quoting one sentence w/o the rest of my post takes it out of context
No, your post started with the words, "have you read 'God helps those who help themselves'?" The rest of you post illustrate that - i.e if you want something, don't just pray about it, DO something.
But that saying isn't Scriptural - I don't where a person is supposed to have read it, but it's not in the Bible.
yes, God will help us but people need to act in many cases
In many cases, maybe; but not all the time.
God helps those who can't help themselves, especially when it comes to healing and salvation.
people can't be lazy & expect God to do EVERYTHING
No, but it's also wrong to rush ahead and do something, assuming that you know that is what God wants.
If we use time and energy doing something that we think that God wants us to do and he doesn't, either we won't succeed or we will but we will have missed out on/not have the energy for the thing that God is really calling us to do.
i.e. people pray for a spouse but they won't date
they wait for God to send someone to their door
that did happen for my grandma
a man saw her outside her apt laughing with her friends
he later came to her door & asked her out...they married!
Well there you are then!
It's not the norm, maybe; but people can meet their future spouses/bosses in all kinds of circumstances.
I was thinking only the other day of a deaconess friend of mine who got a job she didn't even have an interest in. She saw an advert for a job which was in the town where her daughter lived - that was what made her look twice at it. But she had no plans to leave our church so she shut the paper and forgot about it. A little while later she got a phone call from someone (may have been a vicar or higher up) who said "have you applied for that job yet?" She said, "no, I have no plans to", but prayed about it and felt she should.
Incidentally, this same person had also been a nurse and met her husband when he was a patient on her ward and made a cheeky comment.
I have heard of others who have got jobs/callings they had never even considered - I would even say that my own calling as a preacher comes into that category.
I have two single Christian siblings who don't date & no one's showing up at their door
When it comes to dating, getting out and meeting people is the norm, and we certainly can't expect that God will choose someone for us and send them along without us having to bother.
But he could do.