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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

Growth

I GIVE THANKS FOR THE ACTIVITY OF GROWTH THAT IS A VITAL PART OF THE DIVINE PLAN FOR ME.

Growth is a natural part of the life activity. The egg’s shell cracks through the forces of expanding life. Seeds send down roots and send up shoots; leaves unfurl and spread.

When we do not grow, we go against our true nature. The truth is we must grow. If we do not grow from right choice—we are forced to grow through experience. Some must burn their fingers repeatedly before they learn that fire burns every time. Likewise, some must experience sickness, unhappiness, and lack over and over before they learn to release false beliefs that give power to these negative conditions.

We grow into a better life by growing in our conscious awareness of God. We grow in the expression of health as we recognize the life of God within. We grow in happiness as we respond to God’s divine plan for us. We grow in prosperity as we realize that all the Father has is ours. We grow in wisdom as we dwell in God’s light.

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within. (Mark 4:28)

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.