Pray to Jesus

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The Enemy of Christ both opposes the true Jesus and offers a substitute Jesus.

This is how you will be able to know whether it is God’s Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God. But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already. – 1 John 4:2-3 GNT

The evil one doesn’t care at all if you know Jesus or love Jesus or pray to Jesus – as long as it is a false Jesus, a make-believe Jesus, a Jesus who is not there, and who therefore cannot save.

The Inclination, Disposition and frame of the mind, in all its Affections whereby it adheres and cleaves unto spiritual things. This minding of the Spirit resides habitually in the Affections. Wherefore the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the Spirit, or the mind as renewed and acted by a spiritual Principle of light and life, is the Exercise of its Thoughts, Meditations and desires on spiritual things, proceeding from the Love and delight of its Affections in them, and engagement unto them. – John Owen