I believe that "Lord come and help us, the one you love is sick" is a prototype of what prayer is. When we present our needs to the Lord, we confidently approach the Throne of Grace. The Word of God itself invites us to draw close to the Lord. It is a throne of grace, it is a throne of goodness and mercy, it is an opening throne for us. We do not have to come in fear that the Lord is going to reject us or that we are going to be bothering us in any way but rather that the Lord wants us to let him know our needs.
We are in the middle of this study concerning John chapter 11, death and resurrection of Lazarus. In
the last program we were talking about the fact that Marta and María at the time of their crisis when their brother is terribly ill can appeal to the relationship that they already have with Jesus Christ, which John himself clarifies, that they were friends of Jesus, Mary was the one who had poured the perfume and had wiped the Lord with her hair, etc. not?.