Excerpt from Wendy M. Reynolds’ “First Mentality then Reality”


What’s hindering you from doing something you know you need to do? Is something stopping you from obtaining a goal? Who is in your way of progress? What…Who…?

…Your biggest enemy is usually not the things or the people you face but the face you see in the mirror and the mentality it possesses. We can be our biggest enemy- the way we think about ourselves- the way we view things and situations. Les Brown says, “The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dream is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes and thinking your negative thoughts.”

…When you get a firm grasp on who you really are and what is really available to you watch out! Too often our anger is kindled against people—maybe a boss or perhaps even a race of people because we think they are standing in the way of us getting something or they are withholding something that we are entitled to. “Oh, they won’t give me the promotion because they just don’t want me to have it” or sometimes we hear “they’re just trying to hold us back—keep us down!”

God has created us with everything we need to not only survive but also succeed. Does that mean those social injustices don’t exist? No. They do exist but they don’t stop us from pursuing what we are after. We don’t allow the difficulty of a situation or the negativity of other people to hold us in bondage. We overcome by connecting with God. We overcome by coming up—elevating our minds by changing our thinking, raising our standards and by refusing to compromise our beliefs! When we connect with God and work on improving ourselves we discover that people really have no control over our destiny. They don’t decide if we fail or succeed. When we develop the mindset God intends for us to have and stay focused—not swaying from left to right we will obtain what we are after. We will live the life we were meant to live. We will triumph! We will be in a position to benefit others as well.

…Get your hopes up. Anticipate the extraordinary. Because we serve a great God we are a great people. When greatness comes together with greatness, the atmosphere should be charged with such expectancy that words can not describe it…!


Phil 2:5-11

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.