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July 20th, 2011
So many times I’ve noticed that God wants to help a particular person but because of their attitude they deride themselves from being blessed. Out of many experiences there is a very recent one when God used me to bless someone, but because of their attitude they were not able to receive what God had planned for them.
Our Foundation supports a PID patient, so we decided to support more of such patients as the mode of treatment is expensive, and even a rich person can get bogged down by the cost of treatment. There was one such child patient. So I called up and informed his parents that our foundation was interested in partial funding of their son’s medication. Though I had come to know that the father of the child had an attitude of hoarding medicine packs, I decided to give it a shot. There were some pre-requisites to be completed before we could start helping this child so I asked the father to send his child’s medical papers before we could start the medical donation. I never received the papers but in between the father asked me for an emergency help for which he lied to me. Since I thought it was the question of a child’s life I somehow managed to provide him medicine at his doorstep. Later I came to know that he had not only wrongly quoted the doctors who were treating his child but also never let me know how his son was keeping. I was shocked and decided to discontinue support from next time.
The next time when the medication was due, patient’s father called me up for the medicine. That is when I confronted him. What I didn’t understand that in spite of my voluntarily helping his child, he lied to me. But this cost him our support. All it could have taken for him was to speak straight and be apologetic about his doing.
So the lesson for us is – if we have gone through some sour situation, rather than blaming someone else for it, it’s time we check on our own attitude and make on purpose effort to change it, for it can become a blockage to receive our own good-Shalini Mehta
Tags: attitude, foundation, God, patient, PID, stumbling block
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February 24th, 2011
 Calendar  Calendar
Foundation has come out with this Table calendar. The calendar is not year specific so you can keep using it for years to come. It has 365 pages of the Word of God printed on each page. The Word are the revelations/understanding that came to the founders as a result of their experience or while studying the Word of God.
The calendar is priced at Rs. 100+postage and all proceeds from the calendar will be used for charity purposes.
Tags: Calendar, God's Child Foundation, Word for today, Word of God
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December 10th, 2010
Recently, under the daily SMS service that we send to so many of our Foundation partners, I sent this SMS few days back -Usually we try to negate the Truth in our life. But God brings it back in stronger ways time and again for us to accept and move forward. The daily SMS that we send is either a revelation or a realization through experience. This particular one was the realization through experience.
When I separated from my ex-husband, I came to know that he had started living-in with the woman he had an affair with and then later married her. I also came to know that they had maligned me in their community to justify their relationship, but I remained silent and every time I came to know of this I would give it to God and move past it. I remained silent because I knew what character my ex-husband had. Both of them even maligned the hearts of my daughters towards me. But God, who is the knower and judge of everybody’s heart and actions, was always watching.
Recently, I came to know that my ex-husband was undergoing court martial for trying to outrage the modesty of a young brother officer’s wife. Not only this, it also came to be known that he was sharing a ‘keep’ with one of his businessmen friends. But his wife is putting up a strong front by denying all this and blaming the lady whose modesty was outraged instead. I wondered why she was not accepting the reality in front of her eyes. Then God showed me that because she herself was party to the past lies so to cover up those lies she was putting up a strong front, to prove to the same community that she had made the right choice.
So what did I learn from this? We try to negate the Truth in our life about our actions and keep shielding our lies with millions of other lies. But God’s only motive for us is to make us grow and progress every step towards Him. He warns us to abstain from things that do not please Him. But by then it becomes a whirlpool and keeps pulling us deeper and deeper. But the good news is that at any point of time in our life, all that it takes is to accept the wrong as wrong and immediately submit to God every action of ours. Repent from your heart in front of God and God will change the course of your destiny. The Bible says there is no pit so deep for God to pull you out of it. But you have to accept that yes, you did a mistake and you repent. If you don’t, you’d be in greater trouble and in a much nastier situation.
So I encourage all you precious children of Almighty that if there is anything God is nudging you about, listen to Him because He means serious business. I pray for you and your family to grow under the authority and care of God – Shalini Mehta
Tags: court martial, Face the Truth, God, lies, marriage, repent, repent for mistake, test of life, Truth
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October 31st, 2010
Almost every evening nowadays, I take my daughter Aanya to the near-by park and make her run with me. To keep her motivated for the running exercise, I purposefully run slow so that she can always “win” and “come first”. A few days ago, something very interesting happened. After a few rounds of her winning the race, I told her that I never came first. Hearing this she said to me, ‘Papa, since you want to come first, so I’ll run slow.’ And indeed she did that! I came and told Shalini about this. On hearing this, Shalini laughed and laughed. At that very time it inspired me to think that we all are like so. In every situation, we want to come first – rather than slow down to wait for God, our Father, to come first. When we cannot see God working behind the scenes for us, we think either He is too slow or we do not know what He might be doing. So we start making our own permutations and fasten ahead thinking we can do a better job than God.
Well, God is the Lord, the Almighty. Through Him everything in this world comes forth and goes back. How can we underestimate His capability to run slower than us? As I write, I am remembering the lines of a worship song of Don Moen that say– ‘God, forgive me for I’ve made you small in my eyes.’ When we don’t trust God, do not wait upon Him, do not trust Him and rather doubt Him, we actually make Him small in our eyes and that is when we start to mess up our lives. It is difficult, I agree, to trust God and be patient, but that is exactly what we ought to do and practice and believe that He is working behind the scenes for us to make us win. For this the easiest way to is to slow down and say – ‘God, I give this situation to you. Make me do what you want me to do about this. Take it from me.’ Simple! That’s how you can practice running slow to wait on God and win the race of life! God Bless – Vinay Mehta
Tags: race of life, waiting, winning with God
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September 21st, 2010
A few days ago on a Sunday morning, I was cleaning my little garden of the weeds. I noticed something interesting about the behaviour and presence of weeds in the garden. In that half an hour I was working there God gave me revelations of a life-time. Sharing these simple truths about our self, I believe, shall surely help us strengthen our relationship with God daily.
I had a shovel in my hand to help pull out the weeds. All kinds of weeds were present – small and big. I observed that
- the number and growth of weeds near the plant where it gets its daily water was much more than any where else – near the gift that the plant receives to survive and thrive. In life, have you ever noticed that “weeds” of arrogance or “I know all” attitude grow easily around your talent or area in which you are gifted. Very often we see the weed of procrastination present among the gifted people. I was also a victim of this weed, and it took me quite some time to weed it out of my life.
- the weeds which were smaller had almost straight single main root whereas the bigger weeds had root system well-developed. It was much easier to take the smaller ones out, even by hand. It has got a deep meaning. The younger the age of a bad habit, lesser time and effort does it take to root it out of your character. But once you let it develop for some time, it becomes harder and needs great pains to take it out.
- Some weeds were so big that as I used shovel to dig them out, it started hurting the roots of the plant around which these weeds were present. Similarly in life, longer age of bad choices would hurt your talent or natural gifts in such a way that they get intertwined with your gifts and talents and reduce your potential to grow. And harder it gets to weed them out. Even if you decide to take them out, it would take much time, and long process of pain.
I believe until we pray to God to make us vigilant enough to keep observing ourselves daily to notice little weeds, it is quite natural to grow weeds all around our character, and unknowingly we become the victims of our bad choices or bad thoughts or bad habits. Take care. God bless you!-Vinay Mehta
Tags: character, choices, garden, God, thoughts, weeds
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September 16th, 2010
Yesterday (15th of September 2010) was one of the most amazing days of my life because I saw God’s miraculous powers work in front of my eyes. I thought I would share this with everyone. My motive behind this is to magnify how good God is and also to make people aware about their precious health.
I was detected with Hypothyroidism in June 2008. It was a terrible time because at the same time because of hormonal imbalance I got high blood pressure. I was put on medication both for Thyroid and high blood pressure simultaneously. And everywhere I went people told me that I would have to be on these medications for lifetime. Every time I heard this negative sentence, I would shut my ears mentally and affirm to myself that very soon I would be off these medicines and be healthy again. I prayed to God fervently, and would talk to Him that He is my ultimate doctor because He created this body; He would help me to find a solution to this problem. I was determined since I knew that “for God all things are possible and only He will show me the right way.”
One fine day after one and a half months, God sent a book through an acquaintance. It was the book on Acupressure and she said that this could help me. For few days the book kept lying around but then God again prompted me that this is the solution that He had sent for me. It was a very simply explained book and I started doing Acupressure for my Thyroid problem. Within fifteen days my doctor had to get the potency of my medicine down. Ultimately next year by May 2009 I was taken off medication for Thyroid. In the mean time my blood pressure (BP) medicine continued. But I was having many side effects due to the medicine, which neither I could figure out nor strangely, my doctor mentioned to me its side effects. The side effects of the medicine Cardioprill (salt Ramipril) gave me fluid retention, sleepless nights due to constant dry cough at nights and a start of arthritis.
All this while I would think that my over-weight was the creator of all these problems for me. But it was other way round. I could not reduce my weight because of this BP medicine. One fine day after my arthritis was detected; I got very impatient because I was almost becoming immobile as my movement got extremely restricted. I fervently prayed to God to help me. I was once again very determined that I’ve to be fit and healthy. And I took this decision that I would affirm only positive messages to myself irrespective of how I might feel. So every day when I got up from sleep and having spent time with God I started telling myself in the mirror that ‘I have a slim, slender and healthy body.’ I asked God to release all those negative things that I had attracted in my mind to have given me this condition and kept constantly praying. I also started with my acupressure treatment for High BP and finally yesterday when I visited my doctor, my doctor stopped all my treatment. Today my body is getting free of all toxins. I am still continuing with the Acupressure treatment and exercises for my arthritis and BP along with losing weight. My physiotherapist recommended me some Yoga exercises as my arthritis is at a very early stage and she says that very soon I should be fine. Now I am leading a perfectly normal life free of all medication and disease.
All I want to tell you through this personal example is that your body is the temple of God it is very precious so keep it free of toxins and poisons. The medicines that you are taking are actually killing you slowly instead of curing you due to huge side effects. You yourself are your friend so treat your body with care. All this while God has been a leader to me and guiding me as to what is best for my body. That is why it is so important to be consistently in touch with God for everything in your life. And yesterday after my breakthrough I was so grateful to God that He is the leader of my life. Take care because you are precious to God-Shalini Mehta
Tags: BP, doctor, God, high blood pressure, medication, Ramipril, thyroid
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August 26th, 2010
Do you know that Obedience is the number one thing which impresses God. When we remain obedient to the Word of God and what God asks us to do we remain in the circle of His blessings; but the moment we choose to do our will and go beyond the circle of obedience we face adversities and sometimes severe adversities. There is a very prominent example that has been explained to us through Ramayan. When Laxman the younger brother of Sri Ram had drawn a circle of safety for Sita, she was safe till the time she was within it but the moment she chose to walk out of it out of fear, Ravana in disguise of a Sadhu kidnapped her and she got into severe adversity. Same way in Bible it says “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all His commands…you will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country” (Deuteronomy 28:1-3, NIV) Now this does not mean that God is a dictator and if we do not abide by what He asks us to do He will curse us. God never curses, God only knows how to love His children.
One might wonder then how come our life becomes a curse. It’s like this when God wants us to do something it is for our good because He wants our life to grow in a certain way, the way He knows is best for us. Sri Ramakrishna Parmahansa explains this with a beautiful example, he says, when a father holds the hand of the child to cross a rivulet the child never goes astray but when the child holds the fathers hand it is possible that some distraction might make the child leave the fathers hand and the child will go astray.
Now I want to share with you an example that I experienced yesterday which would explain my point further. Yesterday after few months I met a friend who had promised to help our Foundation with the donation that we were managing to sponsor for the PID (Primary Immune Deficiency) child patient. At that time every commitment counted and I was very sure she would help our Foundation with much more than what she had promised. But suddenly she stopped taking my calls and neither did she convey that she was not interested in being a partner or donor any more. I really didn’t know what had happened all of a sudden. Yesterday I met her after more than four months and saw that there were hardly any hair left on her head and she looked tired and fagged out. When I inquired she told me that probably I had cursed her for not giving the donation and her life has been like as if she was on a roller coaster ride. On further inquiring she told me that she had been in a spin as her mother suddenly took ill and she had to take her out of the country for treatment and her father met with an accident at the same time. And since she is running her business also, her life has been like one foot here and the other somewhere else. To top it all she burnt all her hair while using hot iron at home. And she thought because she behaved with me in that manner her life had been cursed.
What had actually happened was that she had cursed her own life. When we are not obedient to God and do our will we lose our peace and life seems to be like a roller coaster and you crave for peace. This is happening with millions of people everywhere. Some are making wrong adjustments in accounts just because their customers want it but they are not at peace with it. Some are not treating their colleague’s right or someone in the family right so they are not at peace. But what we need to understand is that we are not being obedient to God by not doing things right. So if you think that there is something in your life for which you are not being obedient to God do not reason out with Him why in your opinion you are right, just obey you’ll make your life meaningful, peaceful and blessed. Be blessed-Shalini Mehta.
Tags: blessed, curse, God, obedience
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July 27th, 2010
I recently visited an acquaintance’s home which was being renovated; they had called me to suggest them on using colour on their walls. After we had gone around the whole house and suggesting them various colours for each room we sat down for a cup of tea. During the conversation the lady of the house asked me if I had seen the room especially made for her and her family to worship God. I was a little confused because I had not seen any such room. She told me to have a look at it under the staircase on my way out. It took me some time to understand, but I confirmed with her the place where she told me. I was taken aback and I simply asked her a question that if her son built a house and left a room with a ventilator instead of a window and asked her and her husband to stay there and lavishly used the other part of his property to live comfortably with his wife and children, would she like it? She answered no, and I said that is how God feels in your this room.
Some of us are callous enough and use God only when we are in dire situation, some of us use God when it is convenient to us. But I encourage you to make God the centre of your life and revolve your life around Him rather than fitting Him into your life. He should be the number one in your finances, decisions, time, relationships and in your home. If you wish to have a place of worship in your home, give Him the best place not a leftover not after every member of the family have selected their rooms.
When you keep your eyes on God, God also keeps His eyes on you. He looks for His children who need Him and want Him. In Bhagvad Gita 6:30 the Lord says- He who see Me everywhere and sees all in Me, he never becomes lost to Me, nor do I become lost to him.
So I encourage you today that God is the vital ingredient of your life, do not use Him as a convenience. He loves you and wants to do some amazing things ‘in’ you and ‘through’ you, give Him His rightful place-God loves you-Shalini Mehta
Tags: God, Life, vital
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July 26th, 2010
Yesterday morning while coming back from the market along with my daughter Aanya, I saw a good built German Shepherd dog behaving very abnormally. The dog seemed lost and had no sense of what it was doing or where it was going. Sometimes it would just smell the grass, sometimes it would look around with wandering eyes. I could immediately recognize that it had lost its way. It seemed so different in its behaviour which was contrary to a German Shepherd. Immediately I got a revelation in my heart from God, as He spoke: “if you lose Me in this world, this is what becomes of you.” Just as the dog lost its owner, a person in the world loses the sense of ownership that God has on each one of us.
What makes you lost in this world – your ego, your job, your status, your money, your intellect, your talent, your busy-ness, your pity-party, your circumstances? Most of us are, in one way or the other, lost in this world because of our own making, forgetting how much God loves us, cares for us and is waiting to talk to us. Later in our lives, we regret about what we were doing.
One of my ex-colleagues was busy being the best worker. He was thus spending no time with family, parents or friends. One day he got involved in a terrible accident and was immobile for two months. Another example is of an aged lady who was fixed on the idea that God does not listen to her prayers, while she dealt with a grown-up son who was an alcoholic. This was till she got desperate in her prayers for her son to change and she had to send her son to the de-addiction centre.
All such people are actually lost one way or the other, unaware of the change God wants to bring in them. Instead of seeing God’s hand in putting them in specific circumstances, they blame the whole world and lose sight of God’s purpose behind these. When that lady or the colleague of mine realised what God wanted from them, they felt stable, confident and at peace.
In case you are feeling lost, start spending time with the Ultimate One starting today. He shall guide you, take care of you, watch your steps, order your direction in such a minute details that you shall never feel lost! That’s when you get most secure in your mind and take on this world like a winner! – God bless you – Vinay Mehta
Tags: God, lost, prayer, Ultimate
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July 26th, 2010
Last couple of months I’ve been listening to so many people using this term-‘it’s God’s will’- that it actually rung a bell in my ears. I noticed many of us use this term-God’s will- not knowing what it actually means. A job that someone accepted and then got fired after few months was construed to be God’s will. Someone else was desperately seeking to buy a bigger house and then when they got one, they termed it as ‘God’s will’.
I wondered in both the situations – was it really God’s will in the first place or was it our own will and when things didn’t work out as it expected to be or just because our wish got fulfilled, we termed it as God’s will.
What is God’s will? Simply explained God’s will is what God has ordained for us, what He wishes for us and what He knows what is best for us.
How do we know it is God’s will in our life? This happens only when we surrender our actions completely to God. For example, if I like someone and through permutation and combination get into a friendship with her and say it is God’s will – No, that’s not what would be God’s will. That’s my will that got through by my own permutations etc. But if instead I do this: when I want friends I need to ask God to send His people into my life and keep having a positive attitude towards every person I meet; instead of judging or criticising anyone, when I expectantly wait for God’s timing – that is God’s will. When it is God’s will, we have complete peace about it. Even if sometimes doubt crops in, you just need to tell God – “God, I am going ahead in faith believing it’s Your will. If it’s not, then just stop me.” And you will find that if God stops you, you will never feel disappointed or frustrated.
When we lust for something and want it at any cost, we tend to not see what God has actually reserved for us. And God has always reserved the best for us. Let us leave our escapist attitude by doing everything by our will and then putting the onus on God. Rather we should take responsibility for our own actions and wait for God to move in our life. This way we’ll get the best what God has reserved for each one of us. And let God be in the driver’s seat of our life rather than we driving it our own self- Love, Shalini Mehta
Tags: Faith, God, Life, will
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