Igniting Hope Ministries

"I am an atheist." Levi responds, "Oh, really, that is so exciting. God always shows up when I am around an atheist." Join Steve Backlund as he gives you a key to how to flip seemingly difficult moments into opportunities for God to demonstrate His love and power.

Psalm 34:3 says, "Oh, magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt His name together." We cannot make God larger, but we can see Him larger. The more we magnify Him, the smaller our challenges will seem. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares seven things we magnify instead of the Lord (making God seem smaller and our problems seem greater than they really are).

Our circumstances, feelings, past experiences, and words we hear are constantly trying to lie to us about our identity, relationship with God, and our potential. In this message, Steve Backlund will inspire you to not receive the negative messages these are trying to send us.

Steve Backlund interviews his wife, Wendy, about her best-selling book, Victorious Emotions. Wendy shares why she wrote it and key truths in the book. This podcast has many gems of revelation in it that will bless your life.

Faith without hope is unhealthy. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares why and gives keys for increasing your hope and seeing your desires realized. Get ready to be inspired and empowered to abound in hope and to thrive while you are waiting for God's promises to manifest.

Often our frustrations, lack of purpose, emptiness, and emotional challenges result from an anemic spiritual diet. It is surprising what happens when we increase our intake of good spiritual food. Join Steve Backlund on this inspiring message which will give you simple, but profound keys for breakthrough.

In one of the churches we pastored, Wendy (my wife) and I started a group called Mediocre Anonymous. We did this because we noticed that most twelve-step programs tended to take people from crisis to average, and we wanted to establish a twelve-step program for people addicted to mediocrity to help take them from average to great. This podcast will share with you the tenets and twelve steps of Mediocre Anonymous.

If God wanted us to think small and with limitations for our lives, he sure did a bad job in telling us so. Join Steve Backlund as he shares some of his favorite Bible verses and key revelations that have ignited him to think and dream big.

Our emotional load-bearing capacity is connected to the strength of our beliefs. In this message, Steve Backlund will inspire and equip you to have spiritual body builder beliefs.

When we attach faith to an assignment, responsibility, or commitment, we will experience cheerfulness, energy, and power as a result. Join Steve Backlund as he further expands on one of the most life-launching truths in Scripture. This is a message for those who want to let go of mediocrity, passivity, victimhood, and double-mindedness. Get ready to be challenged and inspired by this great message.

Just as a butterfly in the cocoon needs the struggle to strengthen its wings to fly, we too need the struggle to be able to build the character, endurance, and load-bearing capacity to be able to keep and increase the blessing of our promised land.

In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares about the power of attaching faith to future happenings (whether it is five minutes from now or 100 years from now). Get ready to receive one of the best keys for joy, victory, and influence.

Join Steve Backlund as he shares some transformational truths from his upcoming new book, Fully Convinced. Romans 14 is a vital chapter for those who desire freedom, joy, and increased influence. Get ready to be inspired and get ready to get spiritual rocket boosters for your life.

Join Steve Backlund as he shares the crippling effects of perfectionism and 5 ways to overcome it.

Frankl survived the Nazi concentration camps and helped millions afterward through his writings and through therapy to get hope. He had at the core of his therapy this truth: human beings are driven by their views of their own future. The more positive the future is seen, the more power and purpose there will be you for the present. Joni Steve Backlund as he shares another powerful message on hope.

The Apostle Paul told a young leader name Timothy "war a good warfare with the prophesies previously spoken about him" (1 Timothy 1:18). He was not to war against people or circumstances but against lies in his own thinking. Join Steve Backlund today as he shows you how to fight with God has said.

Steve shares a powerful principle he is releasing in his upcoming new book and online course, "Fully Convinced: The Art of Decision Making." The quality of our decision-making is greatly influenced by the quality of relationships we have developed.

Steve Backlund shares six traits of dynamic decision-makers. This is content from his upcoming new book, "Fully Convinced: The Art of Decision Making (Attaching Great Faith to Who We Are and What We Do)."

“Let us hold fast the confession of hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23). Join Steve Backlund in this podcast as he shares the why and how of being a "confesser of hope."

The best definition of repentance is "to change the way you think." It is a lifestyle, not an event. Join Steve Backlund in this podcast broadcast that will challenge common views of what repentance looks like, and give you a catalytic key for your life.

Join Steve Backlund as he shares how he became convinced of joy's importance for our physical, spiritual, and emotional health. He shares keys for how to increase joy in your life. Get ready to be inspired and empowered through this message.

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

Join this simulcast of Steve Backlund's podcast. He shares from his upcoming book, "Fully Convinced: The Art of Decision Making." This message will strengthen you ability to attach faith to key areas of your life.

Steve Backlund shares five keys to experience the rest promised to us in Hebrews 4.

In this message, Beliefs Specialist Steve Backlund will help you break off the tendency of focusing on what you lack and actually see what you do have (which is the key to breakthrough and increase).

In this message, Steve Backlund takes an excerpt out of his upcoming book and online course, Fully Convinced. He releases revelation and keys for breakthrough from Elijah's question in 1 Kings 18:21, "How long will you waver between two opinions?"

"Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? (Isaiah 43:19). Preconceived ideas of how God is going to manifest and who He is going to use can be a big blockage in experiencing the "new things.". The Pharisees and Sadducees missed Jesus because He was not what they expected the Messiah to be. This message will greatly help you to not miss the new things God has for you.

Steve Backlund attacks regret in this powerful message.

Steve Backlund uses findings about fleas, elephants, and cows to help us defeat self-limiting beliefs. This fun-filled message has a key to your breakthrough and increased influence.

Steve Backlund shares this powerful message. Those who watch or listen to this will: - Gain insight into what their life calling might be - Understand that resources follow quality decisions, not the other way around - Recognize the Book of Nehemiah is an important book in this hour

Good questions lead us into life-changing revelations. The question, "Should we feel good about ourselves?" is one of the best that we can ask. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares from his experience insights he has received on this great question.

In this podcast Steve Backlund shares what the critical spirit is, where it comes from, why it needs to be overcome, and how to overcome it. As you listen, you will be taken higher in your beliefs about God, yourself, and others.

What frees us from the curse of oppression, sickness, poverty, and negative habits? Is it the power of God or the truths of God? In this impactful podcast, Steve Backlund discusses the importance of each, and the priority of one of them.

Optimism is hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something. In this message, Steve Backlund compares biblical optimism with positive thinking. You will be inspired toward positivity in your life through what you hear, but it will be on the empowered through truth and the faithfulness of God.

300th Podcast Episode! Steve Backlund continues to share on the power of speaking faith declarations. In this podcast he shares four more reasons for doing so: 1) Declarations helps us overcome anxiety, 2) Declarations helps us to abide in the word, 3) Making declarations is part of taking up the sword of the Spirit, and 4) Declarations pull down strongholds, demolish arguments, and take thoughts captive.

Steve continues his story on why he makes declarations and how they have changed his life. He shared part one at Bethel Church AM service on February 20, 2022 which can be seen via YouTube.

Effective people have developed good habits in their lives. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares four habits of the Apostle Paul that are in Philippians 4. Get ready to be inspired and equipped in this message.

In this message, Steve Backlund extracts truth from Acts 10 and 11 which will help you grow in confidence and overcome doubt in your life.

Felix told the Apostle Paul, "Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you." There is rarely a time when it is convenient to pursue radical growth, change, joy, or deeper heart connections with people. in this message, Steve Backlund will inspire you to not wait for ideal circumstances to move forward in powerful habits.

Steve Backlund will inspire you to not quit by releasing powerful truths and promises from Galatians 6:9. “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart".

I have been inspired recently by a strategy of personal growth by my wife Wendy. When she believes a message or audio book is something God has for her, she will listen to it over and over again until it gets in her spirit deeply. With that in mind, I want to revisit two of my favorite and my powerful teachings. This podcast will release revelation and four beliefs that are truly life-changing.

When the Bible talks about "pulling down strongholds," what is it really referring to? In this message, Steve Backlund shares one of the most important keys that has radically changed his life and increased his influence.

The quality of our lives is largely determined by the choices we make. One of the ways to improve our decision-making is to understand and overcome the main reasons why people make poor choices. Steve Backlund shares six areas we can overcome in our decision-making process.

Steve uses chapter twenty/verse twenty-two of different Bible books to speak prophetically into the coming year.

Steve shares about the incredible hope in the Christmas story, and he shares more about how to start the new year with a radical plan of growth and transformation.

Steve Backlund will ignite your hope in this podcast, plus shares a catalytic forty-day strategy for starting the new year off powerfully. To top it off, he shares his favorite hope quotes.

There is a message that frequently comes through our negative circumstances. It is saying, "These situations define you as a person and limit what your future can be." In this message, Steve Backlund brings a spiritual sledgehammer to accepting as truth these lies.

As America celebrates Thanksgiving, Steve Backlund shares some powerful reasons to increase our saying "thank you" to God and to the people in our lives.

This is a continued blog/podcast from June 2020 which you can find here: https://ignitinghope.com/igniting-hope/standing-strong-in-the-evil-day/ “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand...” (Ephesians 6:13). The "evil day” is not a single day but refers to the times in our lives where we are facing circumstances that seem overwhelming. In this message, Steve Backlund shares empowering keys of how to stand in these times.