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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 am happy, for I know that God is here, right where I am. I give thanks for this wonderful awareness.

What is happiness? One person’s concept may be quite different from another’s. To some the greatest happiness comes by sharing a special talent with the world. Others may find happiness in communing with the beauty of nature, in friendships, in being with people, or in being alone.

Actually, happiness is the by-product of knowing and feeling the presence of God. In whatever activity we are momently involved, we are happy if it reveals God’s presence more clearly to us.

This explains the mystery of why many people are truly happy, yet do not seem to have what the world thinks is necessary for happiness. This also explains why others, while possessing that which the world believes should bring happiness, are nevertheless miserable.

God is the source of all good. When we dwell in the conscious awareness of God’s presence, we will know happiness.

These things have I spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. (John 15:11)

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.