Igniting Hope Ministries

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.

Steve Backlund takes truths from his book The Culture of Empowerment to help you grow your influence in your family, workplace, church, friends, and elsewhere.

1 Peter 3:10 is a fascinating verse. It says, "He would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil . . . " There is a difference between loving God and loving life. In this podcast, Steve Backlund explores this and gives great insights into how to live it out. Get ready for an increase in childlikeness, wonder, and taking control of your words like never before.

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:8). Bodily exercise is good, but belief workouts are more important. In this life-giving podcast, Steve Backlund shares about two types of exercise workouts to reveal powerful truths about the importance of working out our beliefs, and then how to do it. Get ready for increase and breakthrough as you listen.

Discouragement is a loss of confidence or enthusiasm; dispiritedness: One of the greatest life skills we can learn is to learn how to encourage ourselves. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares four powerful ways to do so.

“This is going to be a powerful day!” The moment we say this, the percentage chances of it being a powerful day went up. It does not guarantee it, but it is now more likely it will happen than before we said it. In this message, Steve Backlund explores how we can strategically give God things to work with to live a fulfilling and impactful life. Get ready to be inspired toward creative ideas of seeing your God-given dreams fulfilled.

Steve Backlund uses his experience of changing his mindset from jet lag to jet bounce in his travel to inspire you to overcome self-limiting beliefs in your own life.

Steve Backlund finishes his four-week leadership series with the last two of his eight pillars of leadership: the culture of gladness and empowering others (building big people).

Steve Backlund continues his four-part series on leadership. This message about words and decision-making will help equip you to be the influencer people trust and love to be around.

Steve continues the series of his eight pillars of leadership by highlighting intentionality and healthy relationships. Intentionality will cause you to be proactive and increase your talents. Prioritizing healthy relationships will create healthy families and strong team dynamics. In this podcast earn from Steve Backlund two of his most important core values that have blessed many.

Great leaders have great beliefs, great priorities, and great habits. We are all leaders, and the most important person we lead is ourselves. As we lead by strengthening our beliefs, priorities, and habits, our influence will strengthen in our homes, workplaces, churches, cities, and everywhere else we go. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares two of his eight leadership pillars (Inspiring Ourselves and Transformational Beliefs). Get ready for upgrades in wisdom and hope as you listen.

This encouraging, hope-filled, biblically based, and prophetic message by Steve Backlund will help put a spiritual bullseye on you for great favor in the days ahead.

Happiness comes from what happens to us, while joy comes from what we know. In this message, Steve Backlund shares why he believes joy is 1/3 of the kingdom as stated in Romans 14:17. Get ready to receive a radical personal growth and kingdom advancing key in this message.

Join Steve Backlund on this podcast where he discusses one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves.

Do not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time (in due season) we will reap a harvest if we do not give up" (Galatians 6:9). This is one of the most inspiring verses in the Bible. Join Steve Backlund as he dives deep into the power of this verse.

Repentance means to change the way you think. It is a lifestyle, not an event. Abraham was "strengthened in faith (in his thinking), giving glory to God". (Romans 4:20). The main belief he was to strengthen was that he was a father of a multitude. In this life-launching podcast, Steve Backlund shares keys for identifying the beliefs we are to strengthen and then how we can do so and become an Abraham to our generation.