Ariana Grande, "manifesting," and the path to a transformational Thanksgiving
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
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Ariana Grande is the latest to discuss her “weird” manifestation gift, a trend that’s been growing over the past fifteen years as people seek to find the god powers within. In The Daily Article for November 24, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison discusses this strategy for personal control in a world that feels out of control, reminding us who truly belongs on the throne of our hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.1 | Ariana Grande made her Broadway debut at the age of 15, starred in Nickelodeon's |
| 0:26.4 | Victorious two years later, and has released six studio albums, five of which peaked at number |
| 0:32.9 | one in the Billboard 200 albums chart. |
| 0:36.5 | She is also the newest judge on NBC's hit show, The Voice. Now she's |
| 0:41.5 | in the news for a different reason. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, |
| 0:47.0 | she revealed that she has had a weird manifestation gift her entire life. In case manifestation |
| 0:53.6 | is an unfamiliar concept for you, I'll let Oprah Winfrey |
| 0:57.8 | explain. You control a lot by your thoughts, and we control a lot by our join thoughts, by what I and we |
| 1:06.5 | believe. When I started to figure that out for myself, I became careful of what I think and what I |
| 1:13.0 | asked for. I was like, what else can I do? What else can I manifest? Because I have seen it work. |
| 1:20.9 | I have seen it happen over and over again. On this Thanksgiving Eve, it can be hard to be grateful in a fallen world filled with |
| 1:32.0 | tragedy and suffering. For example, we now know that four of the five people killed in the |
| 1:38.3 | Waukesha Christmas Parade attack on Sunday were part of a group of older women called the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies. |
| 1:46.2 | The attack is just one example of a growing trend of vehicles used as weapons for mass killing. |
| 1:53.4 | In other news, Washington, D.C. has recorded its 200th homicide of the year, a mark not seen |
| 2:00.2 | since 2003. |
| 2:01.6 | Dozens of San Francisco area stores and pharmacies have been hit by mobs of |
| 2:07.6 | smash-and-grab looters, and a bus carrying North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames in Bulgaria |
| 2:15.6 | before daybreak yesterday, killing at least 45 people, |
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