Do you ask your friends to pray for you? Intercessory prayer is asking your friends known to be in heaven (i.e., saints) to pray for you.
There is a long tradition in the bible of asking others to pray for you.
Roman 15:30 — I beseech you therefore brethren by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God.
“Do you ask your friends to pray for you? Intercessory prayer is asking your friends known to be in heaven (i.e., saints) to pray for you.”
Intercessions are made by living believers.
There is no example in the Bible of anyone who is dead making intercession for anyone else. Nor is there any example of anyone praying to the dead for the living.
Isaiah 8:19-20
And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Roman 15:30 — I beseech you therefore brethren by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God.
Rom 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayersG4335 to God for me;
G4335
προσευχή
proseuchē
pros-yoo-khay'
From G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel): - X pray earnestly, prayer.
G4336
proseuchomai
pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
From G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: - pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
Whenever anyone is "prayed to" in the sciptures, it is always prayer to God, and only God...Always...