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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

Talents

I GIVE THANKS FOR MY GOD-GIVEN TALENTS. I PUT THEM TO WORK AND MY LIFE IS BLESSED.

Are you a person who claims to have no talent? The truth is, you have dozens of God-given talents, largely unrecognized, yet ready to be used at any time.

Talent is defined as the abilities, powers, and gifts bestowed upon human beings as a divine trust. You have talents in abundant measure.

What about your ability to think? Are you using this talent wisely by thinking only good, constructive thoughts?

You have the ability to believe. God says yes to your beliefs, and only you can determine your beliefs. “According to your faith is it done unto you.”

To praise is a talent. It is a way of expressing appreciation, which establishes harmony and good responses. All people and things thrive on praise.

One of your greatest gifts is the talent to pray. Prayer is the way you privately commune with God, who is the source of your abundant good.

Start where you are now to use your talents. You will become aware of many more. Put them to work and you will have a happy, blessed life.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. (I Peter 4:10)

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.