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I'm overflowing with sinfulness and worthlessness, and if ever there is anything good to be found in me or to come from me it is only by the grace of God working in me.I don't have a patron saint and have never directed petitions to them or sought their aid and I've never been told to do so by the Holy Spirit. I address my prayers to the Father. The absence of prayers to saints haven't hindered His healing, blessings, provision, favor, and grace. I'm overflowing in each.
God's saints are, by His grace, full of His Love that He has for all of us, and they pray for our salvation whether we know it or not (i.e. are ignorant of the reality of their doing it), and whether we believe it or not (i.e. refuse to accept it as true). If you are overflowing in each of these blessings, as you say, then it could well be that God has answered their prayers for you.
Overflowing with Godly blessings would also mean "overflowing with Godly humility" (Galatians 5:22-23), which would cause us not to credit ourselves and our own prayers, or to have such high regard for ourselves and our prayers, as to discredit the power of the prayers of the righteous (James 5:16)
Incidentally, I pray directly to God the Father too (not to mention the Son, and the Holy Spirit). But it never hurts to seek prayers for oneself from saints, both those still here on earth and those who have passed from death to Life and whose spirits are with the Lord. (Philippians 1:21-24)
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