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This website is dedicated to the work of Rev. Joyce Kramer (1930–2022), one of America’s most prolific inspirational ministers whose influence has spread across the globe. Explore her practical teachings for living a happy, healthy, prosperous life—and check back frequently as we add new resources from the goldmine of Joyce Kramer’s spiritual writings and recordings.

Daily Blessings

Qualities

I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY ABILITY TO FACE MY NEGATIVE QUALITIES AND TO CORRECT THEM.

To improve your personality you must learn how to get rid of negative qualities. These are primarily habits, and they can be changed if you make the necessary effort.

Never call attention to your negative qualities; this brings a type of attention that you really don’t want. Pointing out your negative habits is usually the introduction to excuse-making. There is no reason to make excuses when you can make changes instead.

If you believe yourself to be dull and uninteresting, then ask why. Perhaps you have been unwilling to read and keep up with new thoughts and ideas. Exert effort to overcome dullness.

Avoid indulgence in timidity. To give such attention to ourselves leads to self-consciousness. Take the initiative. Put others at ease. Give out of the loving spirit that is within you.

Release the belief in failure. Plan for success and you’ll get it. Establish goals and start toward them. Substitute achievement for failure.

Be honest with yourself regarding any negative quality. Be willing to look at your failings. Negative qualities can be changed once you are honest enough to admit to yourself that they exist.

Your personality is the out-picturing of your consciousness. It is within your power to make it positive and good.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes. (Psalm 119:59)

Radio Broadcasts

A New Year

Dial-A-Blessing Messages

The Power of Imagination

Sermons

Launch Out

Your Divine Plan

By Rev. Joyce Kramer

Transcript of a radio broadcast by Rev. Joyce Kramer, January 21, 2014.

What do you want out of life? Do you know? Few people have any real concrete picture of just what they want out of life. Consequently it seems that they live at the mercy of someone or something other than themselves. Thus we have the belief that we are the victim of things over which we have little or no control.

Each and every person is created with the ability and the power to determine his own future. Man is not at the whim of fate, luck, or chance. Neither is he created to be at the mercy of another person [ . . .]

The Joyce Kramer Ministries logo depicts a dogwood tree planted across the entrance to the church that Rev. Kramer founded in Virginia Beach. Transplanted from her brother’s property in Charlottesville, for eighteen months the tree seemed nothing more than a lifeless stick in the ground. Finally, on a Wednesday afternoon, the decision was made to dig it up, but the lawn maintenance man did not have a shovel with him. The next week, he said, he would come back and discard the dead tree. But that Sunday when Rev. Kramer arrived at church, she noticed a single leaf had appeared on the otherwise barren stick. They left the tree in place, and it grew into one of the most beautiful on the property. This flowering dogwood represents the message of Joyce Kramer Ministries: Growth is always possible; never give up.