Does God pray to Himself?

Let us read the Bible

Mark 14:32 "and he (Jesus) saith to his disciples, Sit ye

here, while I shall pray."
Luke 3:21: "Now when all the people were baptized, it
came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and
praying, the heaven was opened."
Luke 6:12: "And it came to pass in those days, that he
went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all
night in prayer to God."
Luke 22:44 "And being in an agony he prayed more
earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of
blood falling down to the ground."
Matthew 26:39: "And he went a little farther, and fell
on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I
will, but as thou wilt."
All of these verses do not speak of Jesus (pbuh)
"meditating," "interceding," "consorting," or
"consulting," but PRAYING. But to whom? To
Himself? To another side of his own personality? Is
Jesus not "the same essence" as God, and all are one
Trinity? If Jesus and God are not "the same essence"
then this means that there is more than one God in
existence, and thus, we have just directly opposed verse,
after verse, after explicit verse of the Bible, all of which
emphasize that there ever was, and ever shall be, only
one God.
Further, Jesus (pbuh) and his disciples are continuously
being described in the Bible as "falling on their faces
and praying" which is exactly the way Muslims pray
today (see section 5.6). They pray the way Jesus (pbuh)
did. Have you ever seen a Christian "fall on his face"
and pray to God as Jesus (pbuh), Muhammad (pbuh),
and all Muslims do?

Mr. Tom Harpur says:

"In fact, unless we are prepared to believe that his

prayer-dependence on God was nothing more than a
sham for our edification, a mere act to set us a good
example, it is impossible to cling to the orthodox
teaching that Jesus was really God Himself walking
about in human form, the Second Person of the Trinity.
The concept of God praying - let alone praying to
Himself - is incomprehensible to me. To say that it was
simply the human side of Jesus talking to God the
Father (rather than his own divine nature as Son of
God) is to posit a kind of schizophrenia that is
incompatible with any belief in Jesus' full humanity"

For Christ's Sake, pp. 42-43.

Think about it, when we are told that Jesus was in the
 garden earnestly begging and pleading with God to
please, please save him saying "let this cup pass from
me" and "My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?" etc., then:

Was this all just a stage play for our benefit?

If not, then since there is only ONE God, and Jesus and
God are ONE God, then was Jesus praying to himself?
Why?
God has given us the answer in the Qur'an over 1400
years ago. He says:

"And from those who said: "We are Christians," We

took their covenant, but they forgot a good part of the
message which was sent to them. Therefore We have
stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the Day of
Resurrection, and Allah will inform them of what they
used to do. O people of the ******ure! Now has Our
messenger (Muhammad) come to you, explaining to you
much of that which you used to hide in the ******ure,
and forgiving much. Indeed, there has come to you a
light from Allah and a plain ******ure. Wherewith
Allah guides him who seeks His good pleasure unto
paths of peace. He brings them out of darkness by His
will into light, and guides them to a straight path. They
indeed have disbelieved who say: Lo! Allah is the
Messiah, son of Mary. Say : Who then has the least
power against Allah, if He had willed to destroy the
Messiah son of Mary, and his mother and everyone on
 earth? And to Allah belongs the dominion of the
heavens and the earth and all that is between them. He
creates what He will. And Allah is Able to do all things.
The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and
His loved ones. Say; Why then does He punish you for
your sins? No, you are but mortals of His creating. He
forgives whom He will, and punishes whom He will.
And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and
the earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is
the return (of all). O people of the ******ure! Now has
Our messenger (Muhammad) come unto you to make
things plain after a break in (the series of) the
messengers, lest you should say: There came not unto us
a messenger of cheer nor any Warner. Now has a
messenger of cheer and a Warner come unto you. And
Allah is Able to do all things."

The noble Qur'an, Al-Maidah(5):14-19