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I would say you were wrong to do such things, for dead saints in Heaven are very humble people with absolutely NO ability to ask God to do anything for you.

YOU on the other hand, are responsible to speak to God directly.

To try to speak to anyone else is blasphemy, you are ascribing qualities that belong to God alone, to others, whether they be sints or angels.

Rev. 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of sweet fragrances, which are the prayers of God's faithful.

This represents the elders, the saints in heaven, offering to God the prayers of his faithful on earth.

My brother, surely you believe that we are all members of one Body, which is the Body of Christ. Over and over again, in I Corinthians, Romans, Colossians, St. Paul repeats his magnificent theme that the members of one Body all love one another, all rely on each other, all need each other and all communicate with each other.

Do you imagine that once you are in heaven, you are no longer a member of the Body of Christ? You are cut off? Or you do not love as much? Or you are no longer able to pray for your loved ones in heaven as you once did upon earth?

What is you belief, really? That while in heaven you love less? You pray less? You care less? Or you are less in communion with the Body of Christ, which includes all who are joined to Him (and you) on earth?

Surely life in heaven occasions a vast expansion of knowledge, love, and prayer, not a diminishment. Or do you think God says, "I don't listen to these people: they're dead"? If that's the case, it's a pretty poor heaven.

But thank God we are all part of the Body of Christ, even if some of us give the impression of "I don't need you."

You are my fellow Christian, and I need you.

I would say you were wrong to do such things, for dead saints in Heaven are very humble people with absolutely NO ability to ask God to do anything for you.

Race, it looks like someone already answered your question about Saints in heaven offering intercessions to God, thought you'd be interested in the follwowing scripture regarding "dead" saints.

23 The same day Sad'ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question..........But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, 32 'I AM the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living." 33 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching." Matthew 22:23-33