
How interested are you in solving your problems? Often, we are inclined to complain yet we do nothing about an unpleasant situation. If we are alive and enthusiastic, as children of God should be, the presence of a problem should only stimulate us to overcome it.
If you want to solve your problem, first ask yourself exactly what the problem is. Write it down exactly, precisely stated. Be honest and clear. Then ask the Spirit within you to reveal the cause of this difficulty. Next, determine possible solutions. Write them down. Pray to be guided to choose the best solution. Then act upon your guidance. Stick with it. Carry it out and your problem will be solved.
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.