Right. I cannot remember his name either.
I am all for praying, but I keep in mind that God helps those who help themselves...
If you plant yourself in front of a charging Rhino with the expectation that prayer alone is going to save you...it might...but you aren't helping your cause any.
Red Skelton told this joke, and it kinda fits.
A gentleman was rocking on his front porch in a very hard driving rain, that looked like it wasn't going to stop any time soon. The water was up to the height of his porch.
A police car drives up, and through the speaker says to the man:
"The rain is going to crest the river upstream 15-20 feet over it's banks, and we are here to evacuate you!!"
The man replies:"No thanks, the Lord will provide !"
The police leave. The water then gets so high, that the man has to seek shelter in the second story of his house.
A police boat approaches the man, who is looking out of his second story window, and with a bullhorn, shouts to him:
"Get in the boat and come to safety, the water is going to drown you !!"
The man refuses, as he replies: "The Lord will provide!"
The boat leaves, and within mere minutes, the water has reached the level of his roof, leaving the man to climb to the very peak of it, with him still waist deep in the rising water as a rescue helicopter shows up overhead.
The crew of the chopper shout to the man: "Put on the harness in front of you, and we will take you to safety !!
The man says "The Lord will provide!", and again refuses the help, and the helicopter flies off to rescue others.
The man finally drowns.
His next stop finds him in front of Jesus at the pearly gates.
The man cries: "Lord, I was taught all my life that you would provide my needs for me on earth. Why didn't you help me? Why did you let me drown??"
Jesus replies; " I did help you !! I sent you a police car, a boat, and a helicopter !!"