Thanks for your testimony Towboat regarding your healing, that is truly an awesome thing. God is awesome.
To the OP & others, you can have direct access to go to God thru the sacrificial & atoning blood of Jesus. He is the only one you can & must go thru. As Grizs mentioned it is ALL about Jesus & your relationship with Him that gives you the right to approach & petition God in prayer.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
Heb. 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
I might as well mention, if you want to be cursed then go ahead & bow down in front of a statue (call it whoever you want) & pray to it or wear some religious jewelry & believe it is going to some how supernaturally protect you. The Bible clearly says this is idolatry & a form of witchcraft & that God hates it. That also goes for gremlin bells for that matter, gimme a break all you "bad", mean lookin', bikers out there.
Read Deuteronomy 4:15-24 and Ex. 20:4 for just two examples there are many others throughout scriptures.
Exodus 20 - one of the ten commandments.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
There are numerous religious organizations who for centuries have twisted & misconstrued the word of God to gain & hold control over people. One of these is the Catholic church, no wonder it has martyred those who would dare publish the bible without the "church's" authorization & have murdered countless #s of Jews, muslims, & Christians for not bowing to the pope's decrees.
Not trying to bash catholics, but we all know where this "praying to saints" thing comes from. Do a little research on the history, even from catholic sources, of the catholic church & its practices & determine for yourself if God birthed this organization or men for their own purposes did. Not trying to say catholics are evil, stupid, or foolish, just misinformed & being led astray.
The good news is that God loves us & doesn't desire that any of us perish, but that we all come to a saving & life changing knowledge & relationship with Jesus.
We have His word, an infallible instruction book, & His Holy Spirit that will lead & guide us to His truth if we let Him.