I have had a number of both Protestants and Catholics make statements like that to me. These days I usually gently suggest to them that may indicate a potential problem they may have with their heavenly Father.
Comments like that remind me of Peter when Jesus is preparing to wash the disciples' feet in John 13. Peter in his pride and fear says to Jesus, 6b "Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” RSVCE
Or of the older brother is the story of the prodigal son, Jesus is actually answering the Pharisees and the scribes by telling a series of parables of which this story is one. The prodigals are the tax collectors and sinners whom the Pharisees and the scribes despise. And the Pharisees and the scribes are the older brother.
The story is really about 2 lost sons, one who wandered away into a life of rebellious living and who squandered his inheritance but finally came to his senses. And the other older son who lived in close proximity to his father but never really knew his father or his father's heart and who probably never asked his generous father for anything but rather worked hard at being "good". In other words, the older brother never entered into a real relationship with his father. For if he had, he probably would have passed his father running down the road to welcome his "lost" brother and joined in the welcome home party with rejoicing.
You see if we don't ask God for anything, we are failing to see our need for what only He can supply for us. We aren't letting Him into our hearts where He can begin addressing our fears, our wounds and our sin and changing us into the likeness of His Son. We only open up to people we trust so if we are not open with God, it means that we do not trust Him and are keeping at a distance. Instead we are trying to wash the outside of our cups while rotting within.
We need to pray for others but we also need to pray for ourselves. As Jesus said in Luke 11,
9 "And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” RSVCE
