Is there a different between praying to God or praying to Jesus?

Question

I'm not very religious but I pray to God. But when I went to a church with a friend they pray to Jesus. So I guess my question is there a difference?

Answer 1

Yes. Pray in Jesus' name. Pray to the Father in Jesus' name. He is intercessor on your behalf.

In this manner pray...
Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
in earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
But deliver us from evil.
[For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.] Amen.

John 14:13-14, “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him" (1 John 5:14-15)

Saying, “In Jesus’ name” at the end of a prayer is not a magic formula. If what you asked for or said in prayer was not for God’s glory and according to His will, saying “In Jesus’ name” is meaningless. Genuinely praying in Jesus' name and for His glory is what is important, not attaching certain words to the end of a prayer. It is not the words in the prayer that matter, but the purpose behind the prayer. Praying for things that are in agreement with God’s will is the essence of praying in Jesus’ name.

Answer 2

Yes. Good Question. Jesus was put on this earth as a person by God. King of Kings. Not to be worshipped, any more than the Queen of England, Michael Jordan, or any other great person. Admired, respected, yes. Prayed to no.

Answer 3

Jssus is God Incarnate so Christian pray to Him or in His Name. All Prayer to the Father goes through Jesus as the One Mediator between God and humanity in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Wow! I am amazed by how many people can quickly say that the Bible is a sham and God is not real. My bet is that they have not done any research into the issue with an open mind and allow themselves to truly question the reality of God.

You know it says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 :

4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

This means that those who are so caught up in the sins of this world will not see or hear the Gospel of Christ as truth because they are blinded by the god of this age (Satan).

This does not mean they are Satan worshippers, but only that they are so engulfed in sin that they become blinded to the truth.

It takes more faith to not believe in God than it takes to believe in God!!

God Bless you all.

Answer 5

When you pray you should pray to Jesus. That is what Jesus means when He says no one comes to the Father but by me. Jesus is our intercessor.

Francine

Answer 6

I'm not a Christian but I find it odd that some Christians pray to God AND to Jesus, as this is in direct contradiction to one of the ten commandments:

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"

Answer 7

yes. there is a very big difference. praying to god is the right thing to do, because if you are praying to jesus this means you are praying to a human. jesus is a man who god gave powers to so that he can help and make the people believe in god. you should pray to god for wat you have and for jesus.

Answer 8

There is one God in three persons. The Father, the Son (Jesus Christ God incarnate, God who came as a human being fully God and fully man),and teh Holy Spirit. St. Patirck used the shamrock to illustrate this. God is of course too vast to be understood by human beings, although we can know God personally, because He came as a human being Jesus, particualalry in the sacrament of the Holy Eurchrist (Holy Communion). I have a personal realtionship with Jesus every time I eat His body and drink His blood in communion, as He told me to do in the Gospels particularly the Gospel of John. As John tells us this is a hard teaching, but it is the words of eternal life.

Answer 9

Jesus always asked for prayers to be directed to his Father in heaven. Not himself.
Jesus himself prayed to his Father.
(Luke 11:2) Then he said to them: “Whenever YOU pray, say, ‘Father, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come.
This is Jesus talking about his Father, not himself.
(John 14:6) Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus is the ONLY channel for prayer.
The prayer we are most familiar with, the Lord's Prayer [ Matthew 6; 9-13 is directed, not to Jesus, but to Almighty God
And considering this scripture;
(Matthew 14:19-20) Next he commanded the crowds to recline on the grass and took the five loaves and two fishes, and, looking up to heaven, he said a blessing and, after breaking the loaves, he distributed them to the disciples, the disciples in turn to the crowds. 20 So all ate and were satisfied, and they took up the surplus of fragments, twelve baskets full.
Who was Jesus praying to?
If Jesus were God himself, it would be like praying to yourself, the utmost in egotism.
But he was not. He was humbly praying to his Father in heaven.

Answer 10

There sure is, Young Lady.

You pray to God because your instinct, given you by God the Father, tells you that is the right way to start.
These other places who pray to Jesus or to Mary, do so out of some traditional framework of their religion, whereas when you do deal with God, you do so without preconceived ideas and teachings, and it comes from your heart.

Jesus himself, taught, that 'Ye should ask the Father in my name, and He shall give it ye."
Further, when He gave us an example of how to pray He said:

"After this manner then, pray ye:
"Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name [See, even here, Jesus expalins that we are addressing the Father so we can hallow His name], He went on "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven", etc., etc.

Jesus taught that we should not pray to Him but to the Father.

Answer 11

well some religions think jesus is god and most people say that u should never pray to jesus only to god don knw y?