E003: Birthing Destiny: What Happens When You Say Yes To The Call (Launch Series 3 of 4)

🚀 What happens when you say 'Yes' to the call? Dive into Episode 003 of the #LegacyShiftWithTrenaRatto Podcast, where we explore the journey of obedience, growth, and generational transformation. Don't miss out on this empowering conversation about building a legacy that lasts! 🎧✨

 

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Legacy Shift Podcast, where cycles are broken, destinies are birthed, and generations are built.
I'm your host, Trena Ratto, coach, strategist, and kingdom voice for bold men, women, and leaders ready to rise.
You weren't created to repeat dysfunction, but you were commissioned to disrupt it, to establish a legacy of healing, wholeness and generational transformation.

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This is a groundbreaking space of truth and transformation where revelation collides with conviction and you're launched into bold alignment with your kingdom assignment.
A place where comfort fades and legacy begins.
This isn't just a podcast, it's a movement.
A prophetic call of Kingdom reformers rising to take back territory for their families, their future, and their generation.

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Lean in, breathe deep.
The shift begins now.
Hello, welcome back! Today, episode three, What Happens When You Say Yes to the Call? This is about Birthing Destiny and I'm so excited to have you on today.
I wanna talk to the part of you, that knows you're made for more.

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The part that feels the tension, like something, oh my goodness, like something inside is shifting, stretching, being called to birth.
And if there's one core truth I want you to walk away with today is that once you break the old cycle, something divine begins to emerge.

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.33333333The real you! Purpose doesn't always look like a platform. 15 00:01:54,814.33333333 --> 00:01:58,144.33333333 And destiny doesn't always arrive with fanfare. 16 00:01:59,554.33333333 --> 00:02:12,689.33333333 What happens though is it begins in surrender, it moves through alignment, and it is preserved through a lifestyle of repentance and intimacy with Jesus. 17 00:02:15,194.33333333 --> 00:02:22,394.33333333 And then it leads to expansion, not just of what you do, but of who you become. 18 00:02:23,474.33333333 --> 00:02:32,234.33333333 So, let's talk about what it means to say, "yes," not to a job title, but to, becoming. 19 00:02:34,454.33333333 --> 00:02:38,504.33333333 Destiny often begins in disruption, not comfort. 20 00:02:39,704.33333333 --> 00:02:57,719.33333333 Oh, do I know this well? We often expect destiny to come as a "moment," don't we? Like this, BAM!!! Mountaintop encounter a lightning bolt, a promotion, a clear next step. 21 00:02:58,769.33333333 --> 00:03:06,119.33333333 But most of the time what I have found in, gosh, over three decades of walking with Jesus... 22 00:03:06,899.33333333 --> 00:03:18,659.33333333 destiny is birthed in the dark, and those of us who are mothers, know this, when it comes to conception. 23 00:03:19,949.33333333 --> 00:03:26,819.33333333 It starts in obscurity, in discomfort, in the in-between spaces. 24 00:03:27,539.33333333 --> 00:03:28,619.33333333 Think about this. 25 00:03:29,459.33333333 --> 00:03:31,349.33333333 Moses was in the wilderness. 26 00:03:32,189.33333333 --> 00:03:35,189.33333333 Esther was hidden in the palace. 27 00:03:35,969.33333333 --> 00:03:37,589.33333333 David was in the field. 28 00:03:38,609.33333333 --> 00:03:40,649.33333333 Mary was overshadowed. 29 00:03:41,669.33333333 --> 00:03:43,589.33333333 Jesus was in a manger. 30 00:03:45,119.33333333 --> 00:03:55,439.33333333 So see, the pattern is this, often before God uses you, He allows the fire of trials in your life. 31 00:03:56,489.33333333 --> 00:04:06,839.33333333 This is not to hurt you, it's to build you, it's to hone your character, and to see if you can be trusted with what He wants to do through you. 32 00:04:07,829.33333333 --> 00:04:16,449.33333333 He transforms you into the image of Christ's likeness and that forming rarely happens in convenience. 33 00:04:17,489.33333333 --> 00:04:22,769.33333333 I wish I could say differently, but that is true. 34 00:04:24,59.33333333 --> 00:04:25,859.33333333 This is your moment... 35 00:04:28,229.33333333 --> 00:04:36,809.33333333 to lean in and listen, to learn, and see what the Holy Spirit wants to reveal to you today. 36 00:04:38,369.33333333 --> 00:04:46,349.33333333 The initial signs of destiny often look like disruption, quite frankly. 37 00:04:48,29.33333333 --> 00:04:50,939.33333333 It might look like losing what felt secure. 38 00:04:53,219.33333333 --> 00:05:01,679.33333333 Or, outgrowing certain circles or people being removed from your life, either indefinitely or for a season. 39 00:05:03,779.33333333 --> 00:05:08,279.33333333 Maybe feeling restless or dissatisfied with business as usual. 40 00:05:10,79.33333333 --> 00:05:17,189.33333333 Doors closing, job changes, relocations happening, so that new ones can open. 41 00:05:18,329.33333333 --> 00:05:23,189.33333333 The stretching you feel now isn't failure. 42 00:05:23,654.33333333 --> 00:05:24,884.33333333 It's formation. 43 00:05:25,574.33333333 --> 00:05:36,117.11111005 Because God has promised to complete the work He's began in you, amen?! I want to share with you what it looked like for me to say, yes. 44 00:05:38,342.11111005 --> 00:05:50,397.11111005 So, here's a personal story: Many years ago, and I'm gonna say early two thousands, like maybe 2002. 45 00:05:51,897.11111005 --> 00:05:59,967.11111005 I received a prophetic word on being called to ministry, being called to actually pastor and prophesy. 46 00:06:03,43.59183673 --> 00:06:13,483.59183673 This was uncomfortable, frightening, because the fear of speaking and public attention, was not something I sought after. 47 00:06:13,483.59183673 --> 00:06:16,213.59183673 Is not something that is comfortable for me. 48 00:06:18,103.59183673 --> 00:06:22,213.59183673 I loathed public speaking as most society does. 49 00:06:22,213.59183673 --> 00:06:36,430.2585034 It's like the number one fear, right? But this began all those years back because God saw the future, Trena. 50 00:06:37,890.2585034 --> 00:06:41,325.2585034 He saw me, where I didn't see myself. 51 00:06:42,285.2585034 --> 00:07:05,735.2585034 And, at that time I was working in the church as an executive assistant, but I mean, seriously, our pastor would ask me to get up and even read like the happenings for the church for that week and I was like, absolutely not! No way! That is not something I'm going to do. 52 00:07:06,485.2585034 --> 00:07:08,345.2585034 I would not get up and speak. 53 00:07:08,705.2585034 --> 00:07:10,925.2585034 It really scared me that much. 54 00:07:11,315.2585034 --> 00:07:15,185.2585034 I was that insecure and uncomfortable with myself. 55 00:07:16,415.2585034 --> 00:07:32,855.2585034 However, in that time, God began mentoring me, not only under my senior pastor at my home church but along with a prophet and leader of another church in another city, a distance away. 56 00:07:33,785.2585034 --> 00:07:38,345.2585034 I had two mentors, two spiritual fathers that God was using at the same time. 57 00:07:38,705.2585034 --> 00:07:43,535.2585034 That came from different schools of thought, on many things. 58 00:07:43,565.2585034 --> 00:07:49,205.2585034 That came from different denominational ideologies, if you will. 59 00:07:50,15.2585034 --> 00:07:51,395.2585034 They both loved God. 60 00:07:51,845.2585034 --> 00:07:59,255.2585034 They both had different strengths and weaknesses and I was able to learn a lot of what to do and what not to do. 61 00:08:00,440.2585034 --> 00:08:26,810.2585034 So these schools, if you will, and spiritual fathers, began imparting in me many things and teaching me something very, very key, and missing in a lot of training with many that start their own ministries today, that of how to submit to authority, learning to be a student, learning to do the mundane, learning to serve. 62 00:08:28,990.2585034 --> 00:08:32,710.2585034 That was something that everyone needs to learn. 63 00:08:34,300.2585034 --> 00:08:42,250.2585034 And for me, especially, because I kind of bucked authority, and thought I had all the answers. 64 00:08:43,240.2585034 --> 00:08:46,930.2585034 So submission was a key thing that God needed to teach me. 65 00:08:47,519.80045245 --> 00:09:09,939.80045245 I began seeing unhealthy patterns in leadership and experiencing unrighteous behaviors that hurt me, like, personal digs that were very passive aggressive, but even to the point where my hours would be cut, my pay was being cut. 66 00:09:10,774.80045245 --> 00:09:21,514.80045245 Which created a lot of marital frustration because I came from the corporate world and if you know, working in ministry, isn't actually top dollar. 67 00:09:22,24.80045245 --> 00:09:44,759.80045245 So, having your pay cut was quite painful! Learning to trust God when all I wanted to do was run by staying the course though and seeking God's permission to leave, because He was telling me at the time, not yet, no matter how hard I cried on my drive home. 68 00:09:45,809.80045245 --> 00:09:53,219.80045245 But by my obedience and waiting for God's timing, everything aligned to my benefit. 69 00:09:54,209.80045245 --> 00:10:02,669.80045245 The senior pastor even said to me one time, "I have never seen God so fiercely protect someone, like He has with you." 70 00:10:04,394.80045245 --> 00:10:09,44.80045245 Wow! That really causes you to reflect and humble you. 71 00:10:10,664.80045245 --> 00:10:23,414.80045245 Just stepping out in pure obedience to a great fear I had of speaking, to be squeezed in hurtful situations, feeling unappreciated, even unvalued. 72 00:10:23,784.80045245 --> 00:10:29,34.80045245 I believed God, in spite of how I felt or how I saw myself. 73 00:10:30,24.80045245 --> 00:10:41,34.80045245 I had to learn to do things afraid, to surrender my will for His, and to trust Him with the outcome. 74 00:10:42,204.80045245 --> 00:10:52,379.80045245 And that was over 20 years ago! Maybe you have said yes, when it made no sense. 75 00:10:53,904.80045245 --> 00:10:57,774.80045245 Walked away from something that was working because God whispered, there's more. 76 00:10:59,844.80045245 --> 00:11:09,18.60665892 Maybe your yes, came after a season of breaking, when you had nothing left but surrender. 77 00:11:10,158.60665892 --> 00:11:12,708.60665892 Maybe your yes, was terrifying. 78 00:11:13,548.60665892 --> 00:11:18,288.60665892 But obedience unlocked something that your hustle never could. 79 00:11:19,998.60665892 --> 00:11:26,268.60665892 I want you to be honest about what it cost you, but also what it's birthing. 80 00:11:27,978.60665892 --> 00:11:31,458.60665892 Saying yes, is rarely, glamorous. 81 00:11:31,458.60665892 --> 00:11:35,943.60665892 It's often a holy unraveling long before we see the fruit of its intention. 82 00:11:38,639.60665892 --> 00:11:40,49.60665892 Birthing is messy. 83 00:11:41,579.60665892 --> 00:11:42,719.60665892 It's painful. 84 00:11:43,739.60665892 --> 00:12:01,79.60665892 It requires positioning, timing, support, but when the contractions hit, you need to know it's not time to panic because it means something new is trying to be born. 85 00:12:01,996.2932673 --> 00:12:09,16.2932673 Before every breakthrough resistance will rear its head. 86 00:12:09,676.2932673 --> 00:12:11,86.2932673 It will show up loud. 87 00:12:12,196.2932673 --> 00:12:13,396.2932673 So let's name it. 88 00:12:15,976.2932673 --> 00:12:21,736.2932673 Let's name when that fear approaches and it says, "what if I'm not enough." 89 00:12:23,356.2932673 --> 00:12:31,531.2932673 Or imposter syndrome for leaders, "Who am I? Who am I to lead, to speak, to build." 90 00:12:33,241.2932673 --> 00:12:42,241.2932673 Or spiritual warfare, where every old cycle tries to reassert itself when a new assignment is emerging. 91 00:12:42,871.2932673 --> 00:12:44,41.2932673 Let me encourage you. 92 00:12:44,701.2932673 --> 00:12:56,11.2932673 You're not crazy! You're called! That resistance, it's not a red light, it's a sign that your "yes" is dangerous to darkness. 93 00:12:57,631.2932673 --> 00:13:03,661.2932673 Heaven knows what you carry, but guess what? So does hell. 94 00:13:04,981.2932673 --> 00:13:06,61.2932673 Let me be clear. 95 00:13:06,631.2932673 --> 00:13:12,271.2932673 Your call isn't about spotlights and titles. 96 00:13:13,381.2932673 --> 00:13:14,971.2932673 It's about your surrender. 97 00:13:16,381.2932673 --> 00:13:18,271.2932673 God doesn't need your perfection. 98 00:13:19,906.2932673 --> 00:13:23,26.2932673 He needs your permission, your yes. 99 00:13:25,492.95993397 --> 00:13:33,672.95993397 I want to take a moment and just speak prophetically over you: I want you to know you are being called out of hiding. 100 00:13:34,942.95993397 --> 00:13:36,712.95993397 Called out of comfort. 101 00:13:37,132.95993397 --> 00:13:39,622.95993397 Called out of smallness. 102 00:13:41,182.95993397 --> 00:13:44,962.95993397 You're not breaking down, you are breaking through. 103 00:13:46,132.95993397 --> 00:13:47,602.95993397 Don't throw the towel in. 104 00:13:48,142.95993397 --> 00:13:55,672.95993397 Don't give up! When it feels like it's the 11th hour and you can't take one more contraction. 105 00:13:56,212.95993397 --> 00:14:08,242.95993397 PUSH! Keep pushing, keep believing, keep prophesying God's purposes over your life that they are, "yes and amen." 106 00:14:09,22.95993397 --> 00:14:11,542.95993397 Keep decreeing His truth. 107 00:14:13,942.95993397 --> 00:14:22,702.95993397 Allow the pain, allow the discomfort, to build in you something that will outlast the devil's schemes. 108 00:14:23,932.95993397 --> 00:14:29,752.95993397 Allow the hand of God to mold and shape you for what you are destined to birth. 109 00:14:30,412.95993397 --> 00:14:36,202.95993397 And don't be surprised when what He hands you looks different than what you expected. 110 00:14:37,897.95993397 --> 00:14:43,177.95993397 It often is bigger and greater than anything you had hoped for or could imagine. 111 00:14:44,707.95993397 --> 00:14:50,317.95993397 Won't the Father, do it? He surely knows what He created you for. 112 00:14:51,547.95993397 --> 00:14:53,227.95993397 So stay surrendered. 113 00:14:54,801.2932673 --> 00:14:58,971.2932673 Allow yourself to live a lifestyle of repentance. 114 00:14:59,871.2932673 --> 00:15:02,691.2932673 Let repentance always be on your tongue. 115 00:15:03,891.2932673 --> 00:15:20,61.2932673 For if God is for you, who can be against you?! I look forward to you joining me on next episode 004 of our Launch Series, "Building Generations, how to Cultivate a Legacy That Lasts." 116 00:15:20,331.2932673 --> 00:15:22,581.2932673 Until next time, keep shifting. 117 00:15:24,286.2932673 --> 00:15:27,226.2932673 Thanks for tuning in to this week's Legacy Shift. 118 00:15:27,676.2932673 --> 00:15:35,356.2932673 If today's episode ignited your spirit, shook your comfort or awakened your call, don't keep it quiet. 119 00:15:35,776.2932673 --> 00:15:41,266.2932673 Share the episode, subscribe, leave a review, and invite others into the movement. 120 00:15:41,926.2932673 --> 00:15:43,696.2932673 You weren't just meant to listen. 121 00:15:43,756.2932673 --> 00:15:44,926.2932673 You were meant to lead. 122 00:15:45,316.2932673 --> 00:15:53,146.2932673 To break generational chains, raise kingdom foundations, and build a legacy that echoes beyond your lifetime. 123 00:15:53,746.2932673 --> 00:15:58,186.2932673 This is your charge, rise, release and roar. 124 00:15:58,636.2932673 --> 00:16:06,226.2932673 Refuse passivity, walk in obedience and wage war for the generation's counting on your yes. 125 00:16:06,766.2932673 --> 00:16:10,846.2932673 Until next time, stay bold, stay surrendered, and keep shifting. 126 00:16:11,266.2932673 --> 00:16:13,156.2932673 Legacy starts now.