Join Steve Backlund as he muses about the concepts of pre-marriage counseling can relate to those who are saying yes to a God assignment in their life. Just as in marriage where couples are surprised by what they face, leaders often are surprised too with what they experience. This message will help you and help those you influence about preparing for their leadership assignment.

Double-mindedness (doubt in and after decision making) is the enemy of great influencers. In this teaching, Steve Backlund shares wisdom on how to make decisions in faith, and how to stay in faith after the decision is made. Get ready to have your decision making skills increase dramatically as you listen.

Steve Backlund releases a powerful key in this message to experience radical hope every time you read the Bible.

 “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke 2:52). Like Jesus, we are to grow into greater promotion and influence. Promotion is an advancement in our rank or position. True promotion first starts on the inside of us. In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives practical ways for you to increase the likelihood you will be invited into places of greater influence.

Paul the Apostle said, “I have fought the good fight.” We are in a battle between spiritual forces of good and evil. It is foolish and detrimental to ignore this. Even so, many of the explanations concerning this spiritual warfare have overemphasized the devil and underemphasized our beliefs. In this teaching Steve Backlund shares what he believes is the most effective, most biblical, and most life producing spiritual warfare in the world.

Steve Backlund proposes his theory that “Thank you” are the two most important words in the world. Learn on this message the powerful personal and corporate benefits of intentionally increasing gratitude.

Sports teams spend more time practicing than they do playing in games. They work on the fundamentals of their sport, plus they prepare for specific things they will face in upcoming games. People who win in life understand what they will face, and they prepare themselves in their beliefs and practices to be overcomers. Get ready to be inspired and instructed from this powerful teaching.

Great influencers learn how to inspire and encourage themselves. Those who are most effective at this are not depending on positive thinking, but they have clear reasons for this self-encouragement. In this message, Steve Backlund gives you seven reasons why you can be radically encouraged now.