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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

Friendships

I GIVE THANKS FOR AN ATTITUDE OF FRIENDLINESS THAT ENRICHES MY LIFE.

If you feel left out, ignored, or forgotten by your friends or associates, examine your attitudes. Are you making an effort to be friendly? Are you thoughtful of others? Do you express interest in your friends and associates? Do you express appreciation?

Often we become so wrapped up in our own affairs or those of our immediate family that we neglect our associations with others. Don’t be guilty of that, for others are very important to your own growth and unfoldment. In order to live a balanced life, there must be a sharing with others and an expansion of human contacts. Other people bless our life; we bless theirs.

If you need to take the first step in establishing friendly relationships, prayer will reveal what you are to do. As you realize your unity with God and other people, you will be guided into right relationships with those in your world. You will be given new and rewarding friendships. Express an attitude of friendliness to all people and great will be your reward.

And Jonathan made David reaffirm his vow of friendship again, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself. (I Samuel 20:17)

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.