Can prayer be an easy cop out when action is needed?

This reminds me of the campaign against Facebook posts along the lines of "share this if you care about... like = prayer " etc.

Same cousin does that on FB too. He posts a picture of men in a jungle and it says, "98% of people who read this won't pass it along to help Vietnam vets."

I told him, "That's because 98% of us can tell the difference between Vietnam vets and Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) in a movie. Besides, how does this help them and do they need help?"

Then he posted one with the same plea, but this time a bunch of men were around a prehistoric anaconda (impossibly large snake even for that species - and they do get huge) saving an African village through the Peace Corp from this anaconda eating entire herds.

I had to tell him that anacondas live in South America, not Africa. (He should know this. My brother, the reptile guy, lives near him and so taught him all-things-snakes just like he taught the rest of us. lol)

He's always promoting one cause or another, but he seems to be praying a lot for stuff that isn't even happening.

I wonder how St George and the dragon would have played out if Facebook had been available.

Only in the UK. I know there was "St. George and the dragon," but never learned the story.

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about a young homeless woman in NYC who eventually turned her life to God, and was at our church preaching one day. She said Christians would give her tracts, say they were going to ray for her, sometimes even did right then and there. Sometimes they gave her some money.
She said it was obvious just by anyone looking at here she was in bad shape, and that finally she began to tell the them don't bother praying for me, and would throw the tracts back at them, in their faces sometimes.
She would say why in the world would I want to hear about God when I am starving? Give me a meal first, and then I can concentrate a little more about hearing about God.
Finally one of them took her to his v=church, she stayed there for a while, helped clean, attended services, in exchange for meals and a roof, and got saved.