Igniting Hope Ministries

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.

To be trapped means you are prevented from escaping from a place. In this podcast, Steve Backlund takes truths from his book Fully Convinced: The Art of Decision-Making to help us in areas where we feel trapped by a job, family dynamics, debt, or something else. Get ready to be encouraged and inspired by what he shares.

“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3). As we trust God for wisdom, we will hear divinely inspired strategies for the needs and dreams in our lives. In this uplifting message, Steve Backlund will stir you to ask big and believe big for strategies no other person has heard before.

A lack of hope makes our faith unhealthy. Hope is the safety net if what we believe in faith does not happen. Join Steve Backlund in this revelatory podcast that will help you be a faith AND hope person.

There are few "normal" weeks where it is easy to accomplish goals. Most weeks have some level of unexpected happenings and emotional challenges. Successful people learn how to move forward in non-normal weeks and find keys to overcoming procrastination. Join Steve Backlund in this powerful podcast as he shares his own insights and practices to motivate himself to do great things.

Hebrews 4 is one of the most important chapters in the Bible for personal victory, mental health, and increased positive influence. It emphasizes spiritual rest (which is a sense of peace and trust in our soul - our mind, will, and emotions). We are told to "strive" to enter this rest. In this podcast, Steve Backlund will help convince you of the importance of spiritual rest and the keys for how to experience it.

"Let each be fully convinced in his own mind" (Romans 14:5). As we mature in Christ, we will become more and more convinced in our thinking about God's promises, our identity, the decisions we have made, and in what we do. This inspiring podcast by Steve Backlund will help you become fully convinced like never before.

There is no progress unless someone is trying something new. God needs people who will volunteer to be part of His research and development team. Join Steve Backlund as he shares his own journey with spiritual experimentation and be inspired to do the same.

Join Steve Backlund as he puts on his preaching hat to inspire you with some of his favorite hope quotes and hope revelations. This is a message that some will listen to over and over.

Great leaders not only have good character and good plan, but they also have passion and enthusiasm (a personal fire). In this message, Steve Backlund shares some of the revelations that were revealed to him while he was burning brush on his property. Get ready for spiritual diesel to be poured on your fervor and excitement in life.

One of the biggest emotional challenges people face concerns their finances (especially unplanned financial expenses). In this practical, positive, wisdom-filled, and faith-filled message, Steve Backlund releases a key to overcome being tossed to and fro by unexpected financial expenses.

The disciples saw a huge problem of 5,000+ hungry people with almost no resources to meet their needs. Jesus told them to give what they had so He could multiply it completely to fix the problem. In this podcast, Steve Backlund will inspire you to give the seemingly little you have to Jesus so big personal and societal needs will be met. Get ready to have your vision expanded about the big difference you can make to seemingly insurmountable problems.

Steve Backlund goes deeper into the truths he shared in his previous podcast. He asks the question, "What do you believe God primarily wants you to hear from him?" If, as believers in Jesus, we believe He is primarily speaking about our wrong behavior or lack of commitment, then we need a "filter" upgrade to help us interpret His voice more accurately. You will be blessed, equipped, and inspired by this great message.

One of the greatest callings we can walk in is to be an encourager of ourselves and others. In the podcast, Steve Backlund will inspire and equip you to walk in encouragement like never before.

Financial challenges are one of the biggest stresses people face. In this message, Steve Backlund shares biblical insights to help unlock greater finances to flow to you. Get ready to be inspired and equipped for breakthrough as you listen to this podcast. For more resources visit: https://www.ignitinghope.com Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ignitinghope Instagram: https://instagram.com/ignitinghope Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevebacklund

In this message, Steve Backlund shares seven reasons why healthy mindsets and habits regarding finances are the training ground for God releasing to us true spiritual riches like peace, influence, power, trust, favor, love, and more.

Having a poverty spirit causes us to see life through the lens of lacking what is needed to live victoriously and with significant influence. In this podcast, Steve Backlund identifies seven signs of the poverty spirit and then shares three keys to overcoming this negative mindset.

Transformation does not come from surrendering our hearts to God, but by surrendering our beliefs to Him. It is necessary to surrender our hearts, but we will be unable to be free emotionally or circumstantially if we are believing lies. Join Steve Backlund for this insightful and inspiring message. Learn more about Steve and Wendy's ministry at ignitinghope.com.

Successful people know what to prioritize and not focus on. This message will help you break off the guilt, embarrassment, and inferiority created by things we are not even called to address at this time.

Steve Backlund's definition of joy is this: It is the childlike wonder and excitement of working with God instead of working for God. In this message, Steve expounds on the various parts of this definition. Get ready to have your joy tank filled through this podcast.

Many people at funerals regret that they had not said more loving and appreciative words to the one. who passed away. This podcast will motivate and empower you to say what you need to say now to the people in your life.

"Take every thought captive" (2 Corinthians 10:5). In this fun and powerful podcast, Steve Backlund shares the how and why of deleting the self-defeating lies that we are tempted to believe.

"Steve, you do not need more money, you need a new idea." This is a good word to break out. of lack, but one idea can be the key to breakthrough concerning personal weaknesses, relational challenges, illnesses, and more. Join Steve Backlund as he inspires and equips you to become more creative in how you think and in what you do.

In 1 Peter 1, wives with unbelieving husbands are told to win the husband first to themselves and then to their words. This is a profound principle for those who want to increase their favor and be heard at a higher level. Join Steve Backlund in this powerful podcast that will help you to go to the next level of in relationships and influence.

We all need "You can do it!" voices speaking into our lives. In this impactful podcast, Steve Backlund uses Joshua 1 to speak a timely and encouraging word into your life.

In this podcast, Steve Backlund inspires and encourages us to stir up our hope for 2023. It will a major key to increasing our personal victory and influence.

Our hopelessness about a problem is almost always a bigger problem than the problem. Join Steve Backlund as he helps us identify what to prioritize as we seek to overcome problems or enter into a higher level of God's purpose for our life.

We all have "sticky situations" in our relationships. Whether it is in our family, at work, in our church, with friends, or with someone else, there are things we can do which will increase the likelihood of our having a positive influence on the relationship and situation. Steve Backlund shares six of these in this timely podcast that will help your influence go to another level.

Do you ever feel like you don't belong in the role you're in or that you are not good enough for job? That's a common feeling, but false humility and hiding our gifts is actually a form of selfishness.

In 1 Samuel 16, Samuel was neutralized by disappointment. The Lord jolted him out of despondency with new hope for the future. In this message, Steve Backlund will inspire and equip you to overcome disappointment and to move forward in purpose in this incredible season of your life.

In these challenging times, our beliefs are either going to be an anchor to our soul or they are going to create further problems for us. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares important beliefs for us to have in this hour.