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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

The “Act as if” Principle

THANK YOU, GOD, THAT I AM ABLE TO FULFILL MY HEART’S DESIRE AND BE THE PERSON YOU WANT ME TO BE.

You can manifest joy, enthusiasm, confidence, love, and every other great quality in your personality. In order to do so, you must use the “act as if” principle. Whatever quality it is that you desire, act if you already have that quality and begin to express it now.

William James, often referred to as the Father of American Psychology, said that if a person desires a quality of personality and persistently acts as if he already has it, then eventually he will.

If you wish to be a confident person, then act as if you already are confident. The same is true with any other quality you wish to manifest. Why is this so? Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is within you. A king’s kingdom is full of great riches; therefore, all of God’s own qualities are within you. In order to activate them, we must think thoughts that are conducive to these qualities and act if we already possess them. Try it—and watch what happens!

Stir up the gift of God which is in you. (II Timothy 1:6)

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.