Agatha Engadu

Get up every morning and say, “Father, thank You that Your favor surrounds me like a shield. Thank You that I’m anointed, equipped, and empowered. That You’ve armed me with strength for every battle. That’s not just being positive, that’s feeding your faith. That’s feeding your hope. What you’re feeding is what’s growing.

It is dangerous to dishonor, attack or threaten a servant of God! Ahab and Jezebel found out. The evil words and threats they slung at Elijah came upon their own heads. The very same is about to happen as God arises to contend with your enemies. I celebrate your imminent victory! In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

PROPHETIC WORD - Good connections and sudden solutions are coming 🔥 God will connect you to the right people. On a day that seems like any other day, you will “happen” to be in the right place at the right time. You will meet someone you need and your life will change. Destiny will ensue. Blessing will result. Divine connections. Supernatural outcomes. In that moment, you will know God was with you all along, hearing your prayers, ordering your steps and arranging victorious outcomes! Welcome to a season of #DivineConnections and #SupernaturalOutcomes ! I declare the drought is over! Now you shall #AriseAndFlourish in Jesus’ name!

You have an assignment. There’s a calling on your life, something God has destined you to accomplish. He didn’t put you here to just take up space and hopefully make it through. He created you to leave your mark, to set a new standard for your family. He’s put greatness in you.

God didn’t bring you this far to leave you. He knows what’s come against you. He feels the pain. He collects your tears. This is not the end of your story. This is one chapter. You may have had to bury something along the way to where God is taking you. It wasn’t a surprise to Him. It didn’t cancel your destiny.

Incorporate the Gospel into the choices you make at work and in your social and political commitments, in order to give a voice to the voiceless, thereby spreading a culture of care. Make everything a gift to God and live everything as a mission that calls you to be friends in Christ and faithful companions for one another on the journey. #ApostolicJourney vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Jesus tells us today what He once said to Martha, Lazarus’s sister: “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 11:25-26).

Sometimes what we think is a bad break is really God protecting us. You may not understand what God is doing now, but one day you will understand. One day you’ll say, “I’m glad that door didn’t open. I’m glad that prayer didn’t get answered. I’m glad the delay happened."

A wave of great favor in the realm of finance is released over this time. That which was sent to destroy you, God will halt. That need which the devil hopes will bankrupt you, God will supply. In this time, you will enter in great victory and establishment. In Jesus’ name. Be ready, your season is changing! Financial shifts are coming for many of God’s people. This will result in debt eradication, financial restructures, monetary windfalls and multiplication, business growth and favor in real estate, inheritance, and other lucrative endeavors. May God be glorified. As many are extremely blessed. In the mighty name of Jesus. #YourSeasonIsChanging Daniel 2:21 #DebtFree Deuteronomy 15:6 #ItsMeantToBe Deuteronomy 28:1-2 #GodHasAPlan Jeremiah 29:12 #ItsGonnaHappen Isaiah 55:11 #HouseOfGlory Psalm 122:1

A small Lenten reflection about joy. The other day a young friend said something to me that I have not stopped thinking about. As we spoke about the Lenten season and the kinds of things people often choose during this time, he said very simply that for Lent he was choosing joy. The words stayed with me because they were not the kind of answer one usually expects to hear during this season. Lent is often spoken of in the language of sacrifice and restraint. People talk about what they are giving up, what they are setting aside, and the disciplines they are trying to keep for the forty days. We were watching a beautiful cultural show where dances from different parts of the country were being performed. One dance followed another, each carrying its own rhythm and story, and as I sat there reflecting on what he had said, I began to notice something quietly present throughout the evening. There was joy all around us. It appeared in the laughter, in the sharing between friends, and in the simple delight of watching culture come alive through music and movement. As the performances came to an end, the audience was invited to dance, and what happened next brought his words back to me with new clarity. He stepped onto the floor and danced with such open and genuine joy that it blessed my heart to watch. It was not the kind of joy that demands attention or performs for others. It was simply the freedom of someone fully present in the moment, receiving the life that was unfolding around him. The longer I reflected on it, the more I began to feel that perhaps he had understood something many of us quietly miss about this season. Lent is not only about what we are laying down. It is also about what, by the grace of God, we are making room to grow within us. In our effort to become more disciplined, more serious, and more attentive to our spiritual lives, it is easy to forget that the work of grace does not only produce restraint. It also produces freedom. It loosens what has become tight within us and gently returns the heart to a deeper kind of life. Perhaps that is why his words have remained with me. To choose joy during Lent is not to escape the work of the season. It may, in fact, be one of the quiet signs that grace is already at work, teaching the heart not only how to let go, but also how to live. Lent has been revealing the human heart to me in small and unexpected ways this year. I will share a few more of these stories in the days ahead.

The Church is a great sign of hope for our times, traversed by so many conflicts and wars. We are a people in which women and men of different nationalities, languages, and cultures live together in faith. It is a sign placed in the very heart of humanity, offering a reminder and prophecy of the unity and peace to which God the Father calls all His children. #GeneralAudience

Nothing prepared me for the grace I experienced at Mass today. It came quietly, in a moment I almost missed. I walked in with my husband the way we always do, with the quiet calm that comes from entering into God’s presence, the same calm that settles over me each time I enter a church. I knew it was International Women’s Day, but the day had not fully settled in my mind. Then the priest began his sermon, and something in his words about women made me suddenly more alert and attentive. Until that moment it had been an ordinary Sunday morning, the familiar rhythm of Mass unfolding as it often does, with families settling into the pews, children shifting quietly beside their parents, and the gentle murmur of greetings fading as the mass began. As the Mass continued, I found myself listening attentively while also becoming more aware of the people around me. My eyes moved slowly across the congregation, and almost without realizing it my attention kept returning to the women seated throughout the church. They were present in every corner of the room, woven naturally into the gathering in ways that felt ordinary at first and yet became more meaningful the longer I allowed myself to notice them. There were young women who still seemed to be discovering the shape of their lives, mothers with children leaning against them while balancing prayer with the quiet vigilance that motherhood requires, and older women whose calm presence carried the quiet dignity that often comes with years lived faithfully through seasons of both joy and difficulty. Some women sat beside friends and exchanged warm greetings before the Mass began, while others slipped quietly into their seats and bowed their heads in prayer without drawing attention to themselves. Most of us did not know one another, yet the longer I sat there observing the congregation, the more it began to feel as though the room was filled with stories that remained mostly hidden from view. Every woman in that church carried a life that the rest of us could not fully see, a life shaped by responsibilities, sacrifices, disappointments, resilience, hope, and perseverance. Toward the end of the mass the priest invited the women to stand so that he could offer a special blessing. As we rose to our feet across the church, something remarkable happened. Standing there among women of different ages and walks of life, I felt what can only be described as a sudden gush of strength moving through the room, as though the blessing was not only spoken over us but shared among us. As I sat down again and reflected on what I had just witnessed, a quiet realization settled gently in my mind. If we could truly hear the full story of every woman seated in that church, we would likely leave that place with a deeper understanding of how much quiet courage moves through the ordinary spaces of our lives. On this International Women’s Day, I left church with renewed admiration for the strength women carry every day. To every woman quietly carrying life, faith, family, work, hope, and perseverance, may you have a blessed International Women’s Day.

You can’t explain it; it doesn’t make sense. It’s the blessing of God on your life. Here’s the good news: you’re not waiting to be blessed, hoping to one day get this blessing. You are already blessed.

Composed of men and women, the Church is divine. Even in our littleness and limitations, we can always serve as instruments in God’s hands to build up His Church. #GeneralAudience

Every path towards conversion begins when we allow the Word of God to touch our hearts and welcome it with a docile spirit. The Lenten journey is a welcome opportunity to heed the voice of the Lord and renew our commitment to follow Christ. #Lent

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

God is saying, “Throw that net out one more time.” Start believing again, start dreaming again, start taking steps of faith. You don’t know what God is about to do. The reason it hasn’t happened yet is because it’s bigger than you think.

Your emotions are either controlled by your circumstances or by your character. You get to choose. Nobody can take your joy. They can only try to bait you into giving it to them. If you fall into that trap, the enemy will control your life. Sure, there will be bad moments. But recognize what it is: just a moment. You have the power to let it be just a moment. You can dismiss it. Let it go.

THIS WEEK… you will REST in the promises of God and be BLESSED by the PROVISIONS of God. Great peace comes upon you now, as you know God has planned and prepared great things for you — and those things are approaching even now! 1 Corinthians 2:9 You will have no lack this week—absolutely none. In Jesus’ name. What you need will show up right on time. The provisions of God will flow organically and abundantly! In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Say aloud: I will want for nothing! My God provides! #SeasonsInThePasture #Blessed #ItsGonnaHappen