Igniting Hope Ministries

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 i...

 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...

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 year...

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 s...

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, an...

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 se...

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.