Lebanon (MNN) — Iran has said that Israel’s continued occupation of southern Lebanon would violate the tentative US-Iran deal. But it’s another bid for power, not peace.
Nuna with Triumphant Mercy Lebanon points out that Israel’s target in Lebanon is Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy group.
“They’re putting Lebanon inside that peace deal to keep Lebanon under Iran control,” Nuna says.
Hezbollah has itself been sabotaging recent peace efforts between Israel and Lebanon by continuing to fire missiles into northern Israel.
“Israel is saying, ‘Yes, we want peace. Yes, we want to deal with the Lebanese. The only problem we have is that Hezbollah is in the middle of this peace talk, and they are not allowing it.’ So they want to just get rid of the Hezbollah threat,” says Nuna.
“[Israel has] been hitting Beirut. They’ve been hitting other cities like Tyre, like Sidon, all these cities that were not hit before. So it is escalating in that sense, because Hezbollah is still retaliating.”
Lebanon has struggled for 50 years with war after war, says Nuna. Christians aren’t praying for another short-term fix. Instead, they’re praying for a real peace, one that will free Lebanon from the earthly and spiritual powers holding it hostage.
“If it takes war, so that we will have a lasting peace, let it be,” says Nuna. “We’re not against the war.”
(Photo courtesy of Triumphant Mercy)
While no one wants the death and destruction of war, at the same time, Lebanese believers have been praying for years for God to shake the nation. In 2019, a group of ministries set up a prayer tent in downtown Beirut, which turned into a prayer movement. They didn’t imagine God’s answers would look like they do today, “but now we’re looking back, and we’re saying God has indeed answered our prayers. And He’s still answering our prayers,” says Nuna.
As believers pray for transformation for Lebanon, they’re witnessing a startling revival.
“Every ministry now is seeing the same thing. We’re seeing Muslims coming to church, Muslims coming to NGOs, and just saying ‘We want to know more.’ Or they want to take a Bible, or something is happening in the spirit that we are seeing,” says Nuna.
“Many people come under the guise of humanitarian aid, but actually, what they want is to talk, because where they were in the South [of Lebanon], they had no witness. Some of them had no witness, some of them never heard about Jesus.”
Pray for true peace for Lebanon that addresses the root of conflict and power struggles. Pray that the gospel will be proclaimed to every person in every corner of the nation. God is at work! Keep watching and praying for this nation.
“[The Israel-Hezbollah-Iran situation] is now becoming a global problem, because the US is involved, China is involved, Turkey is involved, France is involved, of course Iran, Saudi Arabia, and everyone is involved. It’s become a whole world involvement in this small part of land,” Nuna says.
*This web article has been updated from its broadcast with one correction. It was 2019, not 2018, when ministries in Lebanon gathered to pray in line with Haggai 2:7 for God to shake the nation.
Header photo: Beirut House of Prayer gathering October 9-11, 2025 (Photo courtesy of Triumphant Mercy Lebanon)
