[Mogger]

I suspect that the admonition to pray more is because we are too prone to act without being spiritually prepared.

Or praying, praying, praying, and being thoroughly spiritually prepared, but never doing anything.

God is up there looking down on such people, wondering if they are ever going to get off their butts so he can help them.

It is as if David prayed, "God, would you pick up a rock and chuck it at that giant for me".

[metmom]

Well, there have been times when God did it all for them and told the Israelites to just stand and watch their deliverance, too.