I’m going to start with the early years of my life, as a child our family didn’t know Jesus, he obviously knew us, but we just didn’t know him, I was brought up in a wild family, my dad being a Romany gypsy, life was always so colourful never a dull moment in our house, we didn’t need to watch EastEnders we had it happening in our own home.
But God gave me the gift of dance, a place I could lose myself and find freedom and express myself, something I was good at it, I didn’t feel good at much else I had too much other stuff going on in life.
Mum and dad took me to competitions all over the country, and abroad, I won hundreds of trophies, dance was my everything. I wasn’t really interested in much else especially school I used to mess around quite a lot and get detention when I wasn’t skiving.
Then at the young age of 16, almost 17, I met the man who would later become my husband, he was much older, 26, but I was looking for that knight in shining armor to come and whisk me off my feet, girls you know what I mean, but I didn’t find him, to cut a long story short, the relationship ended after 15 years of difficulty, I now had a beautiful daughter who was born with downs syndrome and twins boys, a single mum, I was quite broken inside, so much had happened throughout the whole of my life, I was insecure rejected, fearful and very lost.
Until the day I did meet my knight in shining armor, his name was Jesus, I got saved in 2003, the last place I had looked, I had been searching in everything else but found no answer, drink drugs, and rock and roll, relationships, the new age, even shopping, I tried it all.
When I found Jesus, I could not keep him to myself, so I started telling everyone everywhere I went about this amazing Jesus I had met, my mum thought I had gone mad, and my dad he called me the Holy Joly. There had never been a Holy Joly in our family, I was the first. Dad passed away a few years ago, and I had the pleasure of leading him to the Lord, so he became a Holy Joly haha.
Since then I’ve been on this amazing journey with Jesus he’s been building and restoring me, showing me things he put in me before time began which were always there just hidden under the rubble of my life, when I came into the church I was so blessed to sit under the ministry of David and Larna Martin, our amazing leaders of Christian creative academy, dancing alongside Larna and little Hannah, I taught Hannah and Luke in children’s church.
After David and Larna moved to London I took over the dance and creative arts in the church and led that for many years, prophetic dance, banners, I loved worshipping the Lord through dance, I went on to do a degree in dance and Theatre arts at Uni, and have taught dance, drama, art, and Zumba for many years, I specialize in teaching dance and creative arts working with adults with learning needs, which is so rewarding.
God has continued to add new strings to my bow, I started writing poetry, just as an expression to get out all that was inside, the brokenness, poetry was a healing process as I would pour out my heart and he would answer me through poetry, I had never seen myself as a writer or an artist, but God showed me differently.
I had a bad experience at school in art class which led me to believe I’m no good at art. But I started dabbling with art and jewellery making, and other creative expressions, I now have a business called LouiseMarie-Expressions.
The most recent thing I have been doing is preaching and sharing my story, as I love to talk probably too much, I preach mainly to unbelievers as outreach as part of my church online. I love sharing the keys to overcoming and the love and restoration the Lord has been doing, I love to say look what the Lord has done. I’ve led evangelism teams on the streets, as I love to share Jesus and how amazing he is, He took this broken girl and put her back together and is now using me to restore others, Isn’t he amazing! all glory to him he made me who I am I can do nothing without him, I could write so much more but maybe for another time.
Submitted by: Louise Marie Jones
Louise Marie Jones is a multifaceted creative who loves the Lord, she’s a dancer, artist, speaker, writer, she’s a prophetic evangelist who moves in the gifts of the spirit in signs wonders, and miracles.
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What a marvellous testimony! Good is good and your faithfulness to Him has borne so much fruit!
Indeed Louise. Look what the Lord has done — and is still doing in your life. No limits with Him for a life that has become totally submitted to Him. He has and does use all the challenges as creative material to form and fashion your life and those of others through you. Amazing testimony.