What a tragedy! Satan will use anything to get decent folks away from God and into
HELL FOREVER.
God has explained, and at a guaranteed 100% success rate, how to address ill health. There are several references and I'll just post two here:
1st PERSON
JEREMIAH 17 kjv
14-15 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
17-18 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
Did that baby have insufficient faith?
Did it even pray at all?
Was there some satanic influence operating to get this little one?
What great future was intended for this child?
We know Christian parents would appreciate that their child was putrid and vile in God's eyes deserving only of torture and obnoxious in His sight because The Bible explains this repeatedly and in great detail.
2nd & 3rd PERSONS
I PETER 2 kjv
15-16 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
23-24 [Christ] when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Notice the accomplished fact.
Ye.
Were.
Healed. Not
might be healed some time in the future and certainly not
healed at a 2% level of probability except babies. Christ's healing ministry is a finished work. Jesus has now left the world. Christians claim His deliverance but not all Christians have sufficient faith.
In this case the faith was insufficient. Was it the wife? Maybe she was not frightened of her husband. Or frightened but only a bit maybe she was into some debauchery resulting from not relating to her owner as he relates to God. I don't know. But what I do know is that an opportunity for deliverance was extinguished, an opportunity for The Holy Spirit to pour out healing, that the reason was faithlessness and guess who pounced. Satan!