It is very important that you do your best in anything you set out to do. All too many people are trying to get by with poor work, negative attitudes about their jobs, and general inadequacy and inefficiency. These people will never get the best out of life, for they are not giving their best to life.
When it appears that you have done all you can, when your capacities may seem to come to an end, God takes over—and with God all things are possible. God will give you wisdom beyond your conscious knowledge and strength beyond your physical endurance. God gives you courage instead of weakness.
As you do your part, as you work to improve your mind and your mental, spiritual, and physical abilities, you will be a ready and willing channel for God to work through. Work to the utmost of your capacity. God will then expand your capacity and your abilities.
Put your whole self into your project or job. As you give more to everything, you will gain more good results—results in the form of success, prosperity, and a feeling of well-being.
God is with you. God gives you the power to do your best. God will bless all your efforts.
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.