is it true - God helps those who help themselves?

There's a saying called.... 'God helps those who help themselves!'.... Really?
I mean if we could help our own selves, why would we need God then? God would be jobless!
Yeahh..I know I know... many of you have your points to prove me wrong and you would say that's silly of me differing to the saying. Because if we won't study for exams and depend on God, will He help us pass the exams? And a lot many examples as such....
God is not stupid. And he has made you in His likeness. Which means He's not made us stupid either.... He has beautifully created us to use the organs He has blessed us with. He has not created us to fold our hands and sit with exam paper in front of us, knowing we'll pass. That's not the whole point.... God has already helped you giving you the brains to study and hands to write.... And trust God while studying and writing the exam that He will help you understand the content and be knowledgeable! And if you fail, it means you need more understanding of the topic and be thorough with it!
If God wanted us to help us first, then how would Noah had taken the first step when it started raining and He was in the ship - Coz when everything got destroyed, then why not his ship?
What first step of helping himself could Daniel have taken when he was inside the lions' den?
What first step of helping themselves could Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego have taken when they were thrown into the kiln with fire?
What first step could Joseph have taken when he was thrown in a deep pit by his brothers?
So many examples in The Bible - the word of God.
God was the same yesterday, is today and will be always... In our lives too, He has done so many miracles that we could have never thought of or took the first step of helping ourselves, but they did happen to us.
God is a loving God. All He wants is to put our trust in Him, be thankful for His gifts and blessings and live a life according to His will.
Well.... the main point I want to state today is.... that God is the God of ages.... We are just mere human beings. We cannot even add a single second to our lives ourselves and then still we boast of ourselves! What a shame! If we were capable enough of helping ourselves, we would all have been Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg of this age... Coz this is what we all run for... Money and Fame! - which lasts for how long?? Do I hear eternity?? NO.... Not at all! They last only till our graves and get burried inside with our dead bodies...
Then what are we craving for? To live a life of money and fame on the earth and die....OR to live a happy and a purposeful life and a promise to live through eternity?
We all have been blinded by the worldy filth that we don't realize that it's not what we are here for.
In simple words, there is a God and there is evil. God gives you eternal life. Evil gives you eternal death. You can either live or die...and mind you, I'm not talking about worldly life or death... But a life forever and dying forever.
You know what, though we many times joke around this thing, but Heaven is for real. Happy to hear that? That's the greatest truth. Heaven is God's throne and we are God's children.
Now listen to this.... Hell is for real too. And you know what happens in Hell? You die every second and you still not die and this continues not just for 1 day, 1 month, 1 year or not even 100 years....but FOREVER! Just imagine, if your finger is put to burn on a candle's flame and you are in unbearable pain. And the flame doesn't go off for 1 whole day and you have to bear it. Would you be able to? Ask yourself this question and be honest to atleast yourselves!
Now imagine, if your whole body(or I should rather say soul) is in the midst of fire, probably a million times hotter than the sun and you don't die but feel all the pain it gives you and you plead for death but still you never die.... Do you think you can bear it? Trust me, this is not even a glimpse of what hell is all about.
On the contrary, Heaven is the most satisfying place of anywhere you might have been till now. If Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie want to build a house in the most beautiful place on the earth, they would chose Switzerland or may be Canada or any other most beautiful place in the world. And if you were honoured to own that house for free and be satisfied with all the good things that are there, would you leave any chance of not grabbing it?
I personally would never lose this golden opportunity!!
God...who is the maker of heaven and earth.... Heaven is where He wants us to live forever.... with HIM! It's beyond what I can even imagine! One who owns the whole universe calls me His child.... Am I worth it? What did I do to help myself attain it? ....Nothing... I cannot do anything by myself.
Turn to Jesus, my friends.... He is the ONLY way to heaven. Without Him, there is nothing. If we don't believe Him, we are on our way to hell....
The only thing you can help yourselves with is, believe in Jesus. Believe that He is with you..always... even through eternity!