Just give me Jesus

I am in no way perfect, nor have I 'arrived' in my walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
However, I do have a 'bone to pick' with those who name the name of Christ {this 'bone picking' includes me, for I am at the top of the list}. In my home church, before we worship on Sundays, we all have breakfast and coffee. One thing the deacons do is take prayer requests, this is good. BUT, I am concerned with the nature of the requests; more often than not, our prayers seem to be fixated on the temporal, i.e., 'I pray for a better job', or, 'I pray for a good grade on my finals'. I agree, these are legitimate requests indeed. In my old church, the requests were similar, 'pray for my uncle to recover from the flu', or 'pray that my son will receive a shorter jail sentence for the crime he committed' {that was an actual request!}. What I am driving at is this, where is the prayer to be more like Christ? Where is the cry and pleas to simply walk as He did? Where is the weeping and wailing to be brought into His presence and His fullness?
As I read Acts 20:22-24, I am totally ashamed of myself. Read what the apostle Paul says, 'And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.{this would be enough to deter most of us from continuing on} -- {this next verse is the convicting one} But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.'

Paul's life was an example of what it looks like to have the power of God unleashed fully; to understand that your life is meaningless unless it is lived for Him is something few grasp in today's selfish materialistic society. Here was this ordinary man, not eloquent in speech {just as Moses wasn't}, and yet, God used him in a way that turned the world upside down. What kind of impact are we having on others for Christ, how many can even tell we are Christians?!?! The reason I am so adamant about this is because of the strong conviction I've come under; it seems I am more concerned with the here and now than the hereafter. May the LORD God bring each of us to nothing, emptying us of 'self' so that we may know the power of God on our lives and so we may see just how unimportant the temporal is when compared to the eternal. Let us meditate on this passage this day, ' Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ' Phil. 3:8
May our hearts desire this very thing, that we may gain Christ.