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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

Be Selective!

I choose the highest and the best. I am a worthy child of God, and this is my divine inheritance.

It takes the same number of hours to read an inspiring book as it does one that simply passes the time. We can use our voices to bring hope and cheer or to spread gossip and discontent. We can use our energy to serve God or to cause inharmony. Which shall it be?

We would certainly never choose a rotten apple to eat instead of a good one. Yet we sometimes choose thoughts that are filled with decay and negativity. We would never deliberately choose a defective article over one that is perfect, and yet we allow confused, broken emotions to remain in our inner world longer than they should.

We must be consciously selective every waking minute, for that which we select becomes a living part of us.

Do you desire health, prosperity, right companionship, happiness? If so, carefully select thoughts of life, abundance, and divine love—and give thanks that all good is your divine heritage!

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. (Job 34:4)

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.