Does God help those who help themselves?

I have never liked this saying, as it implies to me some worldly or fleshly work on our part, or that God needs help...BUT...it came to me today...a new way of seeing it...the Word says that we have armor-that we are in a battle-that we have weapons (and the weapons of our warfare are NOT carnal...worldly, fleshly). We are expected to do more than pray and then sit back & wait...we are expected to engage the enemy! We are expected to lay claim to victories in the name of Jesus! I knew that, but I often fall short when it comes to that engagement. How can we expect God to move on our behalf when we can't get up and move ourselves on our own behalf-spiritually. We have weapons that we are told are mighty to the pulling down of strongholds-we can't sit back and let those strongholds remain if we have the means to move them out of our way. We have the power of the Holy Spirit on our side, but we need to show we mean it when we want to move a mountain. It is our responsibility to know the Word, and more importantly, to USE it!
Today's challenges-what does the Bible say about our weapons? Our enemy? Our armor?
We have real armor and real weapons-and a very real enemy! We need to know what they are all about. How did the disciples wage warfare? How did they pray? How did they live their lives? I believe you will find praise in spite of situations, intense devotion, and the fullness of the Holy Spirit were a huge part of their lives. They didn't just pray "God help me" prayers and go through the motions of being a believer-they engaged the enemy with the tools they were given. We need to be warriors-Christianity requires it! We may have thought it only required obtaining our "heaven ticket" by being born again of the spirit, and though God's love is unconditional...his promises are not...because we have the free will given by a God who loved us that much!