November 2017 Update

The last few weeks have been insane. I guess the best place to start is by saying that yes, my college is closing in May of 2018 but that's ok.

It wasn't easy when we first heard the news but it has been a little over three weeks. The reason I say it is ok is because I know that God will continue to work in us no matter where we are.

 

It wasn't until our schools announcement was made, that I actually started to confess to God a lot of things that I don't think I would have confessed as quickly otherwise. I need to make it clear that through His goodness, God slowly began to pry out of my soul things that I never wanted to confess verbally to Him or to myself. I had a lot of lies that I was believing deep down inside of my soul.

 

It is true that only God can gently pull our deepest darkest secrets out of inside of us. He is so good.

 

I am so sorry I have not been as dedicated to this blog as I want to be. I did get an instagram recently though so if you want to follow me there, you can. (Username: ashleysrocha98)

 

In many ways, it took my school closing to allow me to get real with God, because now I am faced with the decision of choosing where I should go for college all over again. That decision is part of what triggered the multiple following conversations I had with God. I've been praying a lot and I'm not really sure what I will do for my junior year but God showed me I could trust him when he brought me to a college 2000 miles away from home, so I guess I should probably trust him again hu? Just for clarification, I will be in Spokane next semester (January 2018- May 2018) to finish out my sophomore year but after that, the Moody Spokane campus is closed. The Aviation branch will remain open thankfully! 

 

Thank you for reading this! I really appreciate it! Love you guys!

 

Love, Ash

Spiritual Battle

     Because I'm graduating, there are a lot of things I'm finding that I'm going to have to give up in life because I'm moving forward.

    We have to leave the past behind us. We have to press on as warriors into the unknown life ahead. at times in life. We must leave beloved relationships and people behind. At times, we even have to leave material objects but we don't have to be afraid because we know God is walking with us into this new section of life. God knows the right way.  

   Many times, as we grow up, we must stand up silently in our minds in a crowd and we will make choices that the world will hate. This is not where we belong and planet earth is not our home. We must learn to move on, and lay things down in this life and sacrifice things for one another. This world is fading quickly and it is temporary and it is not our home. 

     The Lord can hold everything we care about. We can let it go and put it in His hands. He loves the things that we love even more than we do. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step out and don't be afraid because God will not fail you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lay down your life at his feet.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

We can only defend our faith while we are still living on the earth.

 

 

That means we act now. Grab on to the Lord and we will walk into the storm together.

 

 

Peter could never walk on the water if he was never on the ocean.

 

 

We don't understand victory if we don't understand failure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grab onto Him. He won't fail you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hold up the light of Christ and let the world see Him burn and shine with His glory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hold it up and run with joy because He' not going to fail you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus raided our tomb, the tomb in which we were laying dead.

 

 

We have to raid other peoples tomb with the light of Christ because so many people still lay dead in their tomb.

 

 Submit to God and run with Him!

 

He won't fail.

Graduation

     Hey everyone! So yes, if it is in Gods will, I will be graduating in May! This is an extremely exciting time . . .but I won't lie . . . its a sad one too . .  I mean with Christ's power, I'm ready for life's adventures but I will miss the battle ground I am presently on, a lot . . .

     The school I am currently attending, I have been a student in for four years. I love it . . . It is my God given ministry and battle ground.

     If the Lord calls me to a different place to be in for college, I know so far, this school has been one of my favorite places that the Lord called me to serve in!

     He gave me companions that I shall never forget. They have made an incredible impact in my life and they have simply given me another reason to fight for the kingdom of Heaven. I can't even describe how thankful I am to the Lord for my family that He has put me in and the ministries and friends He has blessed me with.

     Truly, my friends are my family in Christ. The hardest part about college is that the Lord may choose to close this chapter of my life with these people. On the contrary, He may choose not to.

     What I have come to realize is this, I love what I am a part of now but I only have one life here and I must go where God sends me . . .But that makes me so excited because I know first, that I will always have the strength through Him. Second, all these people that I love, I'm about to spend eternity with them  . . . so I don't want to get too board of them yet! Hahaha! Finally, I'll be alright because where ever God puts me is the best place for me.

    I will miss my high school years so much. . . but its ok because God will give me the strength to follow Him and I pray I will remain right next to Him until the end of time.

   Thank you God for my family and friends and the indescribable  blessing and gift they are . . .And to God who looks out for me, loves me, and whose got this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think this quote is SO true when it comes to the eternal prospective! The beauty of the friendships that Christ provides for us are SO amazing that lets just wait for eternity because there, the relationships will be perfect and we will be with Christ!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually forget this all the time but love is selfless so just a reminder that when you say you love a person, love them selflessly, cause that is want love is!

 

 

 

Love, Ash! HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!

 

 

Thanks! God loves you!:)

 

The One Who Holds Us

I think a lot of times, we try really hard to succeed and do well at life in the sight of others and to prove it to ourselves. Most things we have control over, that is unless something else has the ability to change our circumstances, which there is. This means then that, our live is something we cannot control, except for in one aspect. That aspect is whether or not we will pray and ask God to change our hearts and attitudes. Of course, God can change our hearts without us even asking Him to but God wants us to ask him personally for multiple reasons.  First because if we ask Him ourselves, it shows Him our desire to change. Second, we are talking to Him. Third, because He calls us to pray and fourth, because He doesn't always like changing our hearts when we ourselves, personally, don't want to change. Anyways, we really have no control over want happens in our lives, ever. We are stuck in the middle between being afraid of what God may call us to do or constantly fighting God and always feeling stressed and tired. We ask ourselves, which one is worse! God created a very fine balance in our lives. A balance between us being able to control our situations with how we respond and him controlling our actual circumstances. We are very much involved in what happens in our lives but just not the way we all think. Sometimes we feel like this. . .

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

We are stressed and we don't know what to do. We need some one to save us. Some one to tell us everything is ok and that main person is God but we are afraid to go to Him because of what He may tell us to do but we are already too worn out. 

 

You are stuck. What do you do. Uhhh! The stresses of life.

 

Your mind is going crazy and racing like a perfect storm!

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know, our Father is peace, He has kindness and at times, He has humor. His mysteries are endless and His designs are so creative! He smiles as He watches the butterfly climb out of the cocoon and laughs at the foals first trot! He looks at what He has made and says it is good and smiles with strength behind His eyes! He leads with power and reins with terror! He will not let mere man question Him without later bringing the human to humble himself and bowing in honor before God. He stands before all things and all things are to bow in submission to Him. In all this grandness though, God is love but we must be carful to remember, love does not always mean Kindness, softness, and gentleness. Love will rebuke us harshly and demand that you make corrections before you move forward! It will open the path to lead us to our full potential. God is scary too! This is something we forget! It can be terrifying when He reveals His power to us. He can reveal parts of Himself to us and we can become afraid because He is so great and so different from us in His personally being. He can be terrifying but what if He wasn't one of those many things that He is? What if He wasn't loving? What if He wasn't peaceful? Demanding, jealous, gentle, creative? It can be hard to respect  Him at times, but in reality, we should be thankful He is who He is. If He wasn't even one of those things, this world would be an extremely different place. The one who is all these things IS holding us and like I said, if He was any different, I'm not sure we would want Him to be holding us! He is great and He is good and He is  the best person is the entire world, now in the past and in the future that could ever hold us!