Life

Sunday, May 29, 2005

i woke up real early, like 6 plus to go to church for a last min practise and a prayer cum annointing session. i was late as usual but ok la. the item was great. it was indeed a praise unto the lord. i totally focussed on him, that is for first service and then the dance was lovely. looking at it as a whole and on video, i'm so happy that God has used me to transform a gp of non dancers into praise dancers. u'll be impressed honestly. after the perf i sat thru service, the sermon was abt self control but i slept halfway cos i was way too tired . for second service, it was special cos they had a baptism in the beginning of the service and everyone celebrates with them. people from all the different language services. i saw my friends,matt, his mainland roomate, phoebe and weiyi. This time, dancing for second service, i was slightly more conscious but guess what, it didnt help cos i almost lost my footing twice. see what self consciousness does to you. heh. but anyway, everyone said it was great. amazingly matt said he knew the jazz part was my choreography. wierd. he said cos i looked the most confident executing it. his wife is a dancer so i guess he knows. well, after service, we waited for phoe's singaporean visiting friend and kailing to come join us but they were kinda late so we went to the dimsum place first. we had some problems ordering and some orders were wrong etc. so we took food for the two of them and they seemed to eat so little. a pity cos they still paid the same amt as us. so after lunch, we went shopping in northpoint again but this time, all i bought was vegetables and vermicelli to tide me thru this week. i've spent too much money last week and dimsum today and am feeling absolutely horrid abt it. at least i know i've shopped enough for a whole lifetime though!and bought stuff for people close to my heart. i was too tired to go mongkok again with phoe and friend so went with weiyi to meet dan, phil, hazel, etc for dessert but i didnt wanna eat cos it would mean spending more money but looking at the dessert was torturous, knowing i can't get all this in singapore. sighz. depressing thought of going back again and missing al these things. byt he way, i insisted on taking the tram from northpoint to causeway bay cos i know there wont be that many chances left to do so. so yet again on the tram with weiyi. we took the tram together the 2nd month we were here and look at how fast time flies. my eye problem acted up again during dessert time. my eye hurt so bad and it turned bloodshot red. i rubbed so the mascara may have smeared and affected my eye too so the first thing i did was the take off the lens and be blind for the night but it got better. However, i think the infection is back but the eye looks swollen. sigh. what to do! i think i'll revert to my specs for a week or so. so anyway, we went shopping and i rished back to watch the 4th season of americas next top medel. haha, singapore's not showing it yet!a trade off for not being able to watch american idol.. so i got back late but caught half and cooked my noodles with vege and wantons at the same time and after the show, got a good bath, came online, talked to some pp online, spoke to youde on the phone, sms conversation with nat and now im blogging!i'm going to sleep and not wake up tomo! leave me alone everyone! i need to rest.
sermon for 29/5/05
Proverbs 25:28: "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control".
ways to have self control:
1)determined to walk closely with Jesus daily. self control is the fruit of Christ's presense in your life.
2)to take care of your bodies which is the temple of the holy spirt. eg: rest, exercise and take care of our bodies and exercise self control with our body and mind.1 cor 6:19-20
3)Be in control of our time and how we spent it. Eph 5:11
4)Be in control of our money. matthew 6:33, 2 cor 9:8-11
5)Be in control of our sexual life. 1 cor 7:9, 2 Tim 2:22
6)Be in control of our tongue. 1 peter 3:10
we can never always be in control with our own strength (Romans 7:18-19) but there is Hope where it says in Philipians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength".
We will be all over the place if we do not exercise self control.