It is funny how Christians argue back and forth over the Father, Jesus Christ and make it look as the Father and the Son are are loggerheads over supremacy.
Even who to pray to between the Father and Jesus are means to create rivalry. It boils down to this, your essence of being a Christian goes beyond those unending argument making Jesus a rival of his Father.
Psalms 65: 2
O Hearer of prayer, to you people of all sorts* will come.
John 14: 13 Also, whatever YOU ASK in my NAME , I will do this, so that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I(Jesus not the Father)will do it.
How will Jesus do what you ask, petition or request in his name if indeed Jesus cannot hear your prayers?
Face reality stop chasing shadows. Jehovah and Jesus aren't at loggerheads regarding prayers.