After asking for the need to have a Savior when we are broken in spirit, should not prayer be praise and thanks and waiting and resting in and listening? Our other needs and wants seem not worth praying for.
Philippians 4:12-13 (NIV) I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
I think I understand what you're saying here, and the quote from St. Paul is excellent.
On the other hand, Jesus Himself taught us to pray for our daily bread as well as all of our other needs, to pray as children do their Father (and anything children can innocently want, they can innocently ask their Father for).
I know I, myself, wuld do well to learn to serenely ask for God's will to be done, and leave it at that without further perturbation. But is it our nature, even at our best, to be so unperturbed? Jesus Himself wept when He heard of Lazarus' death; He suffered anxiety and anguish in the Garden, and not without struggle did He finally pray "Not my will, but Thine be done."
If I may ask, please pray for me and I will for you.
In related news, I realized that — IN ME — not telling God what I want was an act of spiritual pride. I confessed it in my last confessions before Xmas.
One aspect of it was by not asking I cut myself of from all that I could learn if God says no.
So now I ask and learn.