In that sense, you pray to people here on earth every day.
This was clearer in, say, Shakespeare's day, when "pray" is commonly used by a person making a request:
"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.""Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you."
"I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two."
That's the sense in which we're using the word.
We both reach out, get in contact with, ask for help, pray, to people here on earth on a fairly frequent basis. And we both --- I think --- believe in intercessory prayer. So please keep that in mind --- and pray for me, I pray!
This was clearer in, say, Shakespeare's day, when "pray" is commonly used by a person making a request:
"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."
You posted the xtra word that makes all the difference...You or thee...I pray thee, or you...That's a request...Whey you pray (to), it is worship...