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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

Higher Ground

I USE EVERY CHALLENGE IN MY LIFE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GROW.

When we begin to study math we start with the easiest of problems. As we learn how to solve these, we move on to more difficult ones. So it is in life. As we solve our day-by-day challenges wisely, we grow into a stronger, more mature, more capable individual.

Some people feel they are held back by heredity, environment, or more unfortunate circumstances. Never permit yourself to fall into the trap of resentment, bitterness, or self-pity. Neither use any outer things as an excuse for ineffectiveness now.

Everyone has problems to solve, challenges to meet. So what? As a creative individual you are capable of handling wisely all that comes your way.

Meeting the challenges that confront you is like climbing a mountain in stages. Each effort brings you to a higher point than before until at last you reach the top. Knowing this, enthusiastically face every challenge as a new opportunity to move up higher.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:2)

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.