Living a Life on FIRE: The Power of Faith in Business & Beyond

Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, an ordained New Thought Minister and entrepreneur, shares how shifting from a mindset of chasing success to one of divine alignment transformed her journey. Through biblical principles, intuition, and purpose-driven work, she guides others to embrace their calling with confidence. If you’ve ever felt stuck or uncertain about your next steps, her wisdom will inspire you to trust the process and live a life on FIRE—full of faith, impact, resilience, and excellence.

Your journey includes both professional excellence and deep spiritual leadership. How has your faith played a role in shaping your success and guiding your mission to help others live life on FIRE?

My faith journey has always catalyzed my growth professionally and personally. I didn’t realize that at the time, as I thought that my work was a direct reflection of God’s favor and joy in my life. As I have become more mature in my faith, I understand that God has been proud of me, and I have been His joy from inception. Because God only creates in love. Therefore, the moment that She had the idea of me, there was pride in me and joy in me.

This understanding has fueled and shaped my work methodology and the systems that I use to work with people. I come from a place of asking them to look within before jumping into the next great thing. Because at this point in all of our lives, we are not involved in anything messy or superfluous. Everything has a purpose and is in order. But it is not necessarily consistent with our life purpose, our mission, and the vision that God has for our lives. That is where the challenge comes in to live a life on fire. It is embracing and trusting God’s will for our life and letting go of things that we have worked hard for and things that we enjoy, but no longer serve the overarching mission of our lives. Trusting that God will then open things up and “stir up the gifts” so that better and more will come.

Better opportunities, more aligned clients, more resources to touch more people, stronger relationships, and more love for oneself and the community. When we prioritize being in good order with Spirit, that allows us to live a life that is full of peace, joy, and fulfillment.

In today’s fast-paced world, many Christians struggle to balance their faith with career ambitions. What biblical principles do you apply to help believers achieve success while maintaining peace and joy?

The first verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:1 lays out everything you need to know about running your business in a way that is consistent with the love that God has for all of us. It states, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth”.

So in the beginning, there was God. That meant that God the Creator had the presence of mind, consciousness, strength, and resources. With that firm foundation, He went on a mission consistent with Her vision to bring forth all. In other words, God was ready to move. That movement brought forth the heavens, everything above. The metaphor for our life and business would be the overarching strategy and vision. And then God created the earth, and continuing our metaphoric reference to our lives and businesses, that would be the manifestation of our work and effort.

Many times we struggle with wanting worldly success – cash, clothes, and cars – but don’t have a vision of how we are going to use them to add to the Kingdom. While we look great, none of those things do anything to add to our character or knowledge base or expand our network in a way that would help other people to understand the treasure they are to God. Unless or until we are using those things, those tools, in a manner that is consistent with our calling, then we are fighting in the dark.

We are not using our light, our brilliance to amplify our message and get into spaces and places so that other people are blessed by what we’re doing. But before we take those “stages”, we have to make sure that we are in good order.

One of the ways to ensure I stay focused is to share what God has placed in my heart with my warm circle. That includes my family, close friends, and close business associates who are aligned with my purpose. If there is a deviation from the “heavens”, or the overarching strategy of my life, my warm circle knows that they are empowered to come and say something to me. They have the authority to call me to account for my actions.

How does that look? For me, when I get off track, I get ill. The last major time it happened, I developed stage 4 endometriosis which led to a series of horrible surgeries. And it is very important that I take care of myself so that I can be the best version of myself for my family, my businesses, as well as my community. The best version of myself is an amplification of God‘s love to the world. It is how I open myself so that the Holy Spirit may use me and my energies across whatever community I am touching at that time.

You are an ordained New Thought Minister and a highly accomplished business leader. How do you merge spiritual wisdom with practical strategies to help your clients achieve their God-given purpose?

I appreciate you saying so, but every accolade you see, there was a challenge and a journey through inner healing. I embrace that dichotomy because that is how I have been able to merge the practical and spiritual.

The first thing that I realize is that I am my own client first. Anything that I tell someone else to do, I ensure that I am in alignment with that myself. If I am not, then I don’t speak it. The practical part of that is that nobody wants to learn from a fraud or someone who is inauthentic. The spiritual part of that is being a woman of my word, a person walking according to God’s will.

The second thing is that I asked people to factor in grace, and replace hustle and grind culture with that grace.

When we look through the Bible, there is no mention of the hustle and grind with the people that God ordained and blessed abundantly. It doesn’t say they did not work, they absolutely did, but they did not work themselves to the bone. They did not work themselves into illness. They did not work themselves into depression. They worked in joy and they did excellent work. Not perfect work.

Every person who prospered in the Bible is working with God‘s grace in mind and according to his/her calling. They are working for a purpose that is bigger than them. So when we’re thinking about the merger of the spiritual and the practical, this requires us to first work according to our skills, gifts, and talents; and second to work in joy, not just happiness.

Our jobs are never going to make us happy. But we can do them with an attitude of thanksgiving, gratitude, love, and peace. Even when the work is mind-numbing, people annoying, or the place uncomfortable, we can be in joy. I once worked in a place that was so disgusting the employees were cleaning it because the owner refused to hire a janitor! And yet we were able to keep smiles on our faces and songs in our hearts. It didn’t mean the place wasn’t gross, nor that we weren’t angry to be in such a place until we could find better work. It just meant that we were not going to allow the circumstances in the place where we found ourselves to change who we were and are at the core, which is love.

Your book shares a formula for the Ultimate Successful Life. Can you give us a faith-based perspective on how trusting God can transform someone’s journey toward fulfillment?

I think we first have to begin with what trusting God looks like. It is totally and completely putting your intuitive senses first. No matter what your eyes, ears, or any other senses are telling you, if it goes against what your intuition is saying, you must ignore it.

Intuition is God’s voice within you. We have been taught by our society of very well-meaning people to ignore that voice when it does not coincide with practicality or what we would like to believe is good sense. But your intuition is what will guide you when everything else fails. That great job that allows you to run everything and everybody, those lovely clothes that have you looking fabulous, and those investments that you made knowing that the product/service is inconsistent with your core values; it’s not a shock when it falls apart when God whispered to you through your intuition “no”.

As we trust our intuition more, it becomes louder and more insistent m. But the more we suppress it, the softer it gets. This is consistent with what we know of God’s word, which is that we are not forced to do anything. We have free will.

Now that we understand what trust means, we can move forward into understanding fulfillment. Fulfillment is an ongoing process, it continues every day of your life. So at the end of each day, your cup will be full and then the next day we start the process over again. If you think of a production line where orders are fulfilled, you don’t fill one order, then stop if you want to be profitable. For sustainable growth and success, the line must fill multiple orders.

How do we remain consistently fulfilled? We begin with setting the intention for our day three times prayer and meditation. We stretch our bodies to prepare them to perform. We give thanks and express our gratitude for our family, teachers, clients, and emotional intelligence. Now we’re ready to go out into the world to positively influence all we encounter.

Our fulfillment comes from operating and working in our purpose which is our unique way of spreading love and well-being with others. By creating safe, nurturing, and empowering environments, people can see the God within and act accordingly.

What advice would you give to Christian entrepreneurs and professionals who feel stuck or uncertain about their calling, but are ready to step into their divine purpose?

Embrace where you are right now. Being stuck means that you require something more. Whether that something more is education, mentorship, resources and support, encouragement, or all of the above; this place of pause is a divine place for preparation. So look around your environment, look at your credentials, and determine where there needs to be some supplemental work or enhancement.

Once you have addressed any deficiencies, now it is time to move. Pick one thing you can do right now and do it. Whether that is having a conversation with your director about where you want to go next in your career path, talking to a production company about large-scale mass production of your product, or finding new software to help you to replicate your service and train others so that you can grow, pick one thing and do that today. And the next day, pick another thing and do that.

Next, you want to engage with other people who are similarly situated. This may be a mastermind group, business league, church group, or a circle of people who are on the rise and who are ready to make changes in their lives and do the work to sustain their momentum. That last part is key. You have a lot of people who have in their mind that they want to do something, but are not in a place where they can. Whether the limitation is a mental one or an actual one. Either way, those are not people who are ready to make a move, and you need to be surrounded by people who are jumping.

Last, you must fortify yourself with supporters. Not people who are hating on you, or who are trying to do exactly what you’re doing and steal your ideas. But people in your life who genuinely want to see you win. I am very blessed to have such people in my life. Successful friends and other clients, but also childhood friends who are doing their own thing and have no desire to do what I do! Those people are readily apparent in your life. Tag them into your success!

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