He heals people all the time on his television show so why not her? Was it because her vegetative state prevented her from watching TV? Jesus raised a guy from the dead so it doesn't seem like the patient needs to be involved much.
Was he unaware of the situation? That seems highly unlikely since he appeared on FOX "News" discussing her condition. In fact he stated that she wasn't really in a vegetative state at the time so maybe someone could have wheeled a TV into her room so that he could have broadcast a healing to her.
This is something he really truly believes in, he says here:
"...Your confession is extremely important, and, indeed, your words do have creative power, if they are energized by the Holy Spirit....God's thoughts will be transmitted by the Holy Spirit to our spirits, and if we speak them forth, things will begin to take shape and change...In my experience, the way I've seen healings take place has been to speak the word, to see creative miracles, to command storms to cease...When you exercise the authority of Jesus' name, and command evil spirits to be gone, they must obey. Taking authority over demons is a scripturally sound activity. It is not some hocus-pocus, mind over matter or some weird magic...Similarly, agreeing with God's Word, and speaking to our circumstances is not a "name it and claim it" game of "let's see what we can get from God." We are not talking about magic, formulas, tricks, or games; we are talking about the power of God having real results in our everyday lives according to clearly annunciated biblical teachings."
It says in the Bible that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is not limited to some timeframe. We see tens of thousands of miracles here on this program, hundreds of thousands of answers to prayer. George Gallop told me some years ago that he had recorded, according to his surveys, at least seven million people in America had experienced healing through prayer. Of course God continues to do things. If you read Isaiah, 'by his stripes we are healed,' but He says He has borne on Himself our sicknesses and our diseases .It is specific to sicknesses and diseases [when the Bible says] 'by his stripes we were healed.' We are freed from our sin by the blood of Jesus on the Cross, by His death and Resurrection. But the wounds on His back and the stripes that were there are for the sicknesses and diseases. Look at Isaiah 52 and 53. See what you think."
Greg Palast gives this eye witness account from when he attended a live broadcast of the 700 Club...
"""After praying for divine assistance for his visions, he announced: 'There is somebody who has cancer of the intestines ... God is healing that right now and you will live! ... Somebody named Michael has a deep chest cough ... God is healing you right now!'
It is not clear why the Lord needs the intervention of an expensive cable TV operation to communicate to Michael. But more intriguing theological issues are raised by the programme hosts' linking of miracles to donations made to Robertson's organisation.
In a taped segment, a woman's facial scars healed after her sister joined the 700 Club (for a donation of $20 a month). A voice intoned: 'She didn't realise how close to home her contribution would hit.' It ended: 'Carol was so grateful God healed her sister, she increased her pledge.'
""""http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/pat_quotes/palst.htm
Given all that faith he has plus the millions of people around the country raising their arms toward God why couldn't he heal her?
This is really distressing me. I find it hard to believe that God would have ignored him if he asked. Why would the same God who chooses to appear each year in various tomatoes, highway overpasses and cluod formations not take the oppurtunity to heal Ms Schiavo on 24 hour national cable news?