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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 True to Yourself

I PRAISE AND GIVE THANKS THAT THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH GUIDES ME TRULY AND RIGHTLY. I COURAGEOUSLY FOLLOW GOD’S GUIDANCE.

Have you learned to be true to yourself? All too often we spend the major part of our lives being true to everything and everyone but ourselves.

You have been created in the image and likeness of God. Know that the Spirit of Truth will guide you. You do not need to succumb to social pressures, to go along with things because another person says this is the way it should be done. People sometimes conform for fear that they will not be accepted or liked if they go against the pattern, thereby making a god of opinion. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

Concentrate on being true to the Spirit in you—true to what you feel deeply about, true to your life’s work, true to your whole pattern of living. Otherwise, you will shortchange yourself tremendously.

Stand on your own feet. Concentrate on your own ideas. As Shakespeare wrote, “To thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” Listen to the Spirit of Truth within you and follow God’s guidance day by day.

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. (Galatians 1:10)

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.