Maverick Pearl Remedies
The Background
Ciao, bella!
My name is Danielle & I’m so happy you’re here 🦋
I created Maverick Pearl because I tried healing and improving myself many times with the things of this world and it flat out did not work.
From yoga to weed to New Age meditation to Pharma pills to Vedic astrology, I dabbled in various starry-eyed concepts to no avail.
At first these methods seemed innocent and well-meaning, but the benefits were fleeting.
Worse, the origins of these practices aren’t rooted in God.
Yet they became my god. And I still felt empty.
I was putting my faith and trust in systems and feelings that were dropping me lower and lower.
I learned a hard truth: when God is not the direct source of healing, all other methods are merely a vain resource.
It took me years to realize true healing happens when we draw from the wellspring of God, and God alone.
Extra resources may accompany our healing journey, but the power and love of God need to take root first.
If we aren’t rooted in God’s love, we can’t share our good fruit with others.
The Birth
God knows I love research, writing, and the Bible, and so Maverick Pearl Remedies was freebirthed through many sessions of supplication and prayer.
God called me to create a ministry that imparts maverick pearls of wisdom to inculcate, renew, and regenerate the body, mind, and spirit in Christ Jesus.
He showed me what religion can’t: healing takes place when God reveals to us what’s in our own heart.
The ugly, nasty, sinful parts of our heart. How our trauma, upbringing, and life circumstances shape us and turn our hearts cold.
God discloses the moral condition of our heart. And conducts the spiritual heart surgery that only He can!
“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26
This is all Glory to God and His plan for not just my life, but to you who are called according to His purpose! God is working it all out for your good (Romans 8:28).
I pray this site blesses you with Scripture-inspired words that kickstart your journey into learning and healing with Yahweh.
The Framework
Maverick (n): non-conforming, independent, unconventional
Pearl (n): biblical symbol for wisdom and the Kingdom of God
Remedies (v): methods of healing, something that corrects
The Beginning
In 2014 I lost someone dear to me. I had many questions, and I wanted answers.
I came searching for the truth about God, heaven, humans, animals, the earth, and why we exist if nothing in life ever feels okay.
These questions led me to the Bible.
So I began reading.
I began praying.
I began researching.
And suddenly, I could feel God’s presence.
He knew I would come searching at this exact time in my life and He pulled me in real close.
God lifted the rose-colored veil that was shielding my eyes from seeing the truth all these years.
The problem was, at first I didn’t fully lean into God’s goodness and love and help.
Still trying to do things my own way; I only let God into some avenues of my life while I still controlled many others.
Reading God’s word was what I loved most, but I became exactly what the book of James warns against: I was a hearer and not a doer.
Because of this, I took on major life decisions alone. Without God’s guidance.
Knowingly going against the word of God and making my life much more difficult and complicated in the process.
And if you know, then you know how the enemy works.
He was in my ear as soon as I got saved. I listened and believed his many lies, allowing his accusatory jabs to seer my mind and beat me down.
Satan’s favorite thing is to manipulate and twist God’s truths like he did to Eve. He will bring up your past even though we are forgiven by a loving and merciful God (Psalm 103:8), so you bet he didn’t miss a beat with me.
Not to mention, the enemy, as well as culture at large, wants us to remain unforgiving to those who’ve wronged us! Demonic forces will use both our own sins and the sins others committed against us to gain access into our lives. Matter-of-fact, this is exactly how the enemy gains territory.
Coming into agreement with his lies gives the enemy an open door to our spiritual, mental, and physical temple (Ephesians 4:27). Satan knows Scripture, and he knows unforgiveness hinders our spiritual walk (Mark 11:25-26).
I was focusing too heavily on the resounding pain of my past, even my present circumstances. It seemed like Satan gaining ground in my life was impossible to puncture.
Except I wasn’t alone. I had the chief healer and helper of all the universe by my side. The one who is going to crush the serpent’s head when He returns to earth. I have Jesus as my bestie, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and God Himself. What a heavenly trinity of divine grace.
Rise Up
A couple years ago I watched the show Maid on Netflix. And there is one scene I will never forget.
The main character Alex (Margaret Qualley) is mentally and psychologically abused by her alcoholic boyfriend, with whom they share a child together named Maddy.
In one climactic scene, Alex is sitting on a beaten-up couch analyzing the true extent of the situation befallen her.
Alex watches both her callous father and abusive boyfriend get drunk together, with neither having a care in the world for her or Maddy’s wellbeing.
She then begins to internalize herself sinking deep into the couch. As if falling down a black hole with no way to dig herself out.
That scene is all too relatable to me. I know this feeling, and maybe you do too. When I got to this point t there was one Bible verse that popped up when I needed to see it most:
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 26:19
No one was coming to save me, because Jesus already did.
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12
The situation seemed impossible to dig myself out of because it totally was, IF I did it all on my own. But God was saying, Arise, take up your bed, and walk! So I got my butt up and best believe I haven’t looked back since.
The enemy wages a spiritual war against us in the triad of body, mind, and spirit. And frankly, we sometimes do this to ourselves without any help from fallen entities (the devil doesn’t get all the credit!)
You can imagine how much this battle wears us down and takes a clawing toll on our physical and spiritual bodies when we fight alone. We can let it slowly wreck us or allow God to make His strength perfect in our weakness against it (2 Corinthians 12:9).
God does all the heavy lifting while we do the trusting.
When we rest, trust, and hope in God’s power to lift us, we soar. 🦅