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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

Waiting

I give thanks for every moment of time in my life.

We have all witnessed the fussing and fuming of one who has difficulty waiting. There are times, it seems, when we all simply must wait. It does no good to be a horn-honker, an agitator, a pusher, or a fumer. Yes, we do have schedules to keep, appointments to make, and other things we had rather be doing, but we can learn to make “waiting time” valuable also.

It may be a good idea to keep a notebook and pen in our car for just such occasions. While waiting, we could write down our goals and purposes. We could list all of the many things that we someday want to do. We could list all that we want to be! We should always keep an idea file, and waiting time is the perfect opportunity to add to it. When we are receptive to ideas, they do come to us easily.

We can’t always avoid waiting, but we certainly can avoid wasting. Time is precious. Let us treat it so.

I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. (Psalm 130:5)

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.