I remember driving one day a few months after that and calling my mom. I said “mom, that’s it, I am supposed to do something with food” but my husband was not in agreement, I even looked at a specific place, got a vision, but just laid it down. We even went to a conference in July, where a minister said some of you are called to do 2 things and you need to come up here so I can pray for you and I knew in my heart that was me, but I said Lord I can’t go up there, b/c Devin is not in agreement. This was a scenario that had been played out in my heart over 18 years, because in the beginning, I would walk our downtown area and visualize a little food shop. Again the next my pastor’s held their conference and I was again given the same task and again the pressure was on, even more so because one the ministers was a well-known restaurateurs in the Florida area! I had to redo the menu, I even said “I am just serving I don’t own a restaurant! That was a very stressful time, my husband and I had made two very bad financial decisions back in 2006 and it almost completely broke us, we literally lived day to day for 8 ½ years. And we were worn out. God has always been so gracious to us and sustained us and made a way of escape for us, but this was a breaking point after the conference.

I began really questioning the Lord, seeking Him for answers, “why Lord why are we still living like this, what adjustments do we make, what do we do” We tried selling our house for 5 years and 3 deals fell through. Around the middle of august I started taking steps to find a job. I don’t have a college education, just 7 years college experience and a ministerial certificate. I applied for every job I felt I could do, but It didn’t’ seem right in my heart. I even told the Lord, look I got 2 things in my house, 1. My voice and aint nobody paying me to preach and 2. My hands I can cook. Then….on the morning of September 23, 2014, I sat down with the Lord, like I do most every morning with my coffee and bible, the kids were at school and my husband was at work. I felt in my heart I needed to go back and read the passages that I heard that minister speak 26 years ago. So I looked it up, you see, numbers aren’t my strongest suit, so I would always go now, where are those passages I know they are in Kings, but where. I found them, but the first passage was in 1st Kings 17 and the 2nd was in 2nd Kings. 4 as I read those passages, I really began to feel the presence of the Lord, and In my heart I heard Him say read them again, so I did. Then The Lord spoke to my heart and said “Jodie you have fed the priests for years, now it’s time to feed your family” and I sat there stunned. He then began to give me confirmation after confirmation that this was HIS PLAN. He then said pay attention to the numbers…1st kings 17—my birthday is January 17, Elijah, was first—My name has a J—these were all simple memory techniques to help me remember the passages in order, because one day I would be ministering on them and I wouldn’t get them confused. As I sat there, I sent out 4 texts to some friends and said what do you think if I started cooking healthy clean meals for families.

One was my cousin who is a personal trainer, Dustin Divelbiss and she said that would be great and to come introduce my services to her boot camp classes. Word spread quickly, I had about 20 people want meals, thankfully I have a great kitchen to work out of and on the first day I started at 8 am and didn’t finish until 2 am and our first day of paid sales was October 7, 2014 one the first day (1) we had 17 paid sales, (it was about $600)…another confirmation. The business has quickly grown, last week we broke another record, 136 paid meals (8x17=136) our gross sales were $4200, I now have 3 part time employees, we are in the process of opening up our building. We have over 400 customers now in our data base. At the beginning of every work day, we pray the anointing over each meal, we pray that the presence of God permeates their spirit soul and body that it ministers health to their physical body and their heart. Every week I am amazed to the point of tears at how gracious God has been to us and to truly watch how when we do His word, ,it works. You see every single person has a talent, gift and ability in their own hands to produce an income, I can prove it out in so many passages now. The name of our business is Geaux Fresh, sitting in service a few months ago the Lord spoke to my heart again and said what is the first name in your business, I said “Geaux” and He said that’s exactly what you are going to do….Mark 16:15…..right after that I went to Jamaica and had the privilege of sharing part of this testimony……that’s my story…..and it’s not done….what’s yours.