Chasidut על קידושין 60:7

Exodus 15,2. “The Lord is my strength ‎and might; He has become my deliverance.” ‎Moses describes the process as being that the ‎Children of Israel by dint of their prayers “awakened” ‎the attribute of Mercy including all the largesse that ‎G’d is willing and capable of putting at His creatures’ ‎disposal. We must never lose sight of the fact that even ‎when we carry out G’d’s will and desires, we would ‎never be able to do even this unless we enjoyed a ‎measure of Divine assistance. This is what the Talmud ‎in Kiddushin 30 taught us when it states that ‎without the ongoing assistance by G’d we could never ‎stand up successfully against the evil urge. If this is so, ‎it follows that even our good deeds are the product of ‎Divine assistance, so how can our good deeds and ‎prayers “awaken” the attribute of Mercy?‎
My revered and saintly teacher Rabbi Dov Baer, has ‎provided us with one of his “pearls” of Torah insights ‎by means of a parable. Let us say that a father is trying ‎to teach his son a difficult lesson. He keeps trying but ‎the son remains unresponsive, does not understand ‎what is expected of him. What does the father do? He ‎provides his son with some clue to the solution of the ‎problem he had posed. Seeing that his father is actively ‎helping him, the son is encouraged and redoubles his ‎efforts to find the missing parts of the puzzle with ‎which this father had confronted him. G’d, our Father ‎in heaven, deals similarly with us. Realising that unless ‎He helps us we might, G’d forbid, become the victims ‎of the evil urge, He furnishes us with clues.