Covenant Over Trauma

What if the friendship between Jonathan and David was never about sentimentality, but about survival, healing, and choice?

In this teaching, Dr. Delisa Rodgers offers a trauma-informed, prophetic reframing of one of the Bible’s most misunderstood relationships. Jonathan was raised in the house of Saul, a leader shaped by fear, control, and unresolved rejection. David was anointed for a future that threatened everything Saul tried to preserve. Yet instead of forming a trauma bond rooted in fear or rebellion, Jonathan chose covenant.

This lesson explores how God uses covenant relationships to interrupt generational toxicity, how honoring parents does not require inheriting their wounds, and how healing allows us to bless what could replace us instead of fighting it. Through Hebraic insight, prophetic discernment, and practical reflection, this episode challenges listeners to examine whether their relationships are built on shared pain or shared purpose.

If you have ever wrestled with the fear of becoming like what wounded you, or questioned whether healthy, God-aligned relationships are possible after toxic beginnings, this lesson is for you.

Trauma bonds cling.

Covenant bonds release.

And sometimes the most prophetic declaration you can make is this: It stops with me.