necessary? Surely God does not need mediation.
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Necessary? No. Just because it’s not necessary doesn’t mean it’s not good, however. No Catholic does it 100% of the time, because a lot of the prayers at the Mass have the people praying directly to God.

God, of course, does not need mediation. Sometimes, we feel more comfortable with it. As dmelosi pointed out, it is just like asking a friend to pray for you, except the friend is in Heaven already and isn’t going to forget because of getting too busy. 🙂

–Jen
 
Just an addition, Im speaking about personal intentions. It is true that global direction could likely change with accumulative prayer.
 
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And thank you NHInsider. Wise words.
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Indeed, NHInsider. If we hadn’t posted at almost exactly the same moment, I would probably not have bothered posting, since your response was very good. 😃

–Jen
 
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