Bible Stud 1: My Biggest Role Model:Demi Lovato

Hey Girls,
 As well as Demi Lovato's amazing music (especially the Unbroken album) she is a great Christian girl who inspires me and I thought this would be a great lesson for the new Bible Study! Demi was battling eating disorders,depression,and she was unhappy with her body image which caused her to make a few bad desicions. She chose to go to rehab and get her life back on track and she says that God helped her turn her life around and become an amazing music artist and the great person she is today: Here is a small note she wrote that I thought was inspiring (also don't forget if you haven't already to download the Unbroken album of hers you will not be dissapointed!)


"As many of you know, last year at this time, I was in treatment. I spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year away from my home and family which is why I am so excited to be with them this year. Thinking about how far I have come in a year makes me so thankful. I could not have done this without God and the amazing support from my family. They have stuck by me through everything and love me just the way that I am. That is a wonderful feeling to know that people accept the real you. Honestly, I am thankful for my life path, including the highs and the lows, because it has caused my true self to shine through. Going to treatment was a gift and I believe it saved my life. I learned how to be strong and healthy even through struggles. It also helped me open up about my issues and share them with others. Knowing that my family, friends and fans accept me for who I am is the greatest feeling ever!
What a difference a year makes - I cannot believe I'm out on tour again! I just got done with my first show in Detroit. What an amazing crowd! Sometimes I cannot believe how lucky I am to be on the road and doing what I love every night. I am even going to perform in my hometown, Dallas, over the Thanksgiving holiday. I am so excited to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Texas. They are so much fun! Every Thanksgiving my entire family (about 50 people) gather around and eat tons of food and talk for hours. Since I do not get to visit Dallas as much as I would like, I really appreciate my time there with everyone.
I am so thankful that I am healthy and happy this year. I no longer take things for granted, like my family, friends, fans and career. Each day is special to me and I take each day one day at a time.
Sometimes people get busy and forget to enjoy the moment - but I know I will not do that this holiday season. I have worked very hard to get to the place I am today and I am going to enjoy every minute of it! I wish all of you a very happy and healthy New Year.
Stay Strong!"
Love,

New Online Bible Study I am starting!

Hey girlys! Omigosh! I am sooo excited to start a bible study on my blog. You do not have to be committed to anything go anywhere and just simply visit my website to get a full bible study lesson ISNT THAT COOL:) For about 2-5 months we are going to be discussing a topic I felt was very appropriate for this age. It is called:Self Worth,Self Beauty,Living Happy,Living for God!
As girls we need to be confident in ourselves we need to know that God sees us as beautiful and we are worthy to Him,our creater and that God created us in his image. Mostly just how to live happy and know your worth and your beauty and strive to be just like God. Yes, we should most definitely put God and helping others before ourselves in life but we need to feel confident about ourselves to be our best and feel awesome to be amazing girls ready to serve the Lord! This is Bible Study 1 so every time I head a post with Bible Stud 1 then this is the topic we are discussing. I am hoping to start a Bible Study 2 on a different topic but we will have to see in about a month or so if it will be too much doing 2! Pleaasse PLEASE Please I am begging you will all my heart and soul to reccommend this blog girls I was ready to stop my blog today because I feel as if all the work I am putting into this is going to waste if nobody is coming on my site so it would mean the WORLD to me if you would just comment now and then and lemme know that you are actually reading this and/or learning something. Thanks girls!!!!
-Ash

NEW Ipod touch app

Hey God gurls! A few days ago the creator of Words with friends and Hanging with friends came out with a new app called Scramble with friends! The rules are you can go any way(across,down,diagonal) and try to create as many words in 2 minutes. You each have three rounds and whoever gets the most words total in all 3 rounds wins! I can't wait to play with any of you. So download the free version today and comment what your user name thingy is. I think mine is luv2sing333 but I am not 100% sure so just try that and if not as i said comment and tell me your new user name (or if you have any other games with friends accounts you can login to your existing account!) Love you all:) Have a blessed weekend:)
-Ash


P.S
I am not sure if I should be sharing this with you or if u will think I am creepy but I lost 3 teeth today and I had three missing before today so I have 6 teeth gone. But really 3 teeth lost in one day that's crazy right I think I have like a mouth disease or something cuz thats just creepy??!!!! NOOOOObody looses 3 teeth and in one day chica chica AWKWARD:) Sry for my random sharing I just had to tell you all that
-Ash


Proverbs 3:5-6

In the bible: Romans

Hey girls I have a confession to make...... I have always thought the Bible was BORING! All the names and cities and history just felt like I was sitting in history trying to zone out. I have always wanted to just read the Bible and understand it and I found a solution. About a month ago I ordered a bible online at Christian Book.com called the  Revolve Devotional Bible. It is a teen girl bible translated in New Century form (the easiest to read) and it wasn't crazy expensive between $10-$13 so its great (cept for the fact that I ordered it a month ago and it just got here today)! Today I read all of Romans and I loved it. Romans is my favorite chapter of the Bible although as I said I havent read much of the bible before I got this one. I love the history it gives you on each chapter this is waht Romans said


Paul heard through the grapevine that some Christians in Rome were twisting the truth of the Good News into a liscence to live crazy wicked lives. Their messup-up logic was, "Since our sins are covered by the blood of Christ and we're already forgiven, lets go hog wild and do wahtever we want! And because Paul couldn't get there in person he picket up his pen and. through the direction of the Holy Spirit, wrote this letter to set them straight. He covered three main topics in this letter; the natural sinfulness of all humankind, the way God provided out of sin through Jesus, and how Christians should live after trusting in Christ. Instead of being a historical book, Romans is a deep study of Gods amazing grace!

I really love the three main topics and think if you are a new Christian or if you have already accepted Jesus as your savior this chapter is short, to the point, and worth reading! Romans is a good place to start in the Bible and for me was pretty much Christianity in a nutshell!

I love you girls and thank you for reading. Have a blessed week:)

Ash

P.S I have a prayer request! There is a fmaily I don't know but my mom knows in some way and the mom has breast cancer. She missed too much work for her appointments that she lost her job and now her husbands losing his good so please pray for her to be healed if it is Gods will and  for God to finacially support this family. Thanks!

New verse of the week

Hey girls heres the new verse of the week

Titus 2:7 NLT

And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching.


I love this verse because school is just coming back from winter break (  well its been a week already GOSH this week went by fast!) but anyway I like this verse because it tells you to set an example for others by doing good works and I think this is the most important way of witnessing for God around others at 
school,dance,art,piano,at home, WHEREVER AND WHENEVER!


Your a great person:)
-Ash

Bethany Hamilton in Corona!!!!!!!??

Hey guys! SO i absolutely loooved the movie soul surfer it was so inspirational and I fell in love with Bethany Hamilton:) Well guess what Bethany Hamilton is going to come to Corona! Next Sunday Jan 22nd Bethany will be at  Roosevelt High School with Vantage Point church sharing her testimony and talking about God and how he helped her through everything she has gone through. I hope everyone can go I know I really wanna go! For more information go to www.air1.com/ click on concertrs and events and then search Bethany Hamilton. She will be there at 8:30 am,10am,and 11:30 am !! . Also, anyone who goes to bible study with me and Shannon on Weds. the person who wrote our study book (which I love) came out with new book called A Girl after Gods own Heart devotions and through a website called www.christianbook.com it is on sale for only like 5 or 6 dollars and shipping is really cheap or if you wanna buy other books online from that website there is a coupon code for free shipping over orders of $35 so if you have Christmas money burning a hole in your pocket that is a great website with really cheap prices on great Christian books and other stuff. Another thing is that on www.air1.com/ they have a free popular Christian song every day and if you go on there click on Music and then there is a tab that says free music you can get an itunes coupon code just go to the itunes store and click redeem. Then enter the code found on the Air1 website and the song will automatically download to your itunes library! They have really good songs on there actually and like new ones too so its awesome:) Love you Girls please continue commenting to lemme know your actually reading this I don't wanna do all this work for nobody to read it so tell your friends and try to go on when you have a spare moment and I will really appreciate that. Thanks for all your support!
Your great..
-Ash

Lifehouses Everythings skit

Hey I know I already posted this vid but some people made me aware that they couldn't view it so I'm going to post the link for you to go on youtube and watch it> I got chills watching this thats how inspirational this vid was really worth 5 minutes of your day:)

Here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA

Or if for some really odd reason this doesnt work the name of the vid is "Lifehouse's Everything Skit" so just search it on youtube!

Hope you get a chance to watch this vid Love you all so much! Your beautiful people
-Ash

You can have fun and be Christian!

Sometimes I feel like being a Christian means being perfect and doing everything Christian all the time although it doesn't. I sometimes feel it means you cant gush about boys,wear makeup, talk about your teachers and how unfair it is that you have so much homework the first day of school ( if your reading this Ms. Goad that was soo not coo!l)  Sometime I feel you can't talk about fashion and go on celeb gossip websites and you have to read Christian stuff in your spare time and go on Christian websites but thts not what being Christian is about! You need to be a girl a pre-teen girl for that matter and do all of tht stuff:) God wants you to have fun but just make sure you don't leave him out. I try to devote 15 minutes  on really busy nights up to an hour on not so busy nights to God. If that means writing my blog, doing my devotion books, going on Christian websites, and listening to Christian music sometimes but other times I just listen to Ke$ha and Katy Perry ohh and dnt forget about JB! You do not have to be doing everything perfect all day just remember that God is a serious thing and should be #1 priority but also have fun with yourself and be a girl:)

Love you!
-Ash

Btw- I went to the peoples choice awards last night AHHHMAZINNNG show! Demi Lovato's performance was amazing ! I love her even more because she went to rehab for anorexia and cutting herself but got out of it and came out a better person devoted to her music and then had a bunch of success and she knew to never give up and that God was always with her so she actually asked to go to rehab and get help to start a better life. I think thats amazing how she was so upfront with the world,her fans, and the media and God blessed her so everyone supported her the whole way through:) shes an amazing role model with a great voice!

My Weekly Blessings:)

Hi Girls!! Just so you know I didn't blog for about a week because I was at my grandparents house, then I was really sick, and then I went to church camp and now I am getting back to bloggin!!!! Before I do I wanted to tell everyone that bible study is rescheduled for Jan. 18th instead of tom. because many girls including myself could not make it that night!! I know I am talking about  me alot but I wanted to share with you something that really blessed me is that when school started out our class was finding out our partners for science fair! If you get a bad partner your whole month of science fair could be ruined so this was really important:) Everyone was nervous so we all held hands and prayed as a group us girls! It really blessed me that all of us were praying aloud in front of everyone and I am really excited that all us girls glorified God right then so anyone who prayed with me thank you sooo much for helping to shine Gods light with me and be a witness of the Lord for a few non-believers that saw us doing that! Okay another blessing was Church Camp! It was up in the mountain and I went with Northpoint church ( my friend Kate's church that I sometimes go to on Sundays) but anyway it really  taught me alot and I had soo much fun so thank you Kate for inviting me!! I also wanted to share a couple lessons that really made me think hard and alotta questions were answered so I thought maybe it would help you all too!

The first night we learned that Satan has many deceptions and one of them  is evolution! So when in school your teacher or anyone tells you that we evolved from monkeys or we just appeared on this Earth it is not true because in the Bible it says that God created us ! Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth "


The second day we learned that God created us in HIS image! This lesson really hit hard! You are Gods child and created how he wants you to be. Also I am  guilty of this one:( but God loves everyone equal so when you start to think that someone is not as good as you because you am a good student and never get in trouble and they do or, you always encourage people and they degrade people remember that God says he loves everyone equal because we are his child. Isn't that amazing! God is sooo good! So from now on I will remember that I am equal to everyone in Gods eyes and even though God might not love somebodies choices he still loves them as much as he loves me!  


That night we learned about his mercy and how Jesus died for us on the cross!! Also how to be saved you have to confess that you are unworthy and a horrible sinner while Jesus was perfect and that Jesus is Lord! Then pray and ask God for forgiveness for all your sins and he will erase all that sin! The example the speaker gave was imagine you have to carry a 20 ton bucket and run! We all know that we cannot do that so instead of trying to carry that big burden on your own if you confess you can not do it on your own and say you need Jesus because he is Lord and can do anything God will not just help you lift that burden he will take it completely away from you. As you might have figured out the 20 ton bucket was sin so just ask God to help you and that sin will be lifted off your shoulders.

Those are the 3 main lessons I learned a camp but mainly just LOVE one another! Compliment each other and just LOVE everyone!

I LOVVVE you girls and Jesus has,will,and always will love you as well:)

-Ash

P.S. I wanted to shout out to my friend Jeanette Choi if you are reading this thanks so much for the bracelet!
Can anyone believe she folded little origami starts poked a hole through them with a needle and made a bracelet for me they are so pretty! Plus she offered to sell them and give me money from her bracelet sales for charity!!! She is an amazing God girl! Thanks girl:)

My top 5 favorite website + New verse of the week:)

Hey girlies! It is winter break and I hav a little bit of free time on my hands so I have been going online and trying new websites! I found some amazing websites that I think you will love. if you ever get bored just jump on to one of these websites and it will entertain you for hours

1.Girls life
Wesite Link: http://www.girlslife.com/
Girls life is actually a magazine but a great website for teen girls. It has style tips,advice about guys,good workouts,quizzes,teen girl book reviews, and so much more! I loooovvvv it! I am saving my money to sunscribe to the Girls Life mag its only 10 bux for a year!!! It comes every other month and it is a great mag so if u get 10 bux thts a great thing to spend it on:)

2.God Girl
Website Link:    www.godgirl.com
This website is actually  a blog but not like mine. It is a bunch of Christian girls who write articles about faith,God,devos, fashion,and virtually anything and if you make an account or sign in with a google,facebook,or twitter account you can contribute to the blog too! It is a fun way to blog without actually having your own blog!

3.Teen.com
Website Link:  http://www.teen.com/
I love style and  though it is hard to admit but I also loove celebrity gossip:) This website has quizzes,fun stuff, and all the lastest trends and celeb gossip:):)

4.Igoogle
Website Link    :    http://www.google.com/ig
Those of you who do not have an Igoogle account you need to get one. With Igoogle you can chat with other Igoogle users (if you friend them) dont worry its not a chatroom! You can also customize your google page with games,your email,youtube, and create your own awesome backround! If you decide to get one or already have one comment and lemme know ur user name so I can friend you:) Mine is luv2sing so that will be fun

5.Christianity Today
Website Link:http://www.christianitytoday.com/iyf/
This website is  filled with spiritual questions and great answers to all your questions about faith,God,heaven,and everything about being a pre-teen

Yeah so that is all the amazing websites I can think of but I am sure throughout the week I will think of more and update this post so keep checking back on.


Also since it is New Years a time full of resolutions and new commitments I thought this verse would be a great verse of the week

Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed
Proverbs 16:3

Love you all! Please reccomennd this blog to others for I need more ppl looking at it for the New Years sometimes I feel all my work that I put into this blog is going to waste because nobody reads it so pleas please please keep coming on my blog! Thanks sooo much to all the people that do stay updated with this blog! Love everyone of you:)

-Ashley

Yet Another Christian youtube vid that will inspire you

This video is about a girl that is tempted by sin but finds God and how God is always there for you. I loooveed it:) Even though the beginning is really slow it gets sooo good trust me!

Again, Happy New Year 2012 and thank God that the world didn't end lol:) Have a great day today and know that you are beautiful to God and to me love you all sooo much xoxo
-Ash

Happy new years

Hey everyone this New year is going to be the best year yet! I have so many resolutions that I am determined to follow:) Here are some of my 2012 rezzies
1. Eat healthier
If any of you have this resolution then I am going to share some advice. If you completely take out desserts chips and soda this year you will crave them even more and when you splurge you will go crazy with the sugar so I came up with a simple plan to help me eat healthier without totally cutting out my favorite treats:
*only 1 dessert a day at the most
*only have soda once every 2 weeks ( i hate the idea of drinking your calories and soda is something I can live without)
* only have chips with meals once a week

2.Get in shape for dance
I am exercising with my dad in our home gym once a day to get in shape because I am starting dance soon and I need a stronger core!

3. Do my devotions every day

4.Call my grandparents once a week
My grandparents live so far away that we hardly see each other so this 2012 I am going to try to call them once a week and catch up

5.Do my chores EVERY day and donate money to charity
I get 50 cents a day each day I make my bed and feed my dog so if I did my chores every day that is 15 dollars a month:) Every other month I am going to donate all my chore money for that month to a charity and the other month I am going to get something for myself

6.Be a better blogger
I am going to try to blog every other day and blogging is something I love to do so it shouldn't be that hard to do and  I really want my readers to go on more this New Year!!

So those are my resolutions please share yours with me in the comments I would really love to hear:) and tell me what you all got for Christmas

Also,hope you all had a blessed Christmas and are having a wonderful New Year (so far!)

 I cannot make it to the bible study on Jan.11th so please still plan to go on Jan.11th although the date probably will change so I will keep you updated on that. That night me and my mom are going to the People's Choice awards in La for my Christmas present so I can't miss that sry:(

Love you all:) xoxo

P.S heading off to Miguels Jr. after a long workout haha:) After this no more fast food this week:)

-Ash