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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

Happiness

I ACCEPT THE HAPPINESS THAT COMES FROM MY AWARENESS OF GOD’S BEAUTY IN ALL CREATION. I RADIATE HAPPINESS INTO MY WORLD.

Happiness is for you. Remember that the good news of Jesus Christ includes freedom and joy. It is right for you to enjoy life, to take pleasure in wholesome activities.

You have been given many things in which to find happiness. Give thanks for them. Notice the beauty all around you, which is given to you freely. Behold nature with its trees, shrubs, grass, and flowers; the sunrise and sunset; birds and animals. You have also been given the gift of people—family members, friends, or others you see in your daily routine.

Cultivate your ability to appreciate the beauty around you, whether in nature, people, or experiences. As you become more conscious of beauty, you will begin to radiate it to others. Your happiness, in order to be real, must be shared.

Happiness is good for you. It helps your body function more effectively and upgrades your outer world of experience. Be the happy, wholesome, vital, alive person God created you to be!

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed are those who trust in God! (Psalm 34:8)

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.