Compassions…

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day, every moment of it!

I just wanna share you my story 3 days ago..

So, it was happenned on 22 december 2008 around 00.30 in the morning..While i was walking home the girls from the base to their dorms, we met with 2 aborigin people who (appearantly) were drunk. One of them greeted me nicely, and i greeted them back too, nicely of course. But the girls were freaked out because (probably) of their appearance. And it turned out that the aboriginal guy was offended by the girl’s attitude (freaked out) and one of them were so pissed off and almost smacked them in the face!!!

I was totally freaked out too!!! Didn’t know what to do, i managed to got them distracted and the girls could entered the dorms safely (FYI: it was happenned right in front of their dorms). I was planning to go home right away after that, but i couldn’t because they invited me to sit (on the pavement) with them. Didn’t want to offend them, i decided to sit and have a small conversations with them (it won’t hurted, i think).

They started the conversations by saying that they were christians too, and they asked me like this

How to get back to christ? Which way we have to take?

And you know what? Suddenly i have an INSTANT COMPASSION for them!!! Before that i was totally freaked out!!! What i mean with Instant Compassion here is that i have such a deep, deep love and care toward them!!! Which i didn’t have right before! Holy spirit just putted wisdoms and word in my mouth to deal with them.

And then i asked them if i could pray for them, and the said yes. And i prayed for them! My prayer was that God loves them more than the way i feel for them. I love them because of their genuine heart, warm persons and that they are so friendly. I also prayed to God to heal their heart, give them a new heart of flesh. Before i finished my prayer, they’re started to cry and weep. At those moment, i felt that there is a deep, deep need for love in their life. Wanting to be respect and treat like a normal people and not like a freak. Yeah, i felt that that’s what they need.

After the prayer, i said goodbye to them. I hugged them, big hug! And they said to me “God the father, the son and the holy spirit bless you brother!” It was so encouraging, even just a simple word but means a lot to me. Seeing that they feel so blessed was made my day!!!

I am so excited for them and can’t hardly wait for the outreach to come!!!

I just want to let you all know that i will be leaving to manila on 27th of december 2008. It would be great if you could put me and my outreach team in your prayer. Please pray for:

• Super strong God’s presence in every moment of outreach.
• Breakthrough after breakthrough.
• Unity and love in our team.
• Protections and healths.
• God’s provisions.

Thanks guys, have a wonderful days in the end of 2008!

Blessing from Perth, Ericko.

I am loved…

Wednesday morning, 17 December 2008 – 10.00am.

All of us, the MC DTS students was having a prayer time with the YWAM Perth’s Base Director, Shirley Brownhill. She intentionally asked us couple days before to give thought about stuff that God put in our heart, our struggles and so on.

I got the 2nd turn, my friend Andy Chee from Singapore got the 1st turn.

My struggle was, I was strucked by the teaching about relationships. Our speaker said that,

How much we love others is depend on how much we love ourself

And I said to myself on the other day,

Do i love my self? I am not sure that i love myself. How do you define loving yourself?

When my turns came in, Shirley prayed for me.. And i was crying and crying eventhough she hasn’t spoke any word.

And then she spoke to me (as far as i remembered),

Father carries you on His shoulder, and from now on you could see the way he see. You could see the decisions that he makes. You’ll be like a little boy who holding on to Father’s head.

Father God want you to promise Him one thing, that you will love yourself everyday.

The last sentence from God was, “You are LOVED, and now you can love.”

And..

I wrote a song about this revelation..It goes like this,

I AM LOVED. Written by Ericko Tandayu

VERSE

You carry me on your shoulder, Father. I cling on you, holding on to, Your love.

PRE CHORUS

I can see what you see, I can feel what you feel, I can see through your heart.

CHORUS

Now i know what’s love about,

Now i see the way you see,

Now i feel what’s in your heart,

You loved me, you loved me

BRIDGE

I am loved, i am loved, i am loved by you (repeat 2 x)

I love you lord, i love you lord, i love you lord, i love you lord (repeat 2x)

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YOU ARE LOVED, therefore YOU CAN LOVE…

LED by the SPIRIT.

At YWAM Perth we have a weekly activities called “Evangelism Night”. You can tell what is it all about by looking at it’s name.

Yeah, we are doing evangelism every week to a particular places. We learn to be an effective persons to share the gospel to the communitiy of Perth.

The Evangelism night is held every thursday night. Last Thursday we went to the Cottesloe Beach (i forgot it’s name). After we arrived, all of us were 11 people. They splitted us into 5 team, 2 persons per team, except mine 3 persons

We prayed before we start walking through the beach, asking God for directions. And then i felt so strongly in my heart that God wanted me to go LEFT. I followed it.

Turn Left

After we walked 25 metres, God spoke to me again saying

“Wait!” 

Right at the 1st bench that we passed.

But i didn’t stop and kept walking. We sat on the next bench after.

Bench

Not long after that, God said “You are waiting on the wrong positions. Go back”

We went back to the 1st bench and wait. I hates waiting, and i was being impatient. So, we prayed about it.

Right after we prayed, a man and his cute dog came to talk to us (i mean, a lot of people walks on th beach). It turned out that he is an atheis. We talked and talked, sharing about life. He is single and 50 yrs old something. WOW!

It was a good conversations that we had. He’s a good persons with warm and tender heart. It seems like he has been talked to christian people a lot of time about God and christianity. He said to us “I feel i was born as an atheis. It was meant to be”

We shared about our fith to God and how we ended up believing him. But, yeah he seemed having no problem at all. So after we said good bye, i kept praying for this guy,named Brad, so that God will reveal himself to Brad.

One thing i learned (again) was

It’s not about me who saved people, it’s about my obedience and availability to be use and be led by the spirit. The result is his idea.

…………………..to be continued

Financial BREAKTHROUGH!!!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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My G.O.D is B.I.G,

My G.O.D is B.I.G,

My G.O.D is B.I.G,

My GOD is BIG!!!

I got my money for school fee and outreach fee!!! All of it AU$7,100!!! And also i got EXTRA money AU$1,000!!!

ALSO, my brother, Michael got his money tooo AU$ 7,800. But you know what, God is AMAZING!!! Someone just gave Michael AU$ 1,600 although he’s already got all his money!!!! OH WOW!!!

We would like to say thank you to all of the supporters and friends who has prayed and supported us, may God bless your obedience abundantly

By the way, week 8 and 9 has passed by….. On week 8 we learned about Spiritual Warfare, Dean Sherman was teaching our class through 10 yrs old video..It was interesting lectures. This guy really got something to share indeed! One things that stucked in my heart was “Jesus died to TOOK BACK the AUTHORITY that DEVIL HAS TAKEN from MAN. And Jesus gave the AUTHORITY back to us, man.”

And then week 9 came along. It’s all about “Submission and Authority”

On this session i learned to gave away my right and submitting my life to Jesus COMPLETELY. Cause when it comes to life (family,  marriage, etc) i began to DENIED Jesus as Lord and King in my life. I acted as though he wasn’t exist in my life. For example, i have such BIG DESIRE in my heart to see all my family members got saved and discipled in Jesus. And do you know what i did? I was acting like i’m the only who could do the job, saving all my family members and did not give Jesus any room at all for being Lord in my life. It was sooooooo HARD to let go my RIGHT and completely SUBMITTED to Him in this area. BUT, i MADE IT through!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! God’s grace is always  NEW EVERY MORNING!!! And on the last day of the lectures, we made a commitment to ENSLAVE our life to Jesus as a SLAVE  by taking off our sandals and shoes (because SLAVE on Jesus’s time was barefoot) the whole day!!! So after we the lectures finished we wondering around shoeless

There were some interesting story during this week. God spoke to me to give away ALL MY EXTRA MONEY which is AU$1,000 to someone on my outreach team. I was so sad at first because i thought i will use those money for buying my NEW LAPTOP. But then i remembered that God HIMSELF wanted to give me a new LAPTOP, so i decided to believe HIM instead doing my own way. I gave away my money with JOY

Not only money, God told me to give away my watch also to someone in other DTS class. By the time i was about to gave away my watch, someone just came around and gave me HIS WATCH!!! WOW!!! I was shocked!!! At rushed i gave my watch as soon as possible. And then the Lord spoke to me also to give away my EXTERNAL HARDISK to one of my friends also. Pheeeew, i was saving this external hardisk of mine for my new laptop also

But i learned to be obedience. So i gave it away. You know what? by the time i gave it away, i felt SO MUCH JOY in my HEART!!!

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Friends and supporters, my journey is not over yet. In fact it will keep going and going no matter what. So, i will need your pray to keep me on track on this journey. Here are couple thing that you could pray for me:

• EVERLASTING Personal breakthrough and revelation over and over in our life (Ericko and Michael).
• Health.
• Wisdom.
• Character development (integrity, responsibility, anger management, etc).
• God’s provision (money, foods, clothes, etc)

So, that’s my story so far. I will keep you all updated as soon as possible on the next week.

Blessing from Perth,

Ericko and Michael