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You Have to Hear Food Network Star’s Amazing Testimony: ‘Still Get Choked Up’

You Have to Hear Food Network Star’s Amazing Testimony: ‘Still Get Choked Up’

By Movieguide® Contributor

Chef Aarti Sequeira is opening up about her testimony, as well as how she shares her faith through food. 

“After we got married, my husband and I started going to church, and that was when I really heard the gospel properly for the first time, because I did not understand this concept of grace,” she said on an episode of Kirk Cameron’s TAKEAWAYS. “I did not understand why Jesus had to die. I didn’t understand what it had to do with me. I didn’t get it. And then, there was one day I was at a vineyard, so there was a lot of worship, and I was sitting near the front because I’m a good student.”

Sequeira continued, “I love to sing, and something in me was like…I closed my eyes and I bowed my head and I felt — I saw a set of eyes, and they were amber and fiery but loving and kind and compassionate, and I felt two hands. It felt like a weight on my shoulders, and it was like there was a man standing in front of me with his hands on my shoulders looking deep into my eyes, going, ‘I know everything about you, and I still love you. I see you, head to toe, and I love you.’ And that was it for me.”

“I still get choked up about it because who am I for Him to see me and know me and love me?” she concluded. 

Sequeira rose to fame after winning the sixth season of FOOD NETWORK STAR and has since hosted her own cooking shows, written cookbooks and competed on shows like CHOPPED ALL-STARS and GUY’S GROCERY GAMES. 

She often speaks about the connection she finds between cooking and her relationship with God. 

“Jesus specifically used food so often in breaking bread, so often to teach people about Himself and about the kingdom and to reveal things to people, and so I believe that every time we break bread with people, we’re touching that a little bit,” she explained. 

In a recent Instagram post, Sequeira wrote of her latest cookbook, “Unwind,” “Writing this cookbook showed me that if I need Jesus in the kitchen when I’m at my hangriest, I need Him everywhere!”

“There’s a lot of power in just taking a second before you cook to ask, what am I walking in here with? What do I need in order to deal with all this baggage?!” she continued. “That’s why every devotion in my cookbook starts with, ‘When you need…’. And over and over and over, my husband and I came to the same conclusion: The answer is always embodied in the person and power of Jesus.”

In a conversation with “Jesus Calling,” Sequeira shared, “I feel so, so grateful that I have this filter of Jesus that I look at the whole world. I look at every person through it, and I just have so much compassion for people because of that.”

Movieguide® previously reported on Sequeira’s thoughts on the relationship between food and faith:

Cook and author Aarti Sequeira recently spoke about how she connects with God in the kitchen. 

“I think sometimes we overlook the fact that God is a creator,” she said during a conversation on the “Revelation Wellness” podcast. “We are children of a maker, of an artist, and so we have that in us, and so it comes out in different ways. 

Sequeira continued, “For me, it comes out in the kitchen. I think because all of us have to — or, get to — go in the kitchen…we then get to join in that act of creation.”


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