With Israel finally recognizing the Armenian Genocide and groundbreaking peace deals against all odds with Lebanon, we are living in extraordinary days. It reminds us that our confidence should be in prayer, not politics.
The President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, is a Christian and his wife is a woman of faith and prayer. After over 70 years of holding to the boycott of Israel instituted by the Arab League insisting on no peace with Israel, no recognition of the Jewish state, and even no negotiations, it seems like a curse afflicting Lebanon could finally be breaking.
As if in prophetic confirmation, a brother in the faith and partner on the Highway had been incarcerated in Beirut specifically on those charges — for breaking the boycott by connecting with Israelis — was finally freed and arrived home on the first day the new agreement was in place.
Catalyzed by that crisis a lot of prayer appealing to God to end that unjust law went up from around the world. The boycott had been an established fact for so long that many Lebanese believers hadn’t even thought of praying against it, but with the urgent situation of a brother in jail, the petitions piled up and the bars were shaken in the heavenlies. Now not only is the US hosting the talks between Israel and Lebanon, but they are putting boots on the ground, sending 5,000 marines to help disarm Hezbollah.
The Hezbollah terror group has led Lebanon into destruction since they took over in 2006, leaving it as a de facto non-functioning state. People have lost all their savings, the economy is broken, and there’s no medicine in the hospitals. As Hezbollah dragged the country into their agenda of resisting and destroying Israel, the currency has taken a nose dive and the country is in chaos. Now everybody’s finally had enough. The people are ready for change, and even peace with Israel.
It’s a miracle in many ways, and Lebanese believers are saying it’s a new day.
There has been tremendous damage not only to Hezbollah, but to the whole Iranian hegemony and their proxies in the Middle East. Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has also ordered pro-Iran militias to fully disarm or face legal action. Yet at the same time, we have watched the bewildering Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that few are able to understand cruelly whisking away the prospect of freedom for Iran seemed to at last be in sight.
Events in this region can be turned totally upside down and then right way up within days. We need to make sure our eyes are on God and His authority, not on human institutions.
There’s a Jewish prayer that says, “May He who makes peace in high places make peace for us.” The text is taken from Job 25:2 which says,
“Dominion and fear are with God; He makes peace in his high heaven.”
That’s where the real business is done.
Our faith should not be defined by a cause, however noble it may be. Our walk with the Lord is about surrender, devotion, and being love slaves for Him. From that place of our surrender and love, God works wonders.
At an Isaiah 19 Highway event in Armenia just two months after the Oct. 7 massacre, representatives of the body of Messiah in Israel repented on their knees to Armenian believers that the Israeli government had still not acknowledged the Armenian Genocide. What followed in that watershed moment was an outpouring of emotion, love, and tears.
That powerful outpouring opened hearts and overflowed to the rest of the conference. Israeli and Lebanese believers united in prayer and worship, embracing as brothers and sisters in the Lord. Christians who had been hardwired to resist Israel for the Palestinian cause suddenly surrendered and relinquished their antagonism toward the Jewish state.
When an Israeli Arab sister shared that Arab intercessors in Israel were having dreams, visions, and somebody from her group stood up saying, “You know what, I’m done with this whole thing of resist, resist, resist, resist.” Another announced they would not let their lives be defined by opposition to Israel any longer.
Every time there is this overstepping by Muslim extremists, it sends Muslims to a place where they’re ready to reconsider their allegiance to the majority faith in the Middle East, and it also sends Christians who feel like they have to be supportive of the cause out as well.
As Turkish leaders openly declare their intentions to reclaim Jerusalem and reestablish the Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire, Israel has evidently decided there is not much point in appeasing Erdogan any longer and has taken the long overdue step of recognizing the Armenian Genocide with a unilateral vote of 100-0 in the Knesset.
In response, Erdogan has denied that Turkey has been responsible for any genocide, massacres, oppression or colonialism, saying, “Throughout our thousands of years of glorious history, there has only been justice and compassion.” Instead he totally inverted reality and proceeded to paint Israel as an existential threat to the region:
“The genocidal, occupying, expansionist ideology called Zionism threatens not only me, not only our party, not only our alliance — it threatens everyone,” he declared. “When we struggle against Zionism, we are not waging this struggle for ourselves or for personal reasons. We are doing it for our own survival and for the survival of our nation.”
Yet like Lebanon, Turkey’s lira has also been nosediving, with the effect of the sanctions imposed by Trump in order to force the release of Andrew Brunson still hurting the economy.
God’s word remains true. Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed, as He promised Abraham in Genesis 12:3. Perhaps that’s what we are witnessing with the Abraham Accords.
The Isaiah 19 movement is a good cause, but if we don’t have the Holy Spirit and the love of God in our hearts, if we don’t love Jesus personally, passionately, and unreservedly, we won’t end up doing kingdom things — even if we have a great vision.
We need to keep our hope in prayer rather than politics, and reserve our passion for King not the cause. But as our prayers are focused on Him and His heavenly agenda, we can expect to see more miraculous things happening here on earth.
July 2026