God’s favour and Man’s favour

Hehehe..it’s another posts by me

I just wanna tell you guys that someone has just send me 100$. Praise GOD!!!!Right on time when my last 10$ is gone cause i have to pay the working with children permit. I will only take 20$ from it, the rest 80$ i will use it for my school fee. The 20$ is split into 2 x 10$. The 1st one is for me. The 2nd 10$ is for tithe (in indonesian: perpuluhan).

I thanked God for his favour to me here in Perth. There are some friends who told me that they have a desire to give me anything that i need. I just have to tell them once when i need it. I believe that the desire are from God Himself.

I appreciate if you guys support me, both through prayer or financial support.

By the way, here are the thing that i need you guys to pray for me:

1. Righteousness in my attitude.
2. Repentance and FULLY WHOLE Healing in my heart, since the next week topic is REPENTANCE and FORGIVENESS.
3. God’s provision for my school fee and outreach TOTAL AU$8300
4. Laptop, God’s promises to me.
5. My Health.
6. Wisdom.

Thanks guys.

Blessing,

Ericko

+61450425176

Week 2 at YWAM Perth

Hi Guys.. It’s me again, and i just wanna give you all a glimpse of me here at Perth..It’s been 2 weeks i’m doing my DTS (Megacities) here.

On the 1st week we learned about “Hearing God’s Voice”. Shirley Brownhill, the School Director at YWAM Perth, was giving me new insight of Hearing God’s Voice. One thing that keeps in my mind is that

My OBEDIENCE will make room for other people to know God more.

And somehow i got revelation while i was doing my work duties in the kitchen about “Chains of Obedience”. It’s like i get a picture of chains with our obedience attached to each other. Our obedience LINKED and AFFECTS to other people life. When i’m doing my lunch dishes workduites God told me that i have to do it perfectly, clean the dishes so that other people won’t get sick by dirty plate, spoon and fork as well as the clean and fresh foods. If they get it perfectly they could their job like staffing the school, office, preaching, teaching, etc perfectly too. They could give thanks to the lord, and they could feel God’s grace through the foods and clean dishes that i’ve done. Just as Jesus’s act of obedient at the cross made room of salvation to all mankind, my obedient and yours will make room to others to know God more!

Also, being obedient will make me able to hear God’s voice clearly and constantly because my disobedience will make me deaf to God’s voice. I’m learning to be obedient in my every way here. Such like, when i’m mad with my lunch dishes team i told them what was in my heart, that i was mad at them. Just being open and honest to other people, of course in a gentle way .

Week 2 started on monday, 13 Oct’08. We learned about “God’s Character and God’s Nature”. This time Peter Brownhill taught us all.

The basic of this lessons is

God operates through His character.

And God’s Character itself is who God CHOSE to be from who He is. So it’s a matters of CHOICE.

Things that got into my heart was

To live righteously, see God in righteous way.

Know Him in truth, Intrepeter Him in truth, and Live Him in truth.

It was an amazing week!!!! I have been blessed by his teaching through the whole week here. I have to get to know Jesus more and more so that i will get the RIGHT ATTITUDE in my life, cause right attitude comes from knowing Him in TRUTH. I just knew that after all this time i have a WRONG VIEW toward God, it made me did the wrong attitude too. I saw God as a Father Christmas (the indulgent) and Frakenstein (harsh, mean).

And then i learned about HOLINESS in a whole new way!!! Peter said that being holy is not about reading the bible 15hrs a day or having quiet time 4hrs a day. It’s about

Being OBEDIENCE toward revelation that God gives TODAY, and TOMORROW.

Just like that!!! Wooooooow!! It’s amazing!!! In short i can tell that being holy is like being the MAN of OUR OWN WORD!!!

Here are the 8 of God’s character that Peter mentioned:

1. God is LOVE
2. God is HOLY
3. God is MERCYFUL
4. God is RIGHTEOUS
5. God is JUST
6. God is the source of WISDOM
7. God is FAITHFUL
8. God is TRUTH

PS: It doesn’t mean that God has only this 8 character.

Also, on wedenesday night we have an evangelism night. We practice evangilesm to all the people that we meet in certain places. My team went to one the mall in the city. Me and one of the staff, Philip, were doing some scanning throughout the mall. FYI, here in Australia people are straightforwards. It means that they respects us if we tell them that we are christian and we want to tell them about Jesus or maybe just praying for them.

We met couple people at first, but they rejected us. It’s cool!! I like this way! And then finally we met someone who wants to talk, it’s the mall security guard guy. He’s from Singapore and he is muslim. But somehow we manage to chat a while with him and then after that he have to go to work again and we say goddbye. But we prayed for him tough after the conversation.

So, we were looking for another people again. I talked to an old guy with his wife while they were sitting on the bench. I introduced myself and told her that i am a christian. I asked her if there anything i can pray for her. And her husband, the old guy, replied “I am evil. Lost souls” And after 5 minutes conversations, we said goodbye and i asked his name so that i can pray for him. I felt that this old guy has a bitterness in his heart. He said that he did not want to get involved with chucrh stuuf and Jesus too deep. He just pray once before he goes to work everyday. His name is David Merasee or something . I prayed for him that God will touch his heart and heal his bitterness. That God will talk to him on his daily prayer just before he goes to work.

Step of Faith part 1

Hi Guys!!! How are you doin??

I wanna let you know that I am doin GREAT here at Perth. The class has started since 2 days ago.

By the way, on monday was the REGO Day (Registration day) for all new students here in YWAM Perth. It has something to do with the book stuffs, passport things, working with children permission, and we had a BBQ Night and Games tooo. It was INCREDIBLE Fuun!!! On the REGO Day we were supposed to paid the School Fee which is about AU$ 3,500. If there are students which haven’t got any money yet they could tell their school leader.

I have talked to my school leader, Jen Brownhill, and she suggested that i pay with all of the money that’ve got. I only got $210 left in my wallet. So i gave the 200$ for covering the school fee. And i only have the $10!!! And i still have to buy some stuffs too in here (detergent, water container, sleeping bag) I did it as a step of faith, that God will provide all my needs. I wanna show Him that i’m not putting my trust in money, i put my trust in God. The school fee’s due on December 2008.

Also, i wanna mention to you all that God has promised me a Laptop too. He asked me while i was driving my car in Bandung - Indonesia, whether i want the laptop in Indonesia or in Perth – Australia? I replied “Australia!”. And here i am, still waiting with hope and trust that God will fullfilled his promise on my journey.

Friends, as you reading this blog, i want to ask you a favor for me. Please pray for me, put my name in your prayer list. Please pray for my:

• Heart attitude so that i may be responding to all the circumstances (lectures, workduties, outreach, etc) ahead righteously.
• Faith. To keep me on track.
• Health, so that i might not missed all the moments here.
• Financial needs, $3,500 for school fee.
• Laptop, brand new one. It will worth $1,000.

I’ll pray for you who read my blog too.

Blessing from Perth.

Ericko Tandayu

+61450425176

At Perth

Hi Semuanya.. From now on i will be writing this blog in ENGLISH. I know it’s hard for some of you.. But, i think it should be ok since you could use google translator.

Well, I arrived at perth on 4pm (perth timezone). We were picked up by YWAM Staff, Sarah and Petra.

We’re having dinner right after we arrived at the base. It was FUN!!!

And then the 2nd day, 4 Oct, we went to the city, exploring the city and searching for some stuffs like electronic adapter and new sim card which were PRETTY expensive!!!!

I am sooo glad that i live in Indonesia!!!! The card was AU$30!!!! Mannnnnnnnnnn!!! It was a ridicilous price!!! That’s not the whole part of it, the electricity adapter, which i will use for charging cellphone, was AU$13!!!! Booooy!!! Things are so expensive here! Again, glad to be Indonesian and STILL live in Indonesia! INDONESIA Rock!!!

But, i let it go cause my God is BIGGER than all of this!! I believe, the more expensive, there’s bigger chance for God to work through my financial life.

Although i was upset with the new sim card and the adapter, but the lord has given me a “pain killer”, it was HUNGRY JACK’S!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! Finally, after 9 months from Sidney, i got my ULTIMATE  DOUBLE WHOPPER!!! Boy, it was the BIGGEST Burger that i’ve ever eaten! It’s fit my stomach tough :-p

The fun is not over yet, last night we’re having a birthday party for Anna, one of the staff here. Uniquely, they set it on a Swing Dance tutorial!! At first i was hesitated and unwilling to dance for some reason. Buut, i couldn’t hold it much longer, my body was responsing to the groovy jazz musics. I began to dancing (inside), and it was transferred through my feet, they were began to dancing either. And then a girl with a curly hair ( i forgot her name turned out it was Kayla Harvard) shouted at me from the dance floor saying ” Ericko!!! You’re not dancing??!!!” And i was saying “Who?? Me?? Noo..I’m not into dancing.” She replied ” Ooh Come on!! Get down here!!” Well, the party’s host said that THOU SHALL NOT rejected if there is a lady who asked you to dance (in australian accents), So I began to dance, SWING Dance!

It was sooo hard!!! But i managed to overcame it, only the first phase. The others phase? Naaah, i blew it off. It’s too hard for me. But…you know what??? I’m starting to love SWINGIN’. Wanna know what’s on my mind?? I’m swingin’ with my lady, Retno Sri Wulandari, at my Wedding Party!!!! Yeaaaah!!!

Ooooh, enno.. I missed you so much!!! I wish i could see you one more time… (

Anyway, it was a lot of fun to swingin’. It brought joy to my heart!!! I wanna swingin for Jesus too!!

That’s it for now. I will let you know regularly about my journey here.

See yaaa!!!