Humility…

I am writing this to you with humility in my heart that I wanna ask you guys for forgiveness..
When I wrote to you on early of April, before my SOW started, I said to you that someone gave me money AU$ 1,800. And I was so happy about that! Also I told you that I felt that God want me to give away to the base that money. And I did!

The things is, I didn’t fully recognized that the person who gave me the money has already specific purpose for me to use that money for, which was for my SOW’s school fee. Also, that person was my own sister, Lidya, who is doing the same school with me now.

And today, my school leader spoke to me about it, and he just knew about this stuff cause I didn’t tell him who was the person who gave me that money. He said that when a person gives us, a missionary, money with specific intentions, we have to do it as the person’s will. And what I have done was the opposite. I repented and asked for forgiveness to my sister, that I dishonor her by doing that, also I dishonor God, and the last one is you all, my supporter who has been standing with me in prayer. I wanna ask for your forgiveness in regarding of what I have done was dishonoring you.
forgiveness
I spoke to the account’s officer and asked him by any chance is it possible to get my money back and transfer it to my school fee?
And you know what? It is possible! Wooooaaah!!! I am so happy!!! Yeaaah!!! Yaaay!!!

I also wanna let you guys know about my latest financial conditions. So far from today, 3rd June 2009, i still need AU$ 6,450!!!!! Praise Jesus!
And I still have 7 days left to due date of the finance, it’s on 10th June 2009.

I’m trusting God for this money, please stand for me in this area of my life.
And we will see how God’s power moves in such an amazing way!

If you feel like you wanna support me financialy, you could do it by doing online payment through this LINK

The details:

Donations for Ericko Tandayu, School of Worship.

Or if you are Indonesian, you could send the money through BCA Bank ac. 346 15 23721 a/n Ericko Steven Tandayu.

Please let me know if you did send me money, so that I could pray for you and that I could know who has been blessing me.

I’m still learning everyday to hear His voice and to obey it.

For His Glory, not mine.

Ericko Tandayu

Published in:  on June 3, 2009 at 9:13 pm Leave a Comment
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Kehendak Tuhan?

This post will be written in Indonesian only, for the sake of understanding of Indonesian people, my beloved nations!

Teman, bagaimana reaksi kamu kalau laptop kesayangan kamu tiba – tiba dicuri padahal kamu sudah sangat ekstra hati – hati dalam menjaganya?

Bagaimana kalau handphone kesayangan kamu jatuh dari tangga bergelimpangan dan akhirnya hancur lebur padahal kamu adalah orang yang sangat disiplin merawat barang kepunyaanmu?

Ketika hasil pengumuman ujian masuk ke sekolah atau universitas favorit kamu menunjukkan kalau kamu tidak lulus ujian saringan masuk padahal kamu sudah mengorbankan banyak sekali waktu untuk belajar dan mempersiapkan diri untuk ujian tersebut?

Ketika kamu mencoba melamar pekerjaan impian kamu di perusahaan impian kamu dan kamu tidak diterima padahal kamu sudah melakukan banyak persiapan yang signifikan untuk wawancara tersebut?

Apa yang akan menjadi reaksi kamu, ketika pacar kesayangan kamu, yang sudah bertunangan dengan kamu dan siap menikah dalam beberapa minggu ke depan, tiba – tiba membatalkan pernikahan dengan kamu?

Dan masih banyak pengalaman hidup yang tidak menyenangkan, pahit, menyedihkan, menyakitkan dan lain sebagainya.

Teman, kejadian – kejadian diatas tadi adalah kejadian yang cukup lazim terjadi dalam kehidupan seorang manusia. Dan kalimat umum yang sering keluar dari mulut kita adalah

Yaah, ini sudah takdir…

Mungkin ini kehendak Tuhan, ada yang lebih baik lagi di depan menunggu aku…

Gara – gara aku tidak berdoa tadi pagi sebelum berangkat, makanya…

Mungkin Tuhan punya kehendak lain…

dan sebagainya

Teman, Tuhan mempunyai rencana yang indah dalam hidup kita (Karena Aku tahu rencana – rencana yang Aku punya untuk kamu, kata Tuhan, rencana – rencana untuk kesempurnaan dan bukan untuk kejahatan, untuk memberikan kamu masa depan dan harapan, Yeremia 29:11 – Terjemahan langsung dari ESV). Dan Tuhan bekerja SEJALAN dengan karakterNya.

Apa karakter itu? Karakter adalah kualitas pribadi seseorang yang memberikan perbedaan dengan orang yang lain. Contoh: disiplin, sabar, lemah lembut, rajin, pemarah, suka mencaci maki, perkataan yang membangun dan mendukung, dll. Bagaimana sebuah karakter itu dibentuk? Dengan pilihan dan keputusan.

Contoh: ketika aku memilih untuk marah setiap kali ada orang yang menghina penampilan ku yang tidak sesuai dengan selera mereka, maka aku sedang memutuskan untuk menjadi orang yang mempunyai tingkat kesabaran yang rendah. Memang kesabaran bukan hanya tentang pada saat kita dihina saja, ada banyak contoh tentang kesabaran dan ini adalah salah satu perwakilan saja dari aspek ini.

Jadi, karakter kita dibentuk melalui pilihan dan keputusan yang secara konsisten dan berkesinambungan setiap detik, menit kehidupan kita. Sama dengan Tuhan, Dia juga mempunyai karakter karena kita diciptakan sesuai dengan gambar diri dan kemiripan Tuhan (Kejadian 1:26).

Trus apa saja karakter Tuhan itu???

Berdasarkan alkitab,

  • Penyayang,*
  • Pengasih,*
  • Panjang Sabar,*
  • Berlimpah Kasih dan Kesetiaan,*
  • Maha Kuasa, #
  • Allah yang Kekal, ##
  • Kehidupan, Jalan, Kebenaran, **
  • Pemberi Kehidupan yang Berkelimpahan, ***

* = Keluaran 34:6; Mazmur 86:15

# = Kejadian 17:1

## = Kejadian 21:33

** = Yohanes 14:6

*** = Yohanes 10:10

dan masih banyak lagi, ini adalah sekilas dari semua karakter Tuhan yang ada.

Ketika kita meresponi suatu kejadian seperti contoh yang diatas dalam kehidupan kita dengan mengatakan bahwa semua itu merupakan takdir dari Tuhan, bahwa itu merupakan rencana Tuhan, dan lain sebagainya, kita sedang mengatakan bahwa Tuhan adalah seorang PEMBOHONG! Kok bisa? Jelas, bahwa Tuhan bertindak berdasarkan karakternya, sama seperti manusia yang merupakan ciptaan yang sesuai dengan gambar diri dan kemiripanNya. Dan Tuhan bukanlah Tuhan yang pembohong, Dia adalah Tuhan yang selalu menginginkan yang terbaik bagi anak – anakNya.

Tuhan Yesus mengajarkan bagaimana kita seharusnya berdoa di dalam kitab Matius 9:10 yang berkata,

…datanglah kerajaanMu, jadilah kehendakMu di bumi seperti di surga.

Kalau Tuhan Yesus mengajarkan kita untuk berdoa seperti itu, apa maksudnya? Berarti kerajaan Tuhan belum datang? Tentu saja sudah tapi belum sepenuhnya. Karena apa artinya sebuah SETENGAH KERAJAAN? Harus sepenuhnya! Dan apa artinya ketika Tuhan Yesus bilang “KehendakMu Jadilah” ? Apakah kehendak Tuhan sudah terjadi di Bumi seperti di Surga? Sekali lagi, belum sepenuhnya!!! Kok Bisa? Karena Iblis masih menjadi penguasa atas dunia ini. Tuhan Yesus sendiri yang bilang di Yohanes 12:31 bahwa Iblis adalah penguasa dunia ini.

Bagaimana mungkin Iblis adalah penguasa dunia ini?

Iblis mencuri kuasa yang diberikan oleh Tuhan kepada manusia di taman eden. Dalam kitab Kejadian 1:26 dan 28 ketika Tuhan menciptakan manusia, Dia berkata “Berkuasalah atas seluruh bumi..” Maka jadilah semenjak itu Iblis menjadi penguasa atas dunia ini. Lalu apa maksudnya? Apakah Tuhan tidak mampu melawan Iblis?

Jawabannya adalah Tuhan mendelegasikan kuasaNya lewat manusia. Atau secara sederhana, Tuhan membagikan kuasaNya lewat manusia, yang mau taat dan setia kepadaNya (Abraham, Ishak, Yakub alias Israel, Musa, Daud, dll) Melalui KEHENDAK BEBAS manusia. Karena memang manusia mempunyai kehendak bebas, sama seperti Iblis yang juga ciptaan Tuhan. Tuhan pun sendiri mempunyai kehendak bebas. Melalui DOA, manusia diajak oleh Tuhan untuk berperang melawan penguasa dunia ini! Tuhan sudah menyediakan senjata peperangan secara roh kepada kita. Di kitab Efesus 6:13-17 dinyatakan dengan gamblang; pedang roh, perisai iman, sabuk kebenaran, helm keselamatan, dll.

Kita kembali ke topik mula – mula. Ketika seorang manusia memutuskan untuk melakukan tindakan pencurian, itu adalah hasil pilihan dan keputusan dari kehendak bebas yang dipilih oleh orang tersebut. Dan bukan kehendak Tuhan kalau barang kita dicuri oleh orang yang melakukan nya atas dasar kehendak bebasnya sendiri.

Iblis pun mempunyai karakter, salah satu nya adalah Mencuri, Membunuh, dan Menghancurkan (Yohanes 10:10)

Juga ketika kita tidak diterima oleh panitia ujian saringan masuk sebuah sekolah atau universitas favorit kita itu sudah sangat jelas! Ujian mempunyai standar, ketika kita sudah berusaha semaksimal kita dan ternyata hasil ujian kita tidak memenuhi persyaratan, maka itu memang tidak memenuhi persyaratan. Contoh: persyaratan nilai ujian 75%, dan kita hanya mencapai 74%! 74% bukan 75%! Coba lagi musim berikutnya atau ke sekolah / universitas yang lain. Jangan bawa – bawa dan menyalahkan Tuhan.

Ketika ada kecelakaan terjadi di depan rumah kita dan korbannya adalah orang kesayangan kita (orang tua, anak, saudara, dll), maka itu pun juga BUKAN kehendak Tuhan! Manusia mempunyai kehendak bebas, kehendak bebas itu bisa disalahgunakan dan juga dipengaruhi oleh si Iblis. Ketika seseorang berjalan menyebrangi jalan dengan tidak hati – hati maka kemungkinan atas terjadinya sebuah kecelakaan sudah meningkat tinggi. Dan juga ketika pengemudi kendaraan bermotor yang kurang istirahat malam sebelumnya karena terlalu banyak meluangkan waktu untuk hal yang lain selain tidur, maka keesokan harinya tubuhnya akan merasa amburadul dan lelah. Dan pada saat mengendarai kendaraan bermotor tingkat konsentrasi nya menurun drastis.

Segala sesuatu bisa terjadi karena PENYALAHGUNAAN KEHENDAK BEBAS! Tapi itu bisa kita LAWAN dengan DOA!!! Doa orang benar besar kuasanya (Yakobus 5:16)

Prinsip ini sangatlah penting! Menganalisa sebuah kejadian dalam kehidupan kita sehari – hari berdasarkan PENGENALAN kita akan karakter Tuhan dan karakter Iblis.

Karena Tuhan menghendaki pengenalan akan Tuhan lebih daripada semuanya (Hosea 6:6, Keluaran 9:14, Keluaran 31:13, Yesaya 43:10, Yesaya 45:6, dan masih banyak lagi) Ketika kita TIDAK MENGENALI Tuhan sebagaimana apa adanya Tuhan, sepenuhnya 100%, maka kita akan mempunyai dasar penilaian yang tidak kokoh sehingga kita bisa SALAH MENILAI Tuhan.

Tuhan melatih kita untuk berperang (2 Samuel 2:35, Amsal Mazmur 144:1) supaya kerajaanNya memenuhi bumi dan kehendakNya terjadi di bumi seperti di surga. DOA membawa suatu PERUBAHAN! Oleh kuasa doa Tuhan bisa merubah pikirannya, saat Abraham tawar menawar dengan Tuhan mengenai ada berapa orang percaya Tuhan yang tinggal di kota Sodom dan Gomora (Kejadian 18) Abraham bercakap – cakap dengan Tuhan pada saat itu, dan bukankah doa kita juga merupakan sebuah percakapan? Komunikasi dua arah antara kita dengan Tuhan, hubungan pribadi yang intim dengan Tuhan.

Mari Teman, kita memandang hidup dengan KACAMATA Nya Tuhan Yesus yaitu Karakter Tuhan, dengan begitu kita bisa mempunyai harapan yang tiada hentinya karena Tuhan adalah sebuah pribadi yang abadi dan tidak pernah berubah dulu, sekarang dan selamanya! Kita harus MENGENAL Tuhan kita, Yesus Kristus.

Sudahkah kamu kenal Dia?

Teman, aku sadar bahwa topik ini sangat sensitif akan pro dan kontra. Untuk diskusi lebih lanjut bisa menghubungi aku di

ericko_tandayu@yahoo.co.uk

Kita bisa berbincang – bincang melalui Yahoo Messenger.

Ericko Tandayu

Repentance from Pride.

Hi there..How’s it going there? How’s life? Hope that you’re having a great time.
I’m doing my School of Worship now here in YWAM Perth, and it’s been my 4th week (starting tomorrow) here. The school has started on 5th April 2009 and will be finished on 19th September 2009.

A glimpse about the school i’m doing now:
Worship does not requires music. It’s a heart attitude. Worship is an important tools uses in spiritual warfare. It impacts the spiritual realm. God is spirit and our enemy himself is not in flesh neither in blood, but in spirit.

My lectures here so far has been so amazing. I had lots and lots of revelations, breakthrough, and getting deeper to know God. Last week teaching was about “Freedom in Worship” by Lynn Packer from NZ. She is an amazing lady uses by God. So sweet and so lovely.. She taught us to have an attitude to approach God with Childlike attitude. On the 4th day of lectures she talked about that topics, freedom to worship God with a childlike attitude. Like a child who always have access to their parent’s presence, so are we. She shared about her life, how she had a lot of rejections, fear, got abused by people. She was having hard time to feel loved by people. Even when she was dating with her ex-boyfriend, Rob Packer who became her husband now, she was so confused by the way Rob treated her. She had never been treated like the way Rob did before by people. Rob never tried to kiss her or even to hold her hand ever. She thought that something wrong with her, cause her previous boyfriend even they are a christian never treated her like Rob did. Shortly she was saying that she’s still in process of healing everyday.

Right before the 1st break of lectures, i felt like God want me to sing her a song, my song that i have written before on my 12th week of my DTS. The song is about my personal revelations being loved by the Father God, the title is “I am Loved”. So I sang it to her. I can see how the song affected her so much, she wept her eyes and felt soo happy cause Daddy has given her a presents! What an example of childlike faith! And then after the break finished, she said to me if I wouldn’t mind to sing my song in front of the class and I said yes. While I was singing the song, she asked all of us to close our eyes to really grasp the meaning of my song and acknowledge it in our heart. Some of my friends cried and cried as they were listening to my song and that God was working in their heart. It was so encouraging to me, knowing that I could blessed people through my own brokenness!

That’s not the end, after i finished singing she asked us to gather around in circle. We moved our chairs aside to have more free space. And then we just jumping around in circle and schouting to the lord like a child! Not long after that all of us were laying down on the floor, she started to laughed really hard, like there was something so funny. Me and all of my friends was wandering what happened, but then we remembered what she taught us that a child laugh a lot (even God laughs, Zep 3:17). So after realizing that truth, we all started to laughs wildly!! It was fun!

After that all of us just relaxing on the floor, laying down comfortly. She walked around us, and started to prophecying each one of us. When she came upon me, she said to me that “I sings representing Father Heart of God, and God will use me when I sings there will be lots of healing upon the people. And I will go to nations to do that.”

It was really encouraging to me, cause before we started this school we need to write down of our expectations toward the school. And one of mine are to have an impacts in leading worship and singing to the people, a full force impact so that there will be changes (repentance, healing) within the people who hears me singing and leading worship.

That was the current news about the lectures. God also has been doing lots of character surgery in my heart, one of them was about an issue of pride. So, i needed money for my student visa (expired 22 April’09) $450 and the insurance $177, total 627$. On april 21st morning in the classroom, Chris Adams, our school leader was announcing to the school that me and hanna were still need some money. And he encouraged all of my friends to pray for me and ask God how much money should they gives to me regarding of my urgent needs. Shortly, people started to gave me their money on that day and the day after; 150$, 227$, 75$, 20$, 75$, 75$, total 622$ plus 6$ that i still have.

I got all the money for visa and insurance in less than 24hrs (23hrs) which was amazing! God convicted me in the morning of 22nd April when i was trying to sorted out the visa’s document. He said that there is a pride in my heart, and i said to God what kind of pride God? I felt like i have been humble enough. And He started to showed me stuff. It was very clear. Here it was, i was afraid to ask to people to give me support, afraid that i will revealing my vulnerable side that i need their support but not wanting to ask directly. In all of my previous newsletter i oftenly wrote to my friends that i needed some amount of money and asked them to pray for me. But deep down in my heart, i really wanted them to realized themself to send me money (without me asking) that i needed. It is considered as a pride to God. And it’s not pleasing to Him. God wanted to deal on this area in my life. So, i repented.

Here i am friend, laid bare, opening my vulnerable side toward you, that i do needs support in financial and in prayer. I have a need of AU$ 4,000 for my school fee and approx. AU$ 6,500 5,500 for my outreach fee (we are going to Mexico city and Cape town to apply stuff that we have learned in lectures phase). Friend, it would be wonderful if you would like to pray to God and ask Him whether He wants you to give money to me or not. And if He said yes and told you the amount, you could send the money through online payment located at
https://www.ywamperth.org.au/007/payonline.asp
noted for Ericko Steven Tandayu at School of Worship.
Or BCA Bank (Soekarno Hatta, Bandung branch) acc.number 346 15 23721, noted for Ericko Steven Tandayu.

I would appreciate it greatly if you’d either write me a short note or e-mail so that I know exactly who are supporting into my life. That way, I can also keep you in prayer. Please feel free to share any prayer requests at the same time.

Prayer requests:

  • Greater Revelations and Breakthrough in my life while i’m doing this school.
  • Salvation, Repentance and Discipleship in my family (my dad has not yet FULLY repent from his old life, i have 3 younger sisters and 5 younger brothers who still doesn’t have personal relationship with God).

Friend, thank you for your prayer and support. As for me here, i’m still trying to obey God one step at a time everyday towards what He has prepared for me ahead.

For His Glory,
Ericko Tandayu

Published in:  on April 27, 2009 at 12:14 pm Comments (1)
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Let ME be MYSELF…

How does it feel when people treated you like that you don’t have NO ROOM at all for you to move, to be yourself? When to be yourself is WRONG, and to be the person that people want you to be is the right person. Isn’t that so frustrating? I’ve been there a long time ago. I didn’t like the way i am, because I strived so hard NOT TO BE MYSELF! I became someone else beside me! So awful, awkward and terrible.

When you recognizes and values for WHO YOU ARE, it causes a response in you; It releases you to be WHO YOU ARE to the other person.

And

When you values another person for WHO THEY ARE, it causes a response in them; It releases them to be WHO THEY ARE to you.

WoW!!! It’s so TRUE and simple!! But many of us missed this point (so DID I). Did you know that God is a Person too? It means that this applies to Him to.

So, back again,

When you values God for WHO HE IS, it causes a response in Him; It releases Him to be all that He is to you.

Glory of God

Oooh maaan!!! I’m in trouble, that what I was said in my heart! I oftenly DISHONOUR, DISREGARD and not honouring Him in my life through my deeds, words, and thoughts. Now, I know why!!!! He wants to be in the place where He can be Himself!!! That’s Worship! Worship  have to be the place where He can be All that He is! Where is it? Is it in church? No, not at all. Anywhere could be th eplace, as long as we honour Him just the way He is, He will show up.

Friends and supporters, this is what’s in my heart that I want you to have a lifechanging experience remotely through this newsletter. Open your eyes, honour God almighty with your life.

The question is, How can we honor Him? What makes Him a God? What quality that He has? Character makes a person. We can honor or dishonor a person based on their character. Same to God, through His character we can honor Him. How can we know His character if we never have a relationship with Him? It has to be 100% Him, the fullness of His character, not 50% or even 99%! It’s not God if it’s not God!

The 2nd week of my school was about “Biblical and Historical basis of Worship”, Rob Packer from NZ spoke in our school. On the 1st day I stroke by the fact about honoring God, I have told you the story on the 1st part of this newsletter.

On Psalm 27, David proclaimed that God is his rock and his salvation. Although he surrounded by his enemies, he wasn’t afraid and fear at all. Cause he know that God is with Him! How can that be happened? Many times I’ve found that in times of trouble David could always overcome it, he always find a way to praise and honor God just the way He is. He conditioned himself to be that way, that every time circumstances comes he could only overcame it with God in his life. Verse 5 and 6 of psalm 27 said that on times of trouble God will put David high on a rock so that David’s perspective lifted up above his enemies. That’s when the victory comes!!!! When David’s perspective was lifted up above his enemies, the situation has not changed yet, but David has! His point of view has changed, he can see that his enemies is lower than him.

David’s perspective that has changed represents our heart attitude towards our troubles and problems. My heart used to not fully believes in God, eventhough i didn’t agree with the enemy’s lies i didn’t have full confidence in God. I have seen how God has provided me in my finance on my last season of my life, but still I was acting through my prayer like I have never seen Him doing miracles in my life. I did pray, but turned out my prayer was considered as whinning, complaining and even testing Him!!! I was shocked knowing the fact that I was testing God! I repented, humble myself, and seek for His mercy upon my life. It was never my intention to do that. Things that I thought was true turned was not the FULL TRUTH, it has to be 100% or else not at all!!!

I only have 2 more days before my Australian student VISA expired :D But you know what? The fact that I haven’t got the money physically, the fact that I still need AU$ 5,000 in 2 days, and the fact that I will also need lots of money for the next 2 month for outreach, I have changed! His truth has changed my heart, my perspective! I am standing now, looking down to my problem on a higher different ground! I am not afraid. Lacking of money won’t make me go back home to my country, I know what I’m doing here, to fulfilled God’s will. Creations shall not dictates nor ever controls The Creator. How could things like money could control God’s promises in my life? NOT A CHANCE!!!!!!! Even the sun stop shining, I will be stand HERE firmly!

For the glory of the King,

Ericko Tandayu



Published in:  on April 19, 2009 at 10:55 pm Leave a Comment

He is Worthy

Hiii, how you doing there?? I hope that you’re doing great and peaceful there. Wish all the best!
Just wanna let you know through this newsletter that I’m here now on my 1st day of the 2nd week of my school, School Of Worship, which so far has been STRIKINGLY AMAZING!!! On week 1 we (as a school) learned about Character of God, in more specific way. Our Speaker was Rachel. She’s been amazingly done a great, great obedience. ‘Cause she’s been preparing stuff for the lectures and turned out that God spoke to her about something else. And so, she was being obedience to the lord to shared the topic to us, on the 1st day was about
Idolatry“.

If i could say in one sentence things that i have learned from this topic, it would be like this,
“We don’t get to choose to believe who God is, He is who He is.”

Stuff that was really stroke me was about “Do we really know and trust Him in just the way He is?”
If we truly know that He operates based on His Character, how can we gives room for; fear, rejection, worry, doubt, anger, pride, etc?
We need to LIVE IT (God’s Character)!!! I stood amazed when I heard about this teaching, i felt sooo convicted. I need to know God more and more, and the sad part is that’s not enough!! I need to LIVE it! His character needs to be ALIVE in my life! I need to embrace and acknowledge it EVERYDAY! So when circumstances comes or bad things happened in my life i will not accused, doubted Him. Instead i will keep trusting Him! It’s not just about saying this thing that everything’s gonna be alright to ourself, but waaay more beyond than that. It’s LIVING UP the TRUTH!

On the 2nd day stuff that we learned was not less intense than the 1st day, the fact was it was AMAZING (again)!
It was about
“The Worthyness of God”
I learned from the basic again, my point of view about God was being fixed. The question was, “Do i really see that God is worthy to follow?”. That all glory belongs to God and God alone. Because He is God and I am not.
I learned about Living my life for His glory and not mine. Rachel taught us that if we’re not living for God’s glory, we will living for our own glory. It feels like living underpressure, that we need to work things out perfectly everytime and that we always think what would people said about this and that if we didn’t do this and that?
To be honest, I still struggling about those area in my life. At the end of lectures those day i repented to God and you know what??
God gave me freedom!!! I just felt that He took away my glory with His, i didn’t to feel the pressure again anymore!! I don’t need to worry about anything anymore, cause it’s not about me, it’s not about my glory but it’s all about Him and His Glory!! Oh WOW! What a revelation!!!

That’s probably my highlight for last week in my school

So, I would love to get a response from you personally, tell me about your life. How’s your life lately? How your relationship with God? Is there anything I could pray for you? Please let me know, it would be my pleasure!

I do need prayer too here, here are the things that you can pray for me guys:
- Financial, still needs AU$ 5,000 (the school gave me grace until 25th April, but basically the due date is before 22nd April. Because my VISA will expired on that day)
- Revelations and Healing breakthrough.
- Growth in Character.

I know that the one who called is dependable. If He said it, He’ll do it
1 Thes 5:24

For His Glory,
Ericko Tandayu

Published in:  on April 13, 2009 at 8:24 pm Leave a Comment

The 2nd Journey will begin..

Heeeey Guysss!!!! What’s up??? Hope you all are doin greaat!!

So my next school is gonna start tomorrow!!! yeaah, it’s so exciting!! I have been here in Perth for the last 20 days after outreach watching all my october friends left, it’s not easy, i miss them now!! But i know i will see them someday, somehow :)

I’ve been praying and fasting, interceding (praying too) for people that God has put in my heart for the last 3 weeks here. It’s kinda fun!! Cause before DTS, i didn’t enjoy doing this stuff. Specifically i’ve been praying for all the october quarter regarding the next step after DTS. I felt like God moved me verry deep in this area. So what i did was i lay my hand on the chapter to every school on october quarter, praying that God will open the doors and windows to the next step!!

A Prayer

A Prayer

I’ve been doing a lot of reading too..One of the book that read was about VISION, it’s the biography of the founder of my chucrh in Bandung – Indonesia. His name is Jeremiah Rim. One things that reaaaally stroke me about this books is about THE POWER OF VISION!

The power of Vision.

If we already knew since we were young that we will be the President of our own country, we will prepare everything!! We will prepare every requirements for a President, probably even more than it requires!! Every minutes and every steps will considers as a VERY IMPORTANT steps!!!

It reminded me about VISION that God has put in my heart, and i need to put my steps in every way towards the vision and not away from it. I will keep my EYES to HIM!

To seeee VISION

To seeee VISION

Anyway, my School of Worship (SOW) has 11 students so far..We came from multinational which are; Indonesian (2), Korean – Canadian (2), Norwegian (2), American, German, Hawaiian (2), and Singaporean. And i also got a MACBOOK!!! Yeaaaah!! Wait a second, it’s not mine…Someone just lend it to me for free for 3 months until the lecture phase is finished!! It’s so cool, i didn’t expect this!! The things is God has promised a laptop in while i was in Indonesia, couple weeks before DTS started. And i asked him a PC’s laptop before. But 2 months ago, i got CONVERTED from PC’s into MAC’s!!! Since God hasn’t gave the laptop, i changed my wishlist! I also said to Him that i really wanna try it (MAC) first for couple days before he gave me one..And here i am, with 3 months FREE DEMO of MACBOOK!!! Hurrraaaay!! I take that as confirmation God!! This macbook will helps me BIG TIME cause i will use it for updating my journey to all of you!!! And for the assignment from the school too!! Also i will use it to record songs that God gives me, every melody in my heart..

Also i wanna updated you all guys that I’ve already got AU$100 2 days ago!!! Yeaaaaah!!! Praise God!!! I used that money for paying my deposit fee! So far here are the details of money that i still need;

  • $177 for insurance
  • $450 for student VISA
  • $420 for 3 weeks accomodation (foods and bed at the base)
  • $3900 for school fee

My School leader said that the base leader allowed me to join the school eventhough i haven’t paid the school fee. But they need to see the money soon after the school started, or else…I don’t know!!! Guys, God told me to do this school and this is not my will to do this too. So He has something for me to do here right? He also said to me that he will do Miracles!!!  On Psalm 77:14 he said that He does Miracles!!!

I would really appreciated if you willing to stand with me together to God and just keep praying until something happens!!! Like the one that’s been said,

Isaiah 62:6b-7a

…Day and night they keep at it, PRAYING, CALLING OUT, reminding God to REMEMBER. They are to GIVE HIM NO PEACE until HE DOES WHAT HE SAID… (the message bible)

I will be updating if there anything that happened!!! So let us GIVE GOD NO PEACE until HE DOES WHAT HE SAID!!!!

Published in:  on April 4, 2009 at 12:53 pm Leave a Comment
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Obedience (again)

Hey Everyone..I missed you all here :( But I know that you still there :)

I just wanna let you know about short update of my journey here in Perth – Australia. Basically i’m doing school of worship now in Perth which will be started on 5th April 2009, it’s like 8 days from now.

Today, on our base we have friday night meeting, you cansay that it’s like friday night service, like church service. And, when Danny Taylor, one of the base leader,  announced to the audience about offering, God said to me like this,

ERICKO, give ALL of your MONEY to the base.

And i said “Whaaat??? I just got my money for VISA, Enrollment deposit and Health Insurance, and you want me to give it away?? Is that really you God???” I was shocked!!!! The amount of the money that i had was AU$ 1875 approx.

I said to God, OK God, if that what you want.

See guys, here is the situations. I Really need the money cause my student VISA will be expired on 22 April 2009, and i need this money so bad to extended my student VISA. But yeah, God has spoken, and when He speaks, He Creates!!! I want to be obedience to Him. I believes Him.

Also i need the money for my school fee which was AU$ 2,900 before, and now since God told me to give it away so total money that i needed is gonna be back to NORMAL again, which is approx total AU$ 11,500. I am TRUSTING HIM COMPELETELY on this. So you know my AU$ 3,900 school fee is due on 5th April 2009 which is 8 days left. And my VISA, Enrollment deposit, Insurance which approx total AU$ 900. Basically, i need approx total AU$ 4,800 before 5th April 2009.

I just wanna say,

I’M COUNTING ON GOD!!!

Friends, you know that the prayer of a righteous persons is powerful and effective!! It would be SUPER WONDERFUL if you could PRAY FOR ME everyday for the NEXT 8 days!!! I can only say BIG, BIG THANK YOU to you all..

Can’t wait to see the miracle to be happened!!!

Published in:  on March 27, 2009 at 10:03 pm Leave a Comment

Know the Love!!!

Hi guys!!!! It’s been a while hey :D

So, here i am now, back in Perth – Australia. I just got back from Indonesia 4 days ago.

God has been doing AMAZING stuffs in our journey in Indonesia. When we were in J-City, we did lots and lots of evangelism in slump area and prostituion area. Here is the highlight;

One me and my team went to some slump area under the bridge, we were wondering around and just greeting the people there. And then some lady greeted us and we had small chat outside her house. She told us that her daughter was missing since July 2008 and she hasn’t able to find her. I asked her if we could pray for her, and she said “Yes!!”. She invited us to come into her house, and i prayed for her. I was able to shared with her about some scripture in Luke 7:24,

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.

I encouraged her that the way to win something is to lose it. Laying down our right to God (FYI, she wasn’t a christian) and that God also understand what she felt because He also lost his son, Jesus at the cross. She felt so blessed and encouraged after i prayed for her. And then the next week we came to visit her again. She said that the night after we prayed for her, she felt so much peace in her heart and when she prayed to God (whom she doesn’t know the name, our God) she was crying sooo hard and felt that her pain in her heart was taken away, she felt sooo LIGHT!! It was amazing!!!!

On our 2nd visitation, i told the lady that in order to get the FULLNESS of God, she needs to be under His authority, meaning she needs to give her life fully to God, Jesus Christ. And guess what???

SHE DID IT!!!! WOW!!!!! That was the FIRST TIME ever in my life to help someone come to the lord!!!! I am so HAPPY!!!! Praise GOD!!!

After she finished the salvation prayer we asked her if she wants a bible or not, and she said yes. she just jumped out into reading the bible right away. I was able to led her into clear understanding, it was John chapter 1. :) Seeing her like tht was soooooo encouraged me and my team!!!

WOOOW!!!

So far for the last three month, the theme of my life is “Knowing the Love and the FULLNESS of Him”. God has been speaking to me heaps of time about love and knowing Him more in LOVE.

It’s from,

Ephesians 3:19b

…that you will able to KNOW that Love (Christ’s love). Then you can be filled with FULLNESS of God (NCV)

We need to FULL with God’s love which is Christ and be whole and content with that. After we are filled with, our cup (heart) will be FULL with EVERLASTING LOVE – the source of love. And because God’s love is everlasting, our cup must have to be overflowing!!! Now, from that overflowing of love we can share and give it to others!!!

I had a BIG, BIG problem with this love issue, cause my heart was so used to receives hatred, pain, rejection, mocking, and other bad stuffs. I seldom receives love, affirmation and positive comments. Turned out that my heart was FULL with BAD STUFFS.

Proverbs 4:23 said that we need to keep our heart with all vigilance, for from it FLOW the SPRINGS of LIFE (ESV).

So, i could say that my heart is the SOURCE of my life, and because i allowed bad stuffs came into my heart i can only PRODUCES bad stuff which are rejecting people, being critical, etc. An apple tree could only produces apples fruit, a mango tree could only produces mangos fruit. Same like me, my heart could only produces bad stuff cause i didn’t know the FULLNESS of God’s LOVE and i didn’t acknowledge His Love in my life!!!

Colossians 1:28c said,

To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. (the message) And in Colossians 3:14b said “…wear LOVE. It’s your basic,..” (the message)

So, friends in order to get the FULLNESS of God we NEED to know God’s LOVE first, which Christ the PERFECT EXPRESSION of God’s love through the cross.

It’s so amazing how God gives me revelations to revelations, it’s like the best things ever!!!

I just wanna informed you that i got Rp 15.000.000,- (approx. AU$ 1,875) on 12th March 2009 from the Lord!!!! Someone just gave it away for me!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaah!!! PRAISE GOD!!! So AMAZING!!! The moment i least expected, blew my mind away!!! Also an update about my financial needs regarding to the school of worship that i’m about to do in 5th April 2009.

We’ll be going to Mexico city and Cape town for outreach. And since both destination is pretty far, we need a huge amount of money too for accommodation too. I’m gonna need approx. AU$ 6,500 and the due date is 10th June 2009.

I really TRUST GOD for this needs, and i BELIEVE that He will PROVIDES (as always) cause He’s the one who called me to do this, so He’s the one who will equip me with everything that i need. It would be SO WONDERFUL if you could PRAY for ME and just support me everyday through your prayer. Here are the things that you could pray for me:

  1. School fee AU$ 2,900 left (due on 5th April 2009)
  2. Outreach fee AU$ 6,500 (due on 10th June 2009)
  3. Daily provisions (foods, clothes, etc)
  4. Revelations breakthrough of knowing God
  5. Personal growth in God – Maturity in Love
  6. Process of extending student visa (God’s favor and man’s favor)

Well, it’s been a blessing so far to have EACH ONE of you in my life for the last 6 months. There is EXTENDING 6 months ahead too, hopefully you will be able to keep stand together with me and i will pray also for all of you to know God in a deeper way everyday of your life.

Blessing and Love from Perth,

Ericko Tandayu

Published in:  on March 18, 2009 at 2:04 pm Leave a Comment
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I’m READY NOW!!!

Hey guys..How you doin there? How’s life treatin’ you? Mine here is so great. I can see and know God more and more in everyday of my life and every deatil of it.

Just wanna let you know that this is one of the most important newsletter that i’ve ever written to you.. :D

As you know that i’m still doing my school (McDTS) and we are on outre@ch now in J@karta. So i will let you know first about the update here so far. The most encouraging moment here was when i led a lady to the Lord 6 days ago!!! That was my 1st time to do that!!! And the best part is i did it to my own people, Indonesian!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I’m so happpy (God would be super, super happier than me for sure)!!

For your information, telling peoples (especially my own people, Indonesian) about the gospel was not an easy job for me. I always freaked out!!! Sooooooo afraaaaaaaaid!!! I NEED to go back to the Lord for strength everytime i wanna do it!!! I cannot do it on my own!! My heart attitude is CLING ON to the LORD!!! And yeah, he always faithful. Everytime i freaked out he’s giving me a NEW STRENGTH and JOY to do it! Oh yeah!!! :D

So, here’s the deal :)

When i was in Perth, God spoke to me to do a School of Worship right after i finished my DTS. And that was not my original plan (i wanna go home and minister my family), but turned out he has the best plan for me (as always) :D

Here is a brief description about School of worship quoted from the website, click HERE

We take a deeper look at what worship is and how we can use it as a tool of intercession, declaring truth and evangelism. The school is not only for musicians and singers, it is for all that would know God more and have a desire to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. The School of Worship is about encountering God and getting a passion for Him and a passion for the nations. It’s for all who want to learn to use the worship of God to affect the peoples of the earth. It’s about taking the praise of God into the dark places and letting God use us to break open whole nations for His glory.

The school is very practical in its approach so as to maximize your learning experience. We want you to be able to function in a worship outreach team, understand your call to worship individually and corporately, develop skills associated with worship and see more of God’s heart for every tribe and tongue.

Shortly, i applied to SOW and got accepted on 6th February 2009 :)

And then i got this informations from the school leader about 2 days ago. It was about FAITH, that i need to PAY my SCHOOL FEE before the class started which is about AU$ 3930. And that’s just the beginning, i still need to pay AU$ 100 (enrollment deposit), AU$206 (overseas healtcare insurance) and finally VISA AU$500. I haven’t know yet are there any fees that i need to pay. So far that’s the best that i can describe, overall i need AU$ 4736.

I will be trusting God for this amount of money, but i will also need prayer from ALL OF YOU cause as we know that God works through men :)

It will be wonderful if you guys would like to participate on my journey, amd here is what you can do:

1. You can transfer the money into my bank account which is BCA (Bank Central Asia) account no 346 15 23721 a/n Ericko Steven Tandayu (swift code: CENAIDJA). Or

2. You can pay directly using your credit card (2% charge applied) to YWAM Perth Online Payment, click HERE.

The detail is you just fill the form and on the “PAYMENT TYPE” choose “OTHERS”, School Name “SOW” and fill the details with “Donations for Ericko”.

I also put an image down here of how to fill the form, you can see it down here by clicking the image.

How to Pay Online

How to Pay Online

3. You can pray for me and stand in the gap for me to God for this need of mine.
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So, i told you earlier that this is one of the most important newsletter that i’ve ever written because it’s about OBEYING GOD’S Will in my life.

Thanks friends for you that have been standing with me so far, i really appreciated that. I am so excited about what God will do in my life and yours too!!

I will let you know any update of my journey with God the Father as soon as possible.

Blessing and Love,

Ericko Steven Tandayu

Published in:  on February 11, 2009 at 11:47 am Leave a Comment

Encouraging Jesus?

Hey everyone!!!
Just wanna let you know that i’m in Jakarta now since 4 days ago. I’m all complete and great here :)
So, here’s the deal.. Last night we had an intercession. It was me, david, amie, kayla, and theresa. Before we started, kayla had an idea of encouraging each one of us. We’re all excited! And then, after we finished encouraged each other, david came up with a brilliant idea that we should do the same thing to Jesus. Pretending that Jesus is standing in the middle of us.
We did that, and you know what??
We felt the presence of God so, so, so THICK!!!! It was AMAZING, totally blew my mind away!!!
In the middle of it, encouraging Jesus (saying good stuff about him, what we like about him, etc), i felt that Jesus was crying, he is so happy to hear stuff that really came out from the deepest of our heart. I mean, how often we say this thing to Jesus. Me, personally, not that often. Cause usually i only focus on my life and stuff that i want or other things.
He deserves all the credits, but we rarely say it as often as he deserves it..

After that, i felt that Jesus want to give a bIG HUG for all of us through me.. So, i did it, i hugged all of us :D It was so beautiful for me that night. Jesus could be so, so, beautiful..
The point is (again), how will you treat your God? As i’m writing this, i pray that you will get a fresh new revelation about this.

Blessings from Jakarta,

Ericko

Published in:  on January 31, 2009 at 8:58 pm Leave a Comment
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