There are moments in the life of believers that should not be rushed.
These are moments that hold great weight far beyond what you can imagine.

You see, a farmer does not plant in hard, unbroken or compacted clay ground and expect the crop to flourish. Before the seed is planted, the soil has to be carefully prepared, and this preparation greatly affects the harvest. The preparation would determine the outcome of the seed.

Similarly for the believer. There are seasons that God ordain for a time of becoming, a time to be transformed and shaped right.
A time to be aligned. A season where God is after your heart, and in such a season, one of the best things you can do is to get back to a place where you discern his words and will for you.

This is one of those seasons.

As you prepare for Leaps and Bounds 2026, there is a posture your heart should take.
This week, as you fully consecrate yourself, it is also important that you are quite honest with yourself too. This is a time to ask yourself truly, “Where is my heart right now?”
What has got my attention?
And if your answer in any way is anything other than God, then you know there’s a great need to align yourself again.

Perhaps you’ve been too casual about the things of God for a while, too casual about prayer, about the word, even down to your encounters with God.
You need to tell yourself that it’s enough!
You need to tell yourself that you can’t be the one who would come for a powerful meeting, receive and after a few days, the flames fade, the hunger dies, and you just go back to where you were, putting God in the corner of your heart where you previously left Him.

Revelation 3:15-16 says
New King James Version
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

These were the words of Jesus to the church in Laodicea recorded in the Book of Revelation through John.
To really understand what Jesus was saying here, you need to understand the city He was speaking to.

Laodicea did not have its own natural water supply. Water was brought in from nearby cities through aqueducts. One nearby city had hot springs, another had cold mountain water. But by the time the water travelled the long distance to Laodicea, it arrived lukewarm and unpleasant, the kind of water that could make a person nauseous.

So when Jesus spoke about being lukewarm, the people immediately understood what He meant.

And Jesus was confronting a spiritual condition in that church. They had become comfortable, casual, and self-sufficient in their walk with God. They believed they were fine spiritually, but their hearts had drifted into a place of complacency.
And that warning still speaks to believers today.

Many of us cannot take tea or coffee that is not hot, and neither can we take a soft drink or juice that isn’t cold. Some of us would literally spit it out.
Lukewarmness is not normal.
It is a position that God takes seriously, and it is a position you cannot afford to enter or remain in during this season.

This season is your opportunity to recalibrate. A time to put your father at the centre of your heart again.

Take a moment to genuinely reflect.
Since the year began, where have you slipped? Where have you lost your footing? Are there areas of your life, like your devotion, your ministry, your relationships, your career, your education, your health, that you have been running on your own strength, quietly, without bringing them to God?
Proverbs 3:5-6 reminds you:
New King James Version
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

You need to understand that God hasn’t lost sight of where you need to be.
He hasn’t lost sight of how far and how well you need to go.
He hasn’t forgotten a single word He has spoken over your life or the future He has promised you.
But what you need to ask yourself genuinely is if your heart is still with him.
See this season of consecration as a time to reset. Block out the noise of the world. Take your heart back to the One who loves you. Take your heart back to God.

Hosea 10:12
New King James Version
12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

He said, “Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD,”
That is what this week is about. Breaking up every hardened place in your heart.
Removing distractions.
Realigning your affection.

And this is very crucial because when God begins to give particular words and instructions, it is only the prepared ground (in this context, your heart) that will receive them rightly and produce the harvest.

Leaps and Bounds is not just an occasion.
It is not merely an event to attend or an atmosphere to just enjoy.
It is the gathering of saints, and when the saints gather, the supernatural becomes inevitable.

Come with a heart that is like a well-worked soil, so that when the seed of God’s word falls on it, it will flourish.
Two people can sit in the same meeting, hear the same word, and walk away with completely different outcomes, not because God was partial, but because receptiveness is everything. Heart posture is everything.
Determine in your heart right here and now that you will be that better person, you will attend this meeting with a receptive heart and leave a morphed man!

With this heart, here are some things you should expect that would be the outcome of this meeting for you:
‌Expect a hunger for the Word of God that does not fade when the meeting ends. A hunger that keeps drawing you back again and again to the Scriptures, because something within you refuses to remain spiritually shallow.

‌Expect a prayer life that moves from routine to something fervent and effectual: the kind James described when he said, “the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5:16b).

‌Expect a sharpened sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, the kind that causes you to hear clearly and obey quickly.

‌Expect a boldness to proclaim the good news like never before, because when God transforms a man, He never does it for that man alone; He does it so that others can encounter Him through that life.

Know that it is the will of God for you to grow in leaps and bounds: deeper in devotion, deeper in your walk with Him, deeper in the propagation of the gospel, taking greater steps in the things of God. And the interesting thing is that you can begin to see it in your life from today.

Let God be at the centre of your heart, because Leaps and Bounds is meant to launch you into the fullness of everything God has spoken over you.
Are you ready for it?

If you’re ready, pray with the prayer point below with all of your heart.

Prayer Point
Father, in this season, I retrace my steps and realign my heart to your words for me. Help me fix my focus on you, and from now on, you remain at the centre of my heart. I do not give in to distractions.