We welcome you to The Daily Redemption publication for Saturday, March 22, 2026.
Today’s headline is An Instrument Of God’s Peace – How To Assimilate The Prayer of St Francis.
Welcome, friend. Today we move from reciting a beautiful prayer to living its radical surrender, letting St Francis’s words shape our daily walk with Jesus.
Core Scripture And Commentary:
Romans 12:14-21 — “Bless those who persecute you… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
“I can’t believe what she said to me. The devil must have got her! Well next time I will have a response ready for him!” Are these typical of your responses to those who condemn you for being Christian?
If so then they win. Or even if a fellow worshipper says something to you in the fellowship hall do you feel you immediately must write them off of your will (your “good will”), stop all communications at once
and tell everybody what they did to you? (ooooh that last one is evil – definitely don’t do that) – I only recently have arrived to a place, praise Jesus, where my options no longer include these reactions. Once though I was at
a point where the number of people that I had a grievance with was growing. Until one Sunday morning, in the house of the Lord, 5 of them (almost all) vanished in a flash of righteous peaceful harmonic glory crescendo. Kinda
like the 1812 Overture at the end of July 4th fireworks but without the noise, instead peace bombs. I told this to the pastor when I first saw him at the next Wednesday evening Bible study. He said that it blesses him, personally. As a shepherd would be blessed if all of his sheep decided to walk in the same direction without needing to be shepherded as such I presumed but really I didn’t know why he felt that way. I figured he would be happy and embrace it as good news but I wasn’t trying to bless him I was just happy…. to shed the grievances and worship in peace with my fellows and did feel it was somehow a minor modern miracle. But at that point, but not now, it was more so about me and my feelings about stuff and maybe my efforts to overcome them than service to the Lord and to my fellows. In fact, if you had said that to me… I woulda been insulted! “I can’t believe what she said to me. The devil must have got her! Well next time I will have a response ready for him!” would have been my thoughts then, no doubt. But here is what I realized… when you first grab a score card for the game, you lose. When you start keeping score, you are lost. And when the tally of those who have a grievance with start stacking up then the PROBLEM IS YOU. Do not be overcome by someone out in the world who has chosen to persecute a Christian today. If you allow their evil to darken your soul even one little bit then to that exact degree they win in their unrighteous unholy war. But how dark their soul, how athletic their mental and spiritual gymnastics that they would seek their jollies in such a fashion? If you could “walk, not a mile, but a second, in their footwear you might just collapse in despair for them and when you came out of that you might just be overwhelmed with mercy and forgiveness”. You don’t have to go there at all. Just read and assimilate the scripture herein and you might find that the Prayer of St Francis ties it all together in a concise and beautiful way that helps you embody the spirit of Jesus and His beatitudes. I pray for you to have this transformation. Oh btw do not do communion if you are on the outs with even one brother or sister of the church. It deepens the curse. Ask me or Jimmy or Jessica for the specific scripture that establishes that.
Scripture:
Matthew 5:9 — “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Philippians 2:3-4 — “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”
Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 — “The Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
Colossians 3:12-14 — “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience… And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
Matthew 16:25 — “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Devotional
Assimilating the Prayer of St Francis means letting its paradoxes rewire your heart: to be an instrument, not the source; to give, not get; to die, not defend. Start small. When tension rises, whisper, “Lord, make me Your peace here.” When hurt, ask, “Help me pardon as I’ve been pardoned.” This prayer isn’t a performance—it’s a posture. You don’t manufacture peace; you yield to the Prince of Peace. You don’t force joy; you invite the God of all comfort to flow through your surrender. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s availability. Let the prayer become your breath: in moments of doubt, choose faith; in sadness, welcome hope; in darkness, reflect His light. Over time, you won’t just say the prayer—you’ll live it. And in that surrender, you’ll discover the truth at its close: it is in dying to self that you are born to eternal life.
Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where I cling to control, teach me to release. Where I seek to be understood, help me listen first. Let me sow love where there is hatred, hope where there is despair, light where there is darkness. Not by my strength, but by Your Spirit. I surrender my agenda. Use my hands, my words, my presence. May I not seek to be consoled as to console, not to be loved as to love. I trust the promise: in giving, I receive; in pardoning, I am pardoned; in dying to self, I find true life in You. Amen.
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How do we move from reciting the Prayer of St Francis to truly living it? Today’s Daily Redemption explores practical ways to assimilate this radical call to surrender: becoming an instrument of peace, choosing love over self, and finding life in letting go. If you long for deeper faith that shows up in real moments, this is for you.
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” — Matthew 5:9
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