Igniting Hope Ministries

This message will give you great wisdom and inspiration to grow personally and in your influence.

Steve Backlund interviews his wife Wendy about best selling book, Victorious Emotions. You will be inspired and equipped with truths and habits to grow in emotional victory.

Steve Backlund shares about a dog he had many years ago named Snoopy. When he heard the sound of his leash moving, it was like he was shot out of a cannon and came running to where the leash was. Because of this, he frequently pulled future walks into his present experience. In this message, you will be inspired to become just as excited as Snoopy to hear what God is really saying to you. 

Andrew brought his brother, Simon Peter, to Jesus (John 1:40-42). He is one of a number of biblical characters who were instrumental in connecting key people with the people or resources that would change their lives and change history. In this faith-filled, prophetic message, you will receive grace to strategically influence people like never before.

One of the most important skills and habits to develop is the ability to encourage ourselves so we can fulfill our purpose and be a greater strength to others. In this message, Steve Backlund gives you seven reasons that will stir you today to be encouraged.

In this powerful podcast, Steve Backlund interviews Dr. Andy and Jenny Fitzgerald on hearing God's voice. This message is simple, profound, empowering, and gives hope in great ways.

This powerful message gives powerful insights into what mind renewal is and how to do it effectively. It also will release grace over you to be more intentional in your thinking so you can see life-launching transformation in your emotions and life. 

Negative worry is imagining your future if God does not show up. Positive worry is imagining your future if God fully shows up. In this fun and inspirational podcast, Steve Backlund will help open you up to a new way of thinking. 

Psychology Today describes perfectionism as “a trait that makes life an endless report card on accomplishments or looks. A fast and enduring track to unhappiness, it is often accompanied by depression and eating disorders. What makes perfectionism so toxic is that while those in its grip desire success, they are most focused on avoiding failure, so theirs is a negative orientation This podcast will help you identify perfectionism in your own life and help you overcome it. 

Steve Backlund shares five more of his favorite quotes. He releases some zingers about hope, efficiency vs. effectiveness, healthy relationships, how to have more energy, and intentionality.

Join Steve Backlund as he unpacks some of his favorite, power-packed one-liners. This will be a "now word" podcast for many who listen. 

If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). Taking the high road means maintaining integrity and honor even when others don't. This message will help you live a fulfilled life and be trusted by other people.

"For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17). In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares why he embraces the belief joy is 1/3 of the kingdom. This message will stir up your gladness, challenge you in good ways, and will give you practical ways to increase your joy. 

Igniting Hope's Associate Director Connie Jones joins Steve Backlund to discuss the power of Romans 5:17 - "How much more those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life." This podcast will inspire you to discover the biblical keys to live a victorious life. 

Radical means extreme or very different from the usual or traditional. In this podcast, Steve Backlund challenges the listener to break out of ruts and routines and do something different. He is not talking about any kind of political radicalization, but he does give many ideas about how we can jump-start our lives, finances, relationship with God, our families, our health, and more. 

Remembering testimonies of God's past faithfulness in our lives is an important component of renewing our minds. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares from Mark 8 where the disciples failed to do this, and why Jesus thought this was a big problem. 

The Pareto principle says that 80% of our outcomes come from 20% of our causes. In this message, Steve Backlund helps us identify the most important 20%'s in our lives so we can have increased victory spiritually, emotionally, relationally, financially, and more.     

Join Steve Backlund as he inspires and encourages you to speak life to those who are closest to you and to many others     

In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives five spiritual ways to increase your energy for yourself, your family, your leadership teams, and your organizations.     

Faith people with hope live while they are waiting for their desires to be fulfilled. Faith people without hope are waiting for something to change before they live. In this riveting message, Steve Backlund releases a great truth for people who want to see their dreams fulfilled. 

Steve Backlund shares a valuable insight for healthy relationships, restorative leadership, and greater discipleship of people. He uses his dog Daisy's struggle to trust people as the foundation for this important message

Abram, who became Abraham, an Old Covenant character is held up to us as the example of how to live in the New Covenant. He pulled a New Covenant experience into the Old Covenant. Unfortunately, many Christians pull an Old Testament way of thinking into the New Covenant. In this podcast, Steve Backlund explores five of the most important verses (Romans 4:17-21) describing Abraham's process of believing and then experiencing God's promises. In these verses, you will find keys to experience God's promises for you as well. 

 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11). This famous verse is part of a greater word for the Children of Israel that is important for us to understand. This podcast will encourage those who battle disappointment, mediocrity, fatalism, and the victim mindset. 

We all love open doors (to be chosen or to enter into a seemingly great opportunity) but closed doors can create disappointment and a victim mindset unless we see things from a higher perspective. Join Steve Backlund in this powerful teaching that will be a now word for many who listen.

"The word of God is living and powerful" (Hebrews 4;12). In this message, Steve Backlund shares how we can live powered by God's word, rather than by human strength. Get ready to see some familiar Bible verses in a new way that will help you increase your faith in what God is saying rather than what you need to do.   

Steve Backlund gives part two of last week's podcast, "Goliath's Morning and Evening Taunts", Lies often sound more real in the morning and evening. Joshua was instructed by the Lord (Joshua 1:8) to have a strategy for these times. "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night . . . " This podcast will help you develop or strengthen your own plan for these important parts of the day.

 "And the Philistine (Goliath) drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening" (1 Samuel 17:16). Lies fueling our self-talk tend to sound more real in the mornings and evenings. In this message, Steve Backlund will inspire and equip you to execute a good plan to make mornings and evenings your most powerful truth times of the day

If we are only trying to fix what's wrong in our lives and not strengthen what is right, we will have difficulty advancing. In this message, Steve Backlund shares insights in how to focus on the things that will truly make a difference. 

In this thermostatic message, Steve Backlund puts on his coaching hat and speaks life into the listener. If we are going to experience something higher, we must believe something higher. If we are going to believe something higher, we must hear something higher than what we are feeling and experiencing. This podcast will cause you to hear necessary truths that will dismantle self-limiting beliefs in your life.     

In 1 Kings 19, Elijah was in a physical cave and in a spiritual cave. When we are in a spiritual cave, what we think is true is not true, even though it feels really true. In this message, Steve Backlund uses Elijah's experience to help us get out of or stay out of spiritual caves.   

In Joshua chapter one, God repeatedly encouraged Joshua, the new leader of the Israelites, that he could be strong and courageous In essence, He was saying, "You can do it!". In this podcast, Steve Backlund puts on his coaching hat and inspires you, like Joshua, that you can do it too. 

Self-limiting beliefs are not just to be resisted but are to be replaced with specific truths that will demolish these limitations. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares the life-changing belief, "There is always a solution."

Our feelings of shame, regret, disappointment, unworthiness, insecurity, discouragement, bitterness, offense, victimhood, and frustration are almost always a bigger issue than what seems to be causing them. In this podcast, Steve Backlund will inspire you to see the moment these emotions manifest in us as an exciting opportunity to pull down a stronghold in our lives. 

Thankfulness and a hunger for positive change create a catalytic combination. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares the importance of each and how to combine them effectively for inner victory and maximum impact.   

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not lack" (Psalm 23:1). David had an abundance mindset that inspires us to think higher about the resources that will flow to us and through us. In this message, Steve Backlund shares some root reasons for a poverty mindset, and he gives wisdom for how to break out of it.     

"And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth" (Deuteronomy 8:18). Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders did not open his first restaurant until he was 62 and did not receive funding for franchises until he was 74. It is not too late to move forward with dreams that will bless others and profit you (and others). In this podcast, Steve Backlund inspires you to believe for incredible ideas in the days ahead. He also shares three keys to increase your finances in the days ahead. 

 We all have leaders over us. They could be pastors, managers, teachers, parents, ministry leaders, or someone else. The relationship we have with them is something to be stewarded well. They will influence us, and we have the privilege of them becoming better and more successful because of us. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares five ways we can positively influence the leaders in our lives.

I will not withdraw my heart from people who disappoint me or that I hear negative information about." This is a powerful belief and declaration for those who want healthy relationships and increased influence. It does not mean we don't have boundaries in our interactions with people, but the tendency to withdraw our hearts from people will not benefit us or others if we persist in it. Join Steve Backlund in this podcast to help create healthy relationships everywhere you go. 

The biblical definition of hope is the joyful expectation of good coming. Excitement for the future encapsulates this definition. Excitement is a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness. In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives practical insight into what true hope really is. This is a great message as we start 2024. 

In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares what he is prophetically sensing for 2024. This is a year where we will tempted to feel powerless concerning the great needs that are around us, but we already have what is needed to make the difference. Get ready to be excited about what your seeming little can do when it. is put into the hands of a supernatural God.    

The Christmas story in the Bible is full of insights into how God accomplishes His purposes on earth. In this podcast, Steve Backlund takes six aspects of Jesus Christ's birth and uses them as prophetic insights into how God will work in our own lives in the days ahead. 

Good questions will help us to hear from God in a greater way. In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives you five questions to help you get greater spiritual insight and to prepare for a great 2024.   

Revelation and impartation are two divine graces bringing increased victory and greater influence. In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives important insights to help value and access them both

One of the biggest lies that we are tempted to believe is that there is a big difference between us and our favorite Bible characters. This lie wants to disqualify us and make us feel less than we really are. In this fun and podcast, Steve Backlund obliterates this falsehood and gives us greater hope for our lives.     

This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it" (Psalm 118:24). In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares the importance and power of this verse, plus powerful reasons for why we should rejoice and be glad today. 

In the Old Testament the Promised Land had giants in it to be defeated. In our New Testament dispensation, the "giants" to be conquered are mindsets (strongholds) like disappointment, pessimism, victimhood, shame, unworthiness, inferiority, and more. We all will experience these at some level. In this message, Steve Backlund shares powerful truths that he wished someone would have told him 40 years ago. 

Many people of faith lack hope, therefore they believe they cannot really live until a specific breakthrough has happened. Faith people with hope live while they are waiting. They are delighters in the Lord, and their delighting is key to seeing desires realized

Steve Backlund and Igniting Hope Ministries share many lists of faith declarations (in books and on their website) to use to overcome lies, strengthen specific beliefs, and see transformation. These have been a blessing to hundreds of thousands. Besides these, it is very powerful to use our own wording in proclaiming truth. In this message, Steve Backlund gives insights into how to do this, plus shares insights on the topic of declarations. 

God's main plan for us to get into the kingdom and advance in the kingdom is this: hearing good news and believing it. In this podcast, Steve Backlund adds more insights to last week's message "Take Heed What You Hear".  Get ready to be encouraged, inspired, and equipped with this message. 

Victorious people learn how to not receive messages sent to us through words, circumstances, or emotions that are contrary to what God is saying to us. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares life-giving truths about being disciplined in let ourselves really hear.     

Steve Backlund shares his own journey of overcoming the tendency to focus on what is wrong with himself, others, and situations. He reveals why we do this and gives five keys to overcome fixating on what is wrong.  Get ready to see your influence and fulfillment increase as you receive the words of this podcast.