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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

Pray for Others

I PLACE THOSE FOR WHOM I PRAY LOVINGLY IN GOD’S CARE. I AM GRATEFUL THAT GOD’S GOOD WORK IS BEING DONE IN AND THROUGH THEIR LIVES.

Do you find yourself becoming troubled about another person? Sometimes we feel concern for family members, friends, and acquaintances. Usually it is because we care about them enough to want to help, to see them happier and using good judgment in their approach to life and its problems. How do you handle a situation like this?

Sometimes we don’t seem to know what to say or how to help. However, God does. Instead of allowing ourselves to become anxious and disturbed, we should pray. This is much safer than attempting to impose our will upon another. As we pray for others, we release them into God’s care and keeping. We do not know what is right for them—God does.

Knowing that our loved one is God’s child, and that God’s Spirit is within us, we release any worry thoughts. God’s Spirit in another can be trusted to guide and to inspire the one in need. Be a blessing by praying. Wonderful things happen as a result of prayer. The very power of God is released in and through the one for whom you pray.

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. (I Timothy 2:1)

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.