Genesis 12–17; Abraham 1–2 Part 1 • Dr. Jenae Nelson • Feb. 16-22 • Come, Follow Me

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What if becoming who God is calling you to be requires leaving the survival version of yourself, not just a physical location? Dr. Jenae Nelson explores Abraham’s journey as a path toward covenant identity, healing from trauma, and claiming priesthood power, weaving scripture with her own story of loss, faith, and courageous belonging. SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS English: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT208EN French: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT208FR German: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT208DE Portug...

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0:00.0	Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.
0:04.0	With finding out that I had a different dad, I ended up having to get a new birth certificate
0:09.2	because my birth certificate had the wrong dad on it.
0:13.6	I got a new name.
0:15.1	I changed my last name.
0:16.3	I inherited the name Brunson.
0:18.7	Also, I got new family. My dad had six children that I never met. It was now,
0:25.2	I knew these were now my siblings, and I inherited this new family.
0:32.9	Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host. I'm here with John, by the way, who is a great follower of righteousness.
0:45.0	John, I was reading Abraham Chapter 1. Abraham says he was hoping to be a greater follower of righteousness, and I thought, that's John, by the way. He's trying to be more like John, by the way. I'm a couple of hundred miles behind. I'm not tailgating righteousness. And I thought, that's John, by the way. He's trying to be more like John, by the way. I'm a couple of hundred miles behind. I'm not tailgating righteousness, but I'm trying to follow it. Yeah, thanks for that. It's up there quite a way. That's way up there. John, we are blessed to have Dr. Jeney Nelson back with us. Janay, welcome back to follow him. it's been a couple of years. Yeah, I'm so excited to be back today.
1:11.3	Yeah, we love having you. I've been looking forward to this.
1:17.4	I've had you on the schedule for quite a while. John, we are in Genesis 12 through 17, Abraham 1 and 2.
1:24.5	Abraham is a much bigger deal than I thought. When I first started reading the Bible,
1:30.1	especially the book of Genesis, I thought, oh, it's the story of Adam and Eve. It really isn't.
1:34.3	This is the story of Abraham. That's what I've been thinking, because I know you always ask
1:38.5	me, what are you looking forward to? In the past, what would you say? Decade, we've just been
1:42.8	talking a lot more about covenants, about Abraham.
1:45.8	Hank has a brilliant presentation about Abraham and who we are in the Abrahamic covenant,
1:51.0	greater covenant consciousness, which I'm grateful for and excited to talk about it today.
1:56.8	Yeah, here's this name that comes up all the time throughout scripture, even in the temple.
2:01.8	Janae, what are we going to do today? Are we going to get to know Abraham?
2:04.9	Yes, we are. Because I'm a developmental psychologist, I'm really excited to look at his story as a
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