Christian evangelist Mario Murillo’s parting words to a large audience gathered at the new Radiant Church in Colorado Springs a few weeks ago for an early look at his first film delivered a promise and a warning.

The ministry he formed decades ago while attending the University of California at Berkeley will return to Colorado Springs at an undetermined date and location with a larger-than-ever tent crusade, Murillo announced as he left the stage.

The promise: There will be soul winnings and miraculous physical healings.

The warning: “Look out, Colorado. Revival is at the door. I believe it’s going to end in a moral awakening … done in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Murillo predicts that the faith and power of the spiritual revolution that manifests under a mammoth white tent that will seat 7,000 people will revert the Centennial State to Republican domination.

“It’s going to be a revival, and I believe it’s going to flip the political state of Colorado from blue to red because of the souls that will be saved under that tent,” he said.

Furthermore, Murillo thinks his new documentary, “I Am Living Proof,” produced by Colorado filmmaker Shane Gilbert, will convert souls and produce healings among audiences across the nation.

The film will be released in hundreds of theaters nationwide March 9, including Colorado Springs.

Locally, AMC Chapel Hills will have showings March 9, 10 and 12, and Cinemark theaters will have a screening on March 9 and add more based on demand.

Individual and group tickets went on sale last week at https://www.iconicreleasing.com/events/i-am-living-proof/tickets/.

“What if in the middle of my film some people jumped up from their wheelchairs and started running in the theater?” Murillo said. “Satan is not ready for healings to happen in 400 theaters; let the healing spread.”

After the film’s inaugural showing here Jan. 13, Murillo pointed out at least one woman in the audience who he said was healed of physical ailments that night.

The second campus of Radiant Church at 8630 Scarborough Drive in Colorado Springs was selected to launch the documentary because it traces the paths of three residents who say their bodies were rid of illnesses during Murillo’s first tent revival in July 2022, on the same spot where the church now sits. It was vacant land then.

The weekend before the film’s debut, Murillo attended the dedication for the new church.

Murillo had not scheduled a stop in Colorado Springs for his Living Proof Tent Revival in the summer of 2022, but pastor Kelly Hudnall, who leads Radiant’s new north campus with her husband, pastor Todd Hudnall, had said she felt directed by God to track down Murillo and ask him to consider bringing his traveling event to Colorado Springs.

He agreed, and the three-day revival drew 5,000 attendees, organizers said.

Gilbert, a teacher at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, told Murillo she’d like to produce a documentary that shows how some attendees’ lives changed dramatically because of their spiritual and physical experiences at the crusade.

The documentary is directed by Bob Maddux, who in addition to doing film work is founding pastor of Trinity Church San Diego, an author and co-founder of Project Compassion, a medical mission organization.

Crews followed each of the three residents around in their daily lives for a year and interviewed them, their friends, neighbors and families, Gilbert said in a post-premiere interview.

“It’s taken a long time, but we had amazing people that I had worked with before doing sound and everything, and it came together beautifully,” she said. “People worked on the film because it touched their heart.”

“I knew the movie was going to be good, but I didn’t know it was going to be that good,” said Todd Hudnall after the lights came back on in his church’s worship center, and people were clapping wildly and some crying.

The subjects’ emotional stories that at first seem unbelievable become real as they unfold.

There’s Mary Ercoli, a wife and mother with small children, Briahnna “Bri” Ranieri, a recent college graduate, and Steve Conner, who thought God was a phony and didn’t want anything to do with religion.

They describe their previous health struggles related to injuries and inexplainable maladies that produced debilitating pain, suffering, anguish and the desire to stop living.

Each claims to have been cured during the tent revival and attribute the hand of Jesus, who biblical accounts say performed various healings of bodies and minds when he walked the Earth more than 2,000 years ago.

The film also presents verification from doctors that the subjects no longer were sick with their former conditions.

Ranieri said she was barely able to walk and felt near death when her brother took her to the revival, after she sought out prayer at a Colorado Springs church and came across a flyer advertising the event.

Ranieri was unable to eat, her weight had dropped to 95 pounds, she was weak and had constant aches, pains, rashes and other problems that doctors couldn’t figure out. She’d tried mind-over-matter practices such as Shamanism but said nothing worked.

The dream life she had been living descended into hell, as for seven years she could not take care of herself as her physical condition deteriorated.

“I was desperate,” Ranieri said.

As Murillo urged 2022 tent revival attendees to come forward to accept Christ in their hearts and be made anew, he saw Ranieri struggling in front of the stage and suddenly declared the monstrous thing growing inside her was dying by the power of God in that moment, and she would receive “a total healing.”

Murillo told her the Holy Spirit was “taking the expiration label off” her body that day, in the name of Jesus.

Ranieri said as she sank to the ground sobbing and shaking, and others in the audience lifted their hands over her body in prayer, that she felt “an external force of love” shooting straight into her heart.

“The love was pouring through my body, I saw myself in the womb, through my childhood and adulthood, and Jesus showed me he had been protecting me my entire life,” she said.

“It was just me and Jesus, and I felt the illness being released out of my body.”

The morning after, Ranieri said she felt “so new inside.” The pain began disappearing and she resume eating again without any trouble.

“I’m normal now,” she said.

A friend told Ranieri she had a dream about her eating cake in a meadow, and the friend thought that meant Ranieri was going to die and go to heaven.

Months later, Ranieri told her friend, “I think I’m healed.”

The thought in people’s minds who hear such testimonies is that maybe if this person or that person is healed, they themselves can be healed, too, Christian author Wayde Goodall said in the film.

Colorado Springs resident Gloria Romans said after the premiere that she had served as an usher at the tent revival and witnessed the healings of the documentary subjects.

“That was not fake,” she said. “You could see the glory of God on their faces. You could see God’s word flowing through them.”

Resident Mary Sherpa, who also attended the 2022 revival and the premiere, called the movie “amazing,” “moving” and “professional.”

“To see nearly three years later the progress in their lives, it’s still happening — what God had planned for them,” she said. “They just fell into God’s arms.”

Murillo said he hopes thousands of people will find hope, healing and miracles from the compelling film.

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