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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

Positive Words

I LET GO OF ALL COMPLAINING ATTITUDES. I GIVE THANKS FOR GOD’S BEAUTY AND LIFE NOW MANIFESTING IN AND THROUGH ME.

Avoid the pastime of complaining. Such use of one’s time causes negative conditions to grow and take charge. No matter how much we think we want to avoid or be rid or a negative condition, we only perpetrate it through our negative attitudes expressed in words.

Do you talk about your lack of opportunities or how much you dislike your work? Do you use excuses for your lack of initiative such as, “I’m too old,” “I’m too young,” “I’m too busy,” or “I’m too poor”?

Do you enjoy talking about your tiredness and fatigue, your sick, weak body? Do you take pride in reciting your aches and pains?

Do you enjoy talking about “what’s wrong with the world”—or are you busy trying to make things right?

To indulge in complaining attitudes is to poison your good. You are claiming unwanted conditions. Accepting, claiming, and believing these things makes them grow.

In you there is new life and beauty waiting to express. This is God’s gift to you. Claim it. Accept it. Believe in it.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Proverbs 18:21)

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.