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May 4th, 2012
 God's Conviction makes you a winner  God's Conviction makes you a winner To be in relationship with God has been the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my life. Reason being, with God every single day you experience you are growing – you are better, wiser from what you were yesterday and have worn away those fruitless old attitudes. God is amazing. He never condemns you because He brings correction which is gentle.
In March I experienced something of this kind for what I had been trying to deal with since last one year but was not able to understand. What happened was when my youngest daughter went to grade two; I have always wanted her to excel in her studies and extracurricular activities. I started putting in more effort rather than praying more. As a result I started having greater expectations from her by the day and would feel frustrated when she would not perform as per my expectations. Not only that, I started to pour my frustration on the school and their way of teaching which ultimately led to criticizing the school system, teachers, their way for teaching, etc. And by the way this was the school that God had chosen for my daughter two years back while she was going to her first grade when we were looking for a good school. Then I consistently started praying to God to make her shine bright during her achievement day. I would consistently compare my daughter to her other friends especially one of them who was outstanding in Mathematics and my daughter was not as good. The only motive behind all this was – I am an obedient child of God, God’s favour should be on my daughter and let the whole world know it!
Every time I would go for the PTM-Parent Teacher Meeting and ask about my daughter’s performance or meet her class teacher, she would always tell me one thing – your daughter is an all rounder, she is doing great and she is my best student because of her being an all rounder. But no! I was not taking it, I knew that my daughter was not doing upto (my) mark of expectation so now I knew that her teacher was either trying to please me (but there was no reason for it) or she was not a good teacher because she was not able to assess my daughter’s performance!
All this carried on till the day they finally had their Annual day and I kept praying to God do some miracle and let her excel in front of the world so He stands glorified. As I sat there, names and photographs of achievers of students who had excelled beyond school were displayed and I saw the photograph of my daughter’s friend who I knew was very good at maths. She was younger than my daughter and had gone to the national level of winning the Maths Olympiad. But what struck me instantly at that moment was that her mother never criticized her daughter, the school or the teachers. Oh my God! That was the moment and realization dawned on me. Just because for past one year all I had done was to criticize the school and its functioning, neither was I able to receive the positive performance of my daughter and because of consistent pressure on my young daughter I was not able to let her perform 100 %. I prayed and repented. I prayed and asked for God’s mercy to forgive me and instantly asked God to give me a spirit of praise, a spirit of encouragement and a spirit of patience. And to this day I pray this prayer daily for myself.
That moment changed me completely; it was like darkness was lifted with the light of God’s truth. God made me understand that when you criticize you make your spirit toxic. That toxic spirit does not let you enjoy your life or receive God’s best to you. But God is merciful, His surprise was yet to come, my daughter was awarded outstanding performance in academics and a certificate for bringing the most nutritious tiffin (which was indirectly a reward for me) and that was amazing. Thank God, God is merciful; thank God that His correction brings conviction and not condemnation-Shalini Mehta
Tags: condemnation, conviction, criticize, daughter, encouragement, God, humble, praise, relationship, school, spirit
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April 13th, 2012
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With God you are a calm and happy spirit.
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With God you are a happy and calm spirit.
Recently in our daily SMS service I sent a message which said that-‘Two things frustrate anyone, handling of people and situations. But when you seek God’s wisdom earnestly, you learn to handle them with ease.’
Why is it so important to be connected to God all the time? We negate the importance of God in our life but being a person of faith in everyday of my life and spreading that faith among the people I associate on a daily basis I’ve always put importance to having a relationship with God. Even though each one of us has been made differently we all at some point get frustrated about dealing with people and situations and you would notice the above statement to be absolutely true.
I recently had an experience recently where I was in spat with someone, obviously after any spat no one would be normal. So immediately as always my first line of action was to go to God and have a meeting with Him as He is a witness to everything. I prayed and had many questions for Him. Through that experience God taught me many things and through realizations I felt I had reached a new level all together. I was at peace and I could feel God’s calm in my spirit and it took me two hours at the most. Now talking of the other person, that person has still not realized their relationship with God. That person remained so much agitated they lost their night’s sleep over it, and then they were madder the next day. And then they were mad at many other people.
So what I want to say through this is when you build relationship and remain connected to Him you know, what and how to deal with not only the situation, the people but also most importantly your own self. In any situation it is your own emotions that are the hardest to deal with because it is our emotions that are badly hurt so through God the first thing you learn is to keep hold of your emotions. Second, you learn through realization about why that experience happened to you especially a negative experience. You get a very clear outlook about what was your mistake and where you need to change. Also what are the short comings in the other person and how you need to deal with them-Shalini Mehta
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February 9th, 2012
How do you deal with difficult or uncalled situations in your life? How do you handle people whom you trusted all along and thought that they had moved on with the differences you had, but one fine day God shows you that you moved on but they stuck themselves there and are looking for every opportunity to pull you down?
These things can get messy if you let them. Recently I went through one such situation and it was not the first time but it was a recurrent of events and I had been ignoring the behaviour of some people close to me thinking that I need to change my perspective, my way of dealing. I was thinking it one way but God was thinking differently. He was putting me in these situations for me to understand a very important aspect which would lead me to a breakthrough in my relationships with everyone.
That aspect was to first to detach myself completely from the person’s behaviour and secondly to understand that just like God gives people as per their receiving capability same way I was to give people (respect, worth, love, importance) as per their receiving capability. The mistake I was making was that I was giving more than what the person was actually prepared to receive. It was not that person’s fault but mine. This God revealed to me when I persistently prayed to God that inspite of my genuinely wanting to love people, their response would generally remain negative. I wouldn’t know why I faced rejection consistently. God made me understand that the best way to deal with situations and people is to deal the way He does and His ways are not man’s ways. And to understand His ways you’ve to spend time with Him and involve Him in every area of your life like a mentor-Shalini Mehta
Tags: God, people, Relationships
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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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