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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

Time

I AM GRATEFUL FOR AN ORGANIZED, EFFECTIVE MIND, AND FOR THE GIFT OF GOD’S WONDERFUL DAY.

What controls your life? People sometimes feel restricted by what appears to be a lack of time. Most time shortages are due to our lack of organization and failure to plan. Learn to organize and plan. Make a list of ten things you want or need to do. Which of these is the most important? Put this at the top of your list, then follow it with other items in order of their importance. Once you know what you are going to do first, your mind is free to concentrate on that one thing, rather than worrying about all those other tasks to be done. Even the act of putting things in writing seems to give us an extra push to get moving.

Begin! The only way to start is to start. Begin the first thing on your list, concentrating fully on it. As soon as it is done, move on to the next. When you see that something is finished, you will be more enthusiastic about moving on to the next. You will have time to spare if you will plan effectively.

But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. (I Corinthians 14:40)

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.