Igniting Hope Ministries

By Steve Backlund

Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

What's Igniting Hope Ministries about?

Equipping individuals with hope, joy, and divine strategies for success.

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Igniting Hope Ministries episodes:

04.19.2024
The Blessing of Closed Doors
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...
04.12.2024
The Word Works
”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...
04.05.2024
Winning the Thinking Battle in the Morning & Evening
”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.
03.29.2024
Goliath's Morning & Evening Taunts
”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...
03.22.2024
Don't Just Try to Fix Things
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...
03.15.2024
Words To Ignite Your Faith
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.
03.08.2024
What Are You Doing Here, Elijah?
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...
03.01.2024
You Can Do It!
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...
02.23.2024
There Is Always a Solution
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.”
02.16.2024
This IS the Moment!
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...
02.09.2024
Thankful But Not Satisfied
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.
02.02.2024
Overcoming the Poverty Mindset
”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...
01.26.2024
Colonel Sanders and Your Finances
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.
01.19.2024
Positively Influencing Your Leaders
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...
01.12.2024
Don’t Withdraw Your Heart
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.Join Steve Backlund in this podcast to...
01.05.2024
Hope is Excitement for the Future
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...
12.29.2023
2024: God Multiplying What We Dedicate to Him
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...
12.22.2023
6 Christmas Prophetic Words for You
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...
12.15.2023
2024: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Prepare For It
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.
12.08.2023
Revelation and Impartation
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
12.01.2023
Is There Really A Difference?
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...
11.24.2023
This is the Day
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...
11.17.2023
I Wish Somebody Would Have Told Me
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.
11.10.2023
Faith Without Hope is Weird
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...
11.03.2023
How to Write Your Own Declarations
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.
10.27.2023
Take Heed HOW You Hear
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.
10.20.2023
Take Heed What You Hear
In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares life-giving truths about being disciplined in let ourselves really hear.
10.13.2023
Steve, Stop Fixating on That!
Steve Backlund shares his own journey of overcoming the tendency to focus on what is wrong with himself, others, and situations.Get ready to see your influence and fulfillment increase as you receive the words of this podcast.
10.06.2023
Positively Influencing Others
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.
09.29.2023
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.
09.22.2023
Compound & Isolated Belief Workouts
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.
09.15.2023
4 Ways to Stay Encouraged
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.
09.08.2023
Increasing the Likelihood
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.
09.01.2023
Jet Lag or Jet Bounce?
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.
08.25.2023
Leadership Pillars: Gladness and Empowerment
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).
08.18.2023
Leaders Pillars: Speaking Life and Faith-Filled Decision-Making
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.
08.11.2023
Leadership Pillars: Intentionality and Healthy Relationships
In this podcast earn from Steve Backlund two of his most important core values that have blessed many.
08.05.2023
8 Pillars of Leadership Part 1
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.
07.29.2023
Unexpected Favor Is Looking For You
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.
07.21.2023
Why am I not radically joyful now? (Archive Episode)
Happiness comes from what happens to us, while joy comes from what we know. Get ready to receive a radical personal growth and kingdom advancing key in this message.
07.19.2023
What do you need to believe to have hope? (Archive Episode)
Join Steve Backlund on this podcast where he discusses one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves.
07.07.2023
Do Not Grow Weary
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...
06.30.2023
What Beliefs Are We to Strengthen?
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.
06.23.2023
”I Feel Trapped”
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,...
06.19.2023
Unlocking Innovative Strategies
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...
06.09.2023
Adding Hope to Our Faith
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.
06.01.2023
How to Motivate Yourself to Do Great Things
Join Steve Backlund in this powerful podcast as he shares his own insights and practices to motivate himself to do great things.
05.26.2023
Striving To Enter His Rest
Hebrews 4 is one of the most important chapters in the Bible for personal victory, mental health, and increased positive influence. In this podcast, Steve Backlund will help convince you of the importance of spiritual rest and the keys for...
05.19.2023
Fully Convinced
”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...
05.12.2023
Spiritual Experimentation
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...

What's Igniting Hope Ministries about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Igniting Hope Ministries episodes:

The Blessing of Closed Doors

The Word Works

Winning the Thinking Battle in the Morning & Evening

Goliath's Morning & Evening Taunts

Don't Just Try to Fix Things

Words To Ignite Your Faith

What Are You Doing Here, Elijah?

You Can Do It!

There Is Always a Solution

This IS the Moment!

Thankful But Not Satisfied

Overcoming the Poverty Mindset

Colonel Sanders and Your Finances

Positively Influencing Your Leaders

Don’t Withdraw Your Heart

Hope is Excitement for the Future

2024: God Multiplying What We Dedicate to Him

6 Christmas Prophetic Words for You

2024: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Prepare For It

Revelation and Impartation

Is There Really A Difference?

This is the Day

I Wish Somebody Would Have Told Me

Faith Without Hope is Weird

How to Write Your Own Declarations

Take Heed HOW You Hear

Take Heed What You Hear

Steve, Stop Fixating on That!

Positively Influencing Others

Loving God and Loving Life

Compound & Isolated Belief Workouts

4 Ways to Stay Encouraged

Increasing the Likelihood

Jet Lag or Jet Bounce?

Leadership Pillars: Gladness and Empowerment

Leaders Pillars: Speaking Life and Faith-Filled Decision-Making

Leadership Pillars: Intentionality and Healthy Relationships

8 Pillars of Leadership Part 1

Unexpected Favor Is Looking For You

Why am I not radically joyful now? (Archive Episode)

What do you need to believe to have hope? (Archive Episode)

Do Not Grow Weary

What Beliefs Are We to Strengthen?

”I Feel Trapped”

Unlocking Innovative Strategies

Adding Hope to Our Faith

How to Motivate Yourself to Do Great Things

Striving To Enter His Rest

Fully Convinced

Spiritual Experimentation