Trust in the Lord. he can Lift you to Top of the World
“He who trusts in the Lord will be prospered – Pro 28:25 (NIV)”
Twenty-nine year old Sangeeta Jain was born and raised in the United States of America. Born into a Jain family, Sangeeta did not know the Lord until 1990, when her entire family accepted Jesus Christ. Prior to the family’s conversion, on June 14, 1986, Sangeeta and her family met with a devastating car accident that left Sangeeta confined to a wheelchair. At the age of ten, Sangeeta had to relearn how to live her life, from putting on her socks, to moving about using a wheelchair. At the same time, she learned how to set goals and strive to achieve them. She learned not to give up. She learned how to trust in God. Her faith and trust was strengthened multifold after reading the Word of God in Pro 29:25, “Whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe” and in Psalm 29 :25, “Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him”. Just months after the accident, Sangeeta began the sixth grade. Determined not to let her disability hinder her, she became Student Body President, won various awards, and took part in the school play, all the while remaining at the top of her class. Since then, she has continued to concentrate on what she can do rather than on what she can’t do, trusting that God will make all things possible.
Sangeeta graduated from a top engineering college in the USA with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. She also went on to get a Jury’s doctorate degree in Law. Out of college she worked as an advisor to two High Court Judges. She is currently working as an associate in the Premier Law firm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Among her many accomplishments and the many blessings of God in her life who promised “With everlasting kindness, I will have mercy on you (Is 54:8), the Lord blessed Sangeeta to win the title of Miss Teen of
S. THAYAPPAN 83 Washington in 1993, becoming the first person in the world in a wheel chair to win a pageant against other girls who were normal. She was also third runner up in the Miss Teen of America Pageant (much like the Miss India competition, but for teenagers).
Over the years Sangeeta had the privilege of sharing her testimony and about the many blessings of God in her life with school children, politicians, churches, hospitals, youth groups and community groups both in India and the United States. At these meetings God has powerfully moved, saving the lost, healing the sick, delivering the oppressed and filling His people with the baptism and power of the Holy Spirit. Through all of her experiences Sangeeta has not only learned about God, America, Engineering and the Law, but she has learned many lessons for life as well, the most important of which was learning to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in the Lord, you can win the world! Like the Psalmist exalted the Lord, “I will deliver you and you shall glorify Me (Ps 50:15)”, Sangeetha is now glorifying the Lord.