Now it is not wrong to ask a preacher, priest or such to pray with/for you,
If you pray to a saint .
Okay...lets try this again...
Note the words
"for," and
"to."
Put in another context: I gave a harley TO my wife FOR her birthday.
Note "TO" refers to a transfer of something (in this case a harley), while FOR refers to reason for the transfer (in this case her birthday). Note the disimilarly.
Now when some prays
to a saint...that is blaspemy. But when some one asks a saint to pray FOR them, that is perfectly acceptable. Why?
Well, first who are the saints?
They are the "holy people, or holy ones" of God. They can be preists, or preachers..as you correctly noted...or they can be simply your own friends and family that you may ask to pray FOR you in a certain circumstance...for example if you are sick or have bought a powerball lottery ticket. You likely ask them to pray for you because you believe that, for whatever reason, God will listen to them. Probably because you consider them, in some way, to be a "saint." (notice we never ask the devil to pray for us - or by coincidence-Jane Fonda).
A saint can also be dead, but be in heaven..particularly if they were a martyr for Christ. (See Rev 6:9 ). Because we know that the Saints are in heaven, and bring the prayers of the faithful to Christ, (Rev 8:3) we (some of us) ask the saints to pray FOR us. We SHOULD not pray
to them... that would be blasphemy. And we SHOULD not worship them, that would idolotry. We SHOULD not confuse them with being Gods, or God, or even angels, because they are the just people like you and me, "the holy ones of God."
The word saint fromt the latin sanctus, meaning "concecrated, or to be made holy." So any person, living or dead, can be asked to pray FOR you, because they, by means of their santification, are a part of the body of Christ. So just like Pig Pen, on the Charlie Brown Christmas show who takes pride in his dirt, we should take pride in our own "santification," by means of baptism, as being a part of the body of Chirst, and be proud that someone will ask us to pray FOR them (never to them).