Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Becoming More like Jesus Through the Prayer of St. Francis
Ebook
Overview
Reflect and inspire the peace of Christ in a world torn by conflict, division, and broken relationships.
In today’s chaotic and polarized culture, many people quietly ask, “What difference can I make?” Instead of reacting with frustration or retreating in silence, what if you could reflect the peace of Christ in ways that ease tensions, inspire others, and encourage healthy conversations? In Make Me an Instrument of Peace, thought-leading pastor and author Mark DeYmaz challenges you to rediscover the radical power―and the deep blessings―of authentic peacemaking. Each chapter unpacks a single line of the famous prayer, commonly attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, for meaningful reflection and life application.
This spiritually rich and timely discipleship resource will help you to:
- explore foundational passages in the Bible, including Isaiah 61 and Luke 4, upon which the Peace Prayer is likely based
- address key questions after each chapter―ideal for personal study or small group discussion
- build a biblical framework and practical roadmap for becoming a peacemaker in the face of injustice and division
- take actionable steps to reject passivity, embrace spiritual formation, and lead others from pain to promise by embodying the humility and hope of Christ
Now more than ever, the world needs believers who don’t just pray for peace and reconciliation―but live for it. Make Me an Instrument of Peace will equip you to step into the tension of our times with clarity, courage, and compassion. It’s a timely and transformative response for Christians longing to advocate for humanity in a hostile world.
In this world of chaos, conflict, and confusion, now is the hour for us all to beat our swords into plowshares and do the demanding work of Christian peacemaking. Mark DeYmaz shows us how to use St. Francis’s Peace Prayer to sow seeds of love, hope, and joy and thereby to align ourselves with Christ’s amazing mission of peace. This is a challenging book but also a necessary book for these calamitous times.
This book is Isaiah 61 with skin on—turning ashes into beauty, despair into hope, and readers into reconcilers. Mark DeYmaz doesn’t just write about peace—he hands you the tools to make it.
The beloved Prayer of St. Francis is as important today as it has been for decades. More than ever, we need to pray that God will help us manifest the love of Jesus in our troubled world. Mark DeYmaz draws from his own life, as well as his years of ministry, to help us do that.
Post-Christian, anti-Christian, deconstructed Christian, red states/blue states, nationalism, anger, division, war. In a deeply segmented world with seemingly growing anger toward Christianity, we need a way forward. Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace is that way forward, a wonderful call for us to focus on the Prince of Peace and demonstrate that peace to a hungry world. This is the Christian witness. Organizing how to practice peace through the Prayer of St. Francis, Mark DeYmaz expertly and clearly guides us to reorient ourselves to draw people to Christ, seek reconciliation, pursue unity, and heal our land.
For those who feel life is heavy or whose faith feels shaky, Mark’s book offers gentle steps back toward hope and light. As Christ followers unite around the truths of the Peace Prayer, we’ll see the movement of Jesus bring a glimpse of heaven to earth.
Mark weaves together his own ministerial and fatherly journey with the pastoral heart of St. Francis’s prayer. Like one working with the shards of a stained glass window, Mark situates the joys and struggles and everything in between from years of ministerial insight into a book that will shine brightly for anyone who reads it, but especially for Christians seeking to know the Lord’s will in their lives. As a Catholic priest, I gained insight from it and will recommend it wholeheartedly to others.
Dr. DeYmaz is widely recognized for his work in spaces of multiracial ministry and church economics. In his latest book, he utilizes the Peace Prayer to encourage effective Christian witness and ministry in an increasingly secular society. Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace is both inspirational and practical, showing us how to become more like Jesus and less like the world in ways that draw others to Christ. It shows us a path to true peacemaking.
Mark DeYmaz has written a timely book for anyone longing to follow Jesus more faithfully in a world of conflict. Rooted in the wisdom of the Prayer of St. Francis, a prayer I pray every day, this book masterfully guides us toward becoming people of peace. Mark invites us to love, offer hope, and bring joy to our neighborhoods, which are filled with hidden hate, despair, and quiet sadness. Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace will encourage your heart and challenge your priorities, pointing you toward the Spirit’s work of inner transformation that prompts reconciliation and justice in God’s good world.
Mark DeYmaz has written a book that brings theology down to the street level—where division, exhaustion, and cynicism too often reign. Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace isn’t sentimental spirituality; it’s a manual for people who want to practice the way of Jesus in a world that’s forgotten how he lived.
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace challenges the church to move beyond rhetoric and embody the reconciling love of Christ in a world yearning for care. DeYmaz calls us to follow Jesus into the hard work of reconciliation, reminding us that lasting peace is born not of avoidance but of love expressed through daily grace.
As a first-generation immigrant and minister, I’ve walked the tightrope between cultures and faith, and I know how desperately our world needs peacemakers who don’t just talk about peace but also live it. With depth, humility, and clarity, Dr. Mark DeYmaz invites us to become living conduits of God’s love for all, seeing and valuing others through his lens.
If you’re a Christian ready to live boldly for Christ in a world that often rejects him, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace is a must-read. This book is a powerful call to be Christlike in the face of hostility, to embody the hope the world desperately needs that is too often misrepresented by Christians. It challenges believers to become credible witnesses to the gospel, reflecting the beauty of the greatest love story ever told. Let the world see Jesus through our good works.
In Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace, Mark draws our hearts to remember the power of peace—peace as a sign and wonder and as evidence of a mature faith—so that our witness of love might stand as a prophetic contrast amid the prevailing narratives of hostility. When alienation and contempt seem the easier paths, the vocation of the peacemaker summons us to the transcendent way of Christ—a way not conformed to this world. In such faithful embodiment, the hope of the gospel finds its most compelling expression.
Christians are uniquely called to follow the way of Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Yet in our contentious world, peacemaking often seems more like an elusive goal than an attainable reality. In Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace, Mark DeYmaz guides us to a path he also walks, moving beyond words to do the hard and sacrificial work of making peace. I pray heaven is pleased with the glorious sound that flows from hands and hearts yielded as instruments of peace.
Even with its challenge about sin, the gospel is ultimately about an invitation to connect with God and the hope that relationship brings to life. That means our engagement must be inviting, not just challenging. Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace is a powerful reminder that how we engage is as important—if not more so—than seeking to be right. This book aims at the heart through a prayer for being peaceful yet true. Biblical engagement must be true and yet reflect the heart of God to reach those who need him. In an era when this balance is often missing, this book is a godsend. In short, tone matters because posture is as important as position.
This book is different from Mark’s previous works. This is not Mark the leader speaking to other church leaders. It is Mark the pastor speaking to laity and clergy alike about what it means to be people who make peace and are an effective witness in our day. Mark does not merely rely on his own wisdom. He uses the famous Prayer of St. Francis to guide us into and out of many of the anxieties, fears, and doubts of the present moment, showing how Jesus is still the solution to what ails our broken world.
- Title: Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Becoming More like Jesus Through the Prayer of St. Francis
- Author: Mark DeYmaz
- Publisher: NavPress
- Print Publication Date: 2026
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798898020194, 9798898020170
- Resource ID: LLS:9798898020194
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-10-23T02:41:33Z