Isn't it enough to just pray for myself?

This is where people begin to say, oh, I can just pray for myself, even if there is a cloud of witnesses. That is not what James teaches in his epistle, chapter 5. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the presbyters of the church, meaning the priests, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.

Confess therefore your trespasses one to another. And here is the main point: pray one for another, that ye may be healed, for the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James instructs us to pray for each other. People do not pray directly to God alone only. It is a conglomeration of prayers. Sometimes we pray for ourselves, sometimes we pray for other people, sometimes other people pray for us, and sometimes we ask other people, even the saints, that they would pray for us.

Why? Because we are surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses, all together offering up our prayers, which are offered up by the angels, mixed with the smoke of the incense in heaven that we see in the book of Revelation. So if any man says that the Orthodox are strange or wrong or unbiblical for asking the intercessions or the prayers of the saints, let him be corrected by the Holy Scriptures themselves.

It is very clear from the New Testament that the saints prayed for the faithful, the saints worked miracles for the faithful, and the saints continue to intercede for us and continue to work miracles for us, because God has given them that authority and that power, which is God's alone. God bless you.