SHOW ME YOUR GLORY

SHOW ME YOUR GLORY is a wonderful documentary that highlights the miraculous experiences of eight people who had their lives transformed by an intervention by Christ. First, their life before the Lord was explained, before their life-changing interaction with the Lord is recalled. Then, the people explain how their lives have never been the same since. In between these testimonies are religious experts who weigh in on philosophical and theological questions that naturally arise when discussing miracles, such as the question of evil and why some scientists and other people think science claims to discredit miracles.

The documentary opens with one of the most radical transformations presented, that of Afshin, a man who grew up in the Muslim faith. Afshin even joined the terrorist group Hezbollah, working as a man who punished and killed those found sharing the Christian Gospel. His story is reenacted at the start, as he and three other men kidnap a family before hanging the father for his Christian faith.

Afshin was on a dangerous path after leaving his home country to convert more people worldwide to Islam, when he got arrested in Malaysia while possessing 30 fake passports. While in prison, he felt a demonic oppression come upon him and begin to choke him. Then, when he cried out to Allah, it only got worse.

However, after a short time, the choking feeling went away as he was visited by a man that was shining like a white light. The man told Afshin he was forgiven, and Afshin felt this was true in his spirit. He then asked the man who he was, and the man responded that he was Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the life. Jesus then showed Afshin a vision of hundreds of people and asked Afshin to preach the Christian Gospel to them and help them come to know God.

The next story told is the story of the Hodges family who had a tragedy strike after their 4-year- old son, Cooper, was stricken with cancer. After testing, the doctors found it would be terminal. The family, however, didn’t lose faith and continually praised the Lord throughout the process. Many working in the hospital began to know the Lord through the actions of this family. In the end, Cooper passed away from the cancer, but the family believes his time in the hospital was a miracle nonetheless because of all the people he, and they, were able to impact.

After the Cooper family’s story came the story of Sarah, a woman who fell into a deep depression after her family moved to New Mexico while she was in middle school. To cope, she began to drink heavily. Drinking caused her to become very promiscuous, which she would remain throughout high school, having two abortions, one at age 16 and one at age 19. To deal with the pain of her actions, she turned to hard drugs and became addicted to heroin, eventually becoming a prostitute to fuel her drug problem.

The years of using hard drugs, however, eventually began to take a toll on her body. Sarah developed an autoimmune disorder that caused her to be in constant pain, which caused her to take even more drugs to cope. During one trip, she had an out-of-body experience which caused her to go to Heaven, where she met Jesus. He hugged her and gave her peace, and she begged to stay. However, He told her He had a mission for her on earth: to spread the Gospel through her testimony. Since then, Sarah has been drug free, turned around her life and now uses her story to share the Gospel.

Stephany was the next person to share her testimony. At 22-yearsold, she was set up to be very successful, but her visions of the future came tumbling down when she was diagnosed with five tumors in her neck. The doctors said it was cancer, and she only had six months to live, with nothing they could do.

Later, Stephany was invited to church by a coworker who could tell she was down. She accepted the offer and enjoyed a three hour service. Toward the end of the service, a woman she had never met before came up to her and began praying over her neck. Immediately, Stephany felt something change and knew she had been healed. When she returned to the doctor, they found that not only did she not have any tumors, but there was no sign any tumors had been in her neck at all.

Next came Duane Miller, a career preacher who felt like his life was over when a pressure came upon his neck, making it extremely difficult to speak. When straining himself, the best he could do was a whisper. The doctors had no explanation for why this was happening. As a result, they had no treatment plan. Duane felt he was letting everyone down because he could hardly speak and thus became extremely depressed.

Three years after the affliction first came upon him, Duane decided to end his own life and brought a gun to his head. However, he didn’t pull the trigger, and to this day he doesn’t know why. That Sunday, he was preaching, when all of a sudden, his voice came back to him as he read a verse from the Bible.

The next miracle came from Finley, a young boy who fractured his neck and spine after falling headfirst while climbing a tree. He was in extreme pain, though was discharged from the hospital after a visit because there was nothing doctors could do. While at home, his condition only seemed to get worse, and Finley’s parents prepared to take him back to the doctors. Just before they loaded him in the car, they prayed over him, and, after throwing up, he was immediately better. A few days later, the doctors took a scan and found no evidence of broken bones, even though they had the x-rays from three days earlier showing bad fractures.

Next came Christopher, a man involved in the occult. He practiced witchcraft often and enjoyed the power it gave him, though demonic oppression also left him depressed and suicidal. One day, after performing a ritual in the forest, he was blinded by a light that he instinctively knew was Jesus. Jesus told Christopher he would still be forgiven and turn from his ways. Christopher, however, decided to continue on his path.

Soon after, a girl from school invited Christopher to church, and he accepted. When he arrived, he could see people connected to the Holy Spirit and understood that he truly could change his ways and start a new life. He did just that, and, decades later, he now lives a joyful life with the Lord.

Finally came the testimony of Amelia, a woman addicted to drugs, selling her body and living with her drug dealer boyfriend who gave her unlimited drugs. One day, she was getting a tattoo that was intentionally blasphemous. As she sat at the tattoo table, she was suddenly struck with a vision of the Hell her life was leading her. After that terrifying vision, she was met with a vision of Heaven, where she met Jesus. Jesus then began to show up in her life in unexpected ways and she felt the hole in her heart begin to be filled by Him. All this caused Amelia to turn away from her former life and start to live for the Lord.

These eight testimonies provide a look into the innumerable ways the Lord touches our lives every day. While not every interaction is as radical, they are just as important and point toward His care for His creation.

SHOW ME YOUR GLORY is a well-made documentary that highlights just how much of an impact one moment with the Lord can have on a person’s life. It shows how people from a variety of walks can become on-fire Christians who live solely to glorify God and spread his message. It also reveals how a materialistic view of science can’t explain everything in this life as the Lord is not constrained by the same limitations we are. Overall, the documentary Glorifies the Lord and proclaims his Gospel to the masses. The movie’s message and basic themes are wonderful and Christocentric, but SHOW ME YOUR GLORY also touches on mature topics that could be too intense for older children and younger teenagers.