YOU MUST RECEIVE & BELIEVE TO BECOME! – Apostle Yvan CASTANOU

You must receive and believe to become

You see, heaven doesn’t cry because you’re sick. Heaven doesn’t groan because you’re unemployed or feeling lonely. Heaven isn’t saddened by your failure or your singleness. No. But let me tell you what makes heaven weep: it’s those sheep without a shepherd. That’s what grieves the heart of God. I’m talking about that cry in Mark 6:34 where Jesus, seeing the crowd, was moved with compassion because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Moved. Shaken. Not because they were hungry or sleeping outside, but because they had no one to lead them.

So understand why your life changes the moment God connects you to a divinely appointed shepherd. It’s not a matter of charisma, it’s a heavenly mission. And you see, when He saw those sheep, Jesus didn’t feed them first—He taught them. Because a true shepherd teaches you, feeds you, shapes you with the Word. Teaching is the proof that you are truly under the covering of an authentic shepherd.

Are you grateful?

So ask yourself a real question: Are you grateful for those God has placed in your life to guide you? When you shout praises, praise like someone who’s received life because of the voice God placed along their path! Because you become what you hear. You want to become? Then you must receive. And when you receive the Word—I’m talking about a real download, a divine deposit—then you begin to become.

It is written in John 1:12-13: Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the power to become children of God.

You see, this is not a slogan, it’s a spiritual activation. There is an infused power that transforms an ordinary man into a visible expression of God on earth. But it always starts with “receiving” and “believing.”

Keep receiving

You might be struggling. You might be in crisis. But as long as you keep receiving, you are becoming. You are in the hands of the potter. He’s shaping you. And as long as you allow yourself to be exposed to the Word, you cannot remain the same. It’s just a matter of time. The Word works even when you feel nothing. It is alive, it is active, it is a hammer, it is fire, it is water, it is light. Even if you hear nothing, even if you feel nothing, keep receiving!

Because the only way for you not to become what you hear is to stop the spiritual reception. That’s why the Enemy wants to cut your connection. He’s not first trying to cut you off from your friends—he wants to cut you off from the Word.

Stay where the Word is

He wants to distract you, to interrupt the download flow. But you, stay there. Keep listening. Keep feeding yourself. You know, sometimes we wait for a miracle prayer. But what you’re living through is not a matter of a one-time prayer. It’s a matter of constant exposure to the Word. God placed you in a fire environment. And that fire will consume everything not planted by Him.

Are you fighting pornography? Rejection? Chronic bitterness? Childhood wounds? Keep receiving! Stay seated where the Word is. Even when you don’t understand, stay there. Even when you want to run, stay seated. Why? Because you are in a transformation process.

You can still change

Some people live with septic pits of bitterness in their soul. You grew up in an environment of rejection; you’re carrying unprocessed family burdens. You accumulate offenses, traumas, and if none of it is released, it’ll end up overflowing into your behavior, your decisions, your health.

But you, who are reading these words, bless God that you’re still standing enough to listen. You’re not hardened yet. You can still change. Don’t believe your life is over or that you’re done just because you’ve been struggling for 15, 20, or 30 years. I’m telling you—you’re still moldable. Your heart is still reachable. Now is the time to receive. Now is the time to believe.

Don’t miss the season

If you don’t heal now, if you don’t forgive now, if you don’t expose your heart now, later it’ll be too hard. You’ll be bitter, closed off, sour like those 60-year-olds untouched by anything. Don’t miss this season where God is visiting you with His Word. There is a season to become. And that season is now. Yes, now.

You’re suffering? Keep believing. You’re failing? Keep receiving. As long as you stay connected to the spiritual download platform, the Word will eventually transform you. It will extract the waste, fill your cup, activate the spiritual pregnancy that will give birth to your future.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 says that you don’t know how the bones are formed in a pregnant woman’s womb, nor will you understand the work God is doing in you.

This is a hidden work. It’s the invisible seed. It’s the Word that was deposited in you. And whether you feel it or not, it’s growing. You are pregnant with destiny. You’re already in the birthing process. You just need to not have a spiritual miscarriage. Don’t lose that Word. Don’t forget it. Don’t suffocate it. Meditate on it. Repeat it. Confess it. Speak it. Breathe it!

Just believe

Faith doesn’t require you to understand how it will happen. It only asks that you believe. Did God tell you that you would live a glorious life? Don’t ask, “How will this happen?”

The angel answered Mary in Luke 1: The Holy Spirit will come upon you… and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

You may not see a thing. You may feel nothing. But the process, it won’t stop. The light will break forth. The fire will purify. The sun of righteousness will rise upon you.

Malachi 4 gives you this promise: A day is coming, burning like a furnace…

That day is a season of purification, of realignment, of divine activation. It’s not just to judge the wicked. It’s also to make His children shine.

God is searching…

All shackles, all strongholds, all voices that ruled your heart are beginning to break under the fire of the sun of righteousness. There is a fire descending upon your generation. A supernatural reset. A heart transplant. Because God is searching. He’s looking for a generation with pure hearts. He’s looking for Davids. And He still says today:

I have found… a man after My own heart.

Can this be said of you? Are you that young man, that young woman for whom God will say:

I have found someone who will carry out all My will

So, right now, receive the transfer. Receive this supernatural deposit. This is not just a message. It’s a heart transplant. God is implanting in you His fire, His thirst, His purity, His burning passion.

You are entering a season where your life will no longer be governed by voices of defeat, fear, rejection. You will face problems, but with thoughts fixed on Christ. You’ll walk through the valley of the shadow of death with no fear. Why? Because you see the invisible. You know the One who is with you is stronger than those against you. Heaven has clothed you. The sun has risen.

And when you understand this, you know it’s no longer time to lament. You know it’s no longer time to complain. You know that the sun heating you up is burning everything that was fighting you! You are entering a new dimension.

Declare it

I am a warehouse of divine seeds. Every Word deposited in me is a pregnancy I will carry to birth. I will see light, splendor, and the beauty of God come out of me. Not at 60, not at 50. But now. Because the future of my life has already begun.

Let’s pray together

Father, I give You thanks. I thank You for depositing in me this living Word. Today, I don’t want to just hear— I want to receive. I want to believe. And I declare that I will become what You planned. I refuse to abort what You have deposited in me. I refuse to give up. I refuse to grow discouraged. I expose myself to Your Word again and again. I am becoming what I hear. I carry a seed of glory within me. And I declare it will bear fruit — in Jesus’ name. Amen.

🙏 If you haven’t yet given your life to Jesus, say this prayer with me:

Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I need You. I believe that You died for my sins and that You rose again. Today, I accept You as my Lord and Savior. Come live in me, transform my life, and give me Your heart. I receive Your life and Your Spirit. Let Your plan take shape in me. Amen.

At the heart of the Bible

  • John 1:12-13 – To those who received Him, He gave the power to become.
  • Mark 6:34 – Moved with compassion, for they were like sheep without a shepherd.
  • Joshua 1:8 – Let this Book of the Law not depart from your mouth…
  • Isaiah 55:11 – My Word does not return to Me empty.
  • Ecclesiastes 11:5 – You will not understand the work God is doing in you.
  • Luke 1 – The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
  • Malachi 4 – A day is coming, burning like a furnace…

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