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By Richard Gazowsky

On July 30, 2007, I wrote my first email to 50 of you. There are now 4,200 receiving this email, without advertising or purchasing of email lists. This is just a phenomenon that has happened. When I wrote my first email, which was on the subject of “No money in the bank again”, I was afraid that no one would read it because it was blatantly honest to the point of being embarrassing. I have discovered however, that there are a few of us who actually like things being told the way they are. Those of you who know me realize that I am trying to introduce a subject that is going to be hard for me to talk about, but the Lord said this was the time to share, so buckle your seat-belt.

For fourteen years I have led the company, Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks, as an arrow aimed at piercing the media industry. This has brought me into the halls and executive offices of the largest media companies in the world, and has made me acutely aware of what it is that drives the current media waves. To be honest with you, I have never known clearly what God’s counter-measure would be. It is only recently that the Lord began to speak to me concerning this. He made it clear that He was going to show me only two or three steps ahead, and that I would not know what the final product would look like. This is a difficult business plan to present to a corporate board and business partners who are in an industry completely run on predictions and estimated outcomes. I am able to provide none of these normal business tools.

The first blessing was that God led me to a group of investors, 23 to be exact, each of them independently wealthy and able to give a secured investment (meaning they can afford to give without an expected return). When I first met with these investors you can imagine how shocked and overjoyed I was to hear that they had been given the same word of the Lord, that they would only know where they were going one a step at a time. The amazing part of this story is their companies make products everyone uses daily. Elijah felt he was the only one not bowing to Baal when the Lord pointed out to him, “There are 7,000 in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” The multi-levels of support teams that God put around me were literally walking as Abraham did, “He went forth and knew not whither he went.” Now let me show you how far I’ve gotten on this journey.

Seven years ago God told us to focus on making a blockbuster film that now has a 200 million dollar budget. We began script development and preproduction testing on new cinema concepts, and since then we have seen technological breakthroughs. These were not however, the core directions that the Lord was leading us in, even though there were 14 of them. The core direction was in story development and what a radical change God introduced us to. I am not allowed to share the details of the process, for the Lord told us to keep this a secret, but He has literally turned our concept of story development up-side-down.

The second pathway that God has been leading us down has been that of the communication media, which we traditionally call “news”. The first step that God told me was to cancel our satellite contracts and close down everything, all television shows and productions in the daily media market. We were in effect publishing absolutely nothing and this condition lasted for years. Then the Lord spoke to me very strongly on the first day of 2008, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Don’t do anything unless I initiate it and don’t stop anything unless I end it.” I realized that God was wanting total and complete control of how this process would be developed. He took me to the Santa Monica beach in prayer and told me to say nothing for four hours and just to watch the waves. It literally took me that long to quit trying to figure out what I was supposed to be looking at or searching for. Finally, when my mind was at rest, God said, “Notice how every wave refreshes and washes the footprints away, and the beach is made new again. This is the way that I want my media to be.” At the time, the only part of this message I could understand was that God apparently wanted stuff to be fresh, but as I have progressed on this journey I have discovered that the message runs even deeper.

Subsequently, in the local church that I pastor, young people have begun to have dreams about huge ocean waves hitting the city of San Francisco. Actually, there have been 21 of these dreams. I also had two dreams concerning these monster waves. I realized that water represented the Word of God, and that His vibrant and fresh word is getting ready to pour upon us in an uncontrollable way. At the same time, God spoke to me out of the blue to have the young people of our church come forward and share in our 3:00 pm services if they had a word from God. I was amazed as their words became more prophetic and accurate, until one day one of the youth saw that a volcano was going to explode in South America on the following Friday. When we all read about it in the news it completely blew us away, but then God turned things up to an even higher level.

In a dream I was visited by a blonde female angel with dramatic wings. She handed me a USB key and showed me, in the air in front of me, that there was a large white blank spot in a huge digital stream that was flowing in front of me. She said this key was my breakthrough and that it was the secret to opening up the new media that God was releasing upon the earth. The first step that she mentioned was for our website, GNXNews.com, to begin releasing prophetic words and news at the same time everyday, which is 6:00AM PST, and that we should release the prophetic words that are given at our 3:00PM service through Twitter Instant Messaging. The next day the Lord had me read the cover story on Time Magazine. To my pleasant surprise the story was about Twitter and how it is now changing peoples’ communication with each other. The author of the Time article had gone to a seminar on communications, and even though there were just a few people in the meeting, they were joined by many others through Twitter receiving SMS messages on their cell phones. They, in turn, had the ability to respond by just typing, (in our case it would be “@WYSI”,) the call sign in their return message on the phone number 40404 (If you do this you must join Twitter first for us to receive it). I suddenly saw in the Time Magazine story what God was trying to show me. We could literally link up, at no cost, our young prophets daily to anyone in the world that has a cell phone. Within a few days we were actively using this service. To my shock, ten minutes after we hooked the system up we received a request for a prophetic word from 11,000 miles away, in Europe, and the phenomenon has continued. (Click Here to read the Time Magazine article)

The next day I had a dream that I was standing above a beach 40 miles long, and the vision was epic. To my left was a flat desert that went to the horizon, but when I looked to my right, instead of there being an ocean, there was a huge wall that was 1,000 feet high at the waters edge. At the top of the wall that went to the horizon, there were waterfalls. Water was trickling down these waterfalls in waves, and I did not understand what was causing the waves until God lifted me up above the wall’s height. Behind the wall was a huge ocean being held back from the desert. The Lord said, “I have called you to break through this wall. That ocean represents the prophetic word that I am wanting to release upon the nations of the world, about the good things I am going to do for mankind. Life is coming to every desert.”

It was at this point that I realized how much God really wants to say. When I was young and in a pentecostal church, prophecy was usually preceded by someone speaking in tongues, and then the prophecy was interpreted in King James English. When a prophet would come to our church back then, it was usually an older man who gave a mixture of correction, judgement and sprinklings of good news. As I matured I began to realize that life experiences and rejections had caused many of those that had the gift and ability to see in the spiritual realm to see dark things and express them, even though they might not be the plans of God. Something new is happening with these innocent youth; they have no agendas, no religious traditions to reinforce and when they see in the spirit it is just pure hope, faith and love from God. Wow! Even I have a hard time seeing things that “good”. What amazes me is how accurate these words from the Lord are and now God, through technology, is giving us the ability to share it with the world. When the youth started prophesying at our church I had wondered if ten or fifteen words were too much. Now have been literally hundreds of words which are turning into a tidal wave that is becoming more and more refreshing.

Even in the Lord’s prayer, Jesus said, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” So, there is a “force” of God’s word that He is wanting to release upon the earth. As a businessman in charge of a media company, I wondered if the unprecedented release of prophetic words could even be a viable media subject, as I take these things very seriously. My family and I wanted to get an “out-of-the-blue” confirmation from the Lord whether this direction of releasing the prophetic word was a true rock-solid business plan. I opened my Bible randomly (it was upside-down) and turned it right side up to read. The left side of the page was blank and the right side of the page had these verses from St. John (from The Message Bible), “The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one. Everything was created through him; nothing – not one thing! – came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by.”

I am not expecting what I am trying to share to be fully understandable, because a tidal wave of God’s prophetic word is about the only way we can describe it. The question still remains: If Jesus said, “I can only do what I see the Father doing,” and you and I are to be just like Jesus, then how are we going to have the Father fill our day with activity if we are not plugged into his ever vibrant, fresh, and daily words? So, God, “How much do You want to say?” This is the new media.

Richard Gazowsky pastors a church in San Francisco called The Voice of Pentecost, and is also president of Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks. He has directed the films, “Guardians” and “The Roman Trilogy.”