Often we see in the Bible that people prayed to the Lord. Both God and Jesus are the Lord.
The prayers of the Saints are offered to both to The Lamb and to God. So both receive them in Heaven.
Revelation 5:6 does not say that Jesus is to be prayed to, for Jesus had already
fully established prayer to his
Father as the
only way.(John 14:6) Rather, there was concern in finding one who was worthy of opening the "scroll written within and on the reverse the side, sealed tight with seven seals."(Rev 5:1) Thus, at verse 6, "a lamb" was the only one worthy to open the seal, and after taking it "out of the right hand of the One seated on the throne" (verse 7), then the "four living creatures and twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb".(Rev 5:8) However, there is nothing said about these praying to the "Lamb", but instead that "the incense
means the prayers of the holy ones."(Rev 5:8)
If you had closely looked a little deeper, at Revelation 8:4, it says concerning the "incense": "And the smoke of the incense ascended from the hand of the angel with the
prayers of the holy ones before God", not Jesus Christ or the "Lamb". It is because of distorting and twisting the Bible, that the "tradition" of prayer to Jesus (and even to Mary and the "saints") has been accepted without regard for what Jesus had said.
Some Bible translations, in an attempt to promote this, has added words to the Bible, as at Acts 7:59, in which the
King James Bible reads: "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament makes this honest admission: “The word
God is not in the original, and should not have been in the translation. It is in none of the ancient [manuscripts] or versions.” How did the word “God” come to be inserted into that verse? Scholar Abiel Abbot Livermore called this “an instance of the
sectarian biases of the translators.” Most modern translations, therefore, eliminate this spurious reference to God. Thus, in order to foster the belief in the trinity, these translators have
dishonestly added the word "God" to Acts 7:59.
Many do not read the Bible with an eye toward what is accurate, but with bias and prejudice. It is no different than the religious leaders of Jesus day, whereby Jesus told them that they had made "the word of God
invalid because of your tradition."(Matt 15:6) He further told them: "You are searching the Scriptures, because you
think that by means of them you will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me."(John 5:39) These did not examine the Bible with "a clean heart"(1 Tim 1:5), but to distort such provisions as the sabbath under the Mosaic Law, even condemning God's Son.(Matt 12:1-7)
Hence, nowhere in the Bible is any
loyal servant of God praying to anyone else but God. For example, King Solomon, after the completion of the temple in Jerusalem and standing before the altar, spread his palms out to the heavens and said: "O Jehovah the God of Israel, there is no God like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath." (1 Kings 8:22, 23) He thus prayed to Jehovah God, even saying that "there is no God like you."
Every prayer is a form of worship. The
World Book Encyclopedia confirms this, stating: “Prayer is a form of worship in which a person may offer devotion, thanks, confession, or supplication to God.” On one occasion Jesus said: “It is written, ‘It is
Jehovah your God you must
worship, and it is to
him alone you must render
sacred service.’” (Luke 4:8) Jesus adhered to the fundamental truth that worship—hence also prayers—is to be addressed only to his Father, Jehovah God. At Luke 6:12, it says of Jesus before selecting his twelve apostles, that "in the progress of these days he went out into the mountain to pray, and he continued the whole night in
prayer to God."