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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

Be Still

I AM STILL. I RELAX AND PLACE MY TRUST IN GOD. MY STRENGTH IS RENEWED, AND I AM POISED AND SERENE.

In our busy world it is sometimes hard to be still. Yet we need times of stillness in our day if we would be renewed and healed. A poem by R.H. Grenville contains good advice for us:

Still! There is such healing in the word!
All peace is in it like a quiet pool.
It soothes the frenzied fever of the mind
And is as cool as silvered leaves after a
passing shower.

Be still, my soul! Be still a little hour,
And take content
Into your being like a sacrament.
Calm as a star above some lonely hill,
Tranquil as moonlight in a field of snow,
Unanxious, patient, certain of God’s love,
Be still! Be Still…and KNOW.

Be still and know that God is at work in your life and in the world. Be confident that God’s love and goodness prevail. Go forth today assured of divine guidance in all that you do. Focus your mind upon the Source of your being—God in you. Be poised and serene.

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (Mark 4:39)

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.