OptiHealth Institute

Orientation to Optimal Health

The word "OptiHealth" is both a word-smash of "Optimal Health" and an acronym for:
  • Our
  • Promise
  • To
  • Integrate
  • Health
  • Education
  • And
  • Lifestyle
  • Therapies
  • Honestly
We are an independent Health Ministry Support Service for Seventh-day Adventists. We believe the biblical teaching on health and temperance is the right-arm of the gospel. Through a personal experience of therapeutic lifestyle change by faith, people can discover and share the practical healing and saving power of Jesus Christ.
Testimonies, Volume 7, page 62:
  • We have come to a time when every member of the church should take hold of the medical missionary work.
  • The world is a "lazar house" (hospital) filled with victims of both physical and spiritual disease.
  • Everywhere people are perishing for lack of knowledge of the truths that have been committed to us.
  • The members of the church are in need of an awakening, that they may realize their responsibility to impart these truths.
  • Those who have been enlightened by the truth are to be light bearers to the world.
  • To hide our light at this time is to make a terrible mistake.
  • The message to God’s people today is: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:1)
The OptiHealth Institute is an online education, training, and networking platform for SDA Health Ministry Volunteers and Healthcare Professionals who want to help each other learn, apply, and share the Adventist Health Message for the saving of souls in these last days.
We use the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy as our knowledge base and implementation guide.
  • The words spoken to Israel are true today of those who recover health of body or health of soul. "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”” (Exodus 15:26)
  • The desire of God for every human being is expressed in the words, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John 1:2)
  • He [God] it is who “forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies. (Psalm 103:3-4)
  • Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance into many homes...Nothing will open doors for the truth like evangelistic medical missionary work. This will find access to hearts and minds, and will be a means of converting many to the truth. -- Evangelism, 513 ​
  • Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance into many homes...Nothing will open doors for the truth like evangelistic medical missionary work. This will find access to hearts and minds, and will be a means of converting many to the truth. -- Evangelism, 513 ​
  • The Lord would have His people come to Him for their power of healing.​ He will baptize them with His Holy Spirit and fit them for service that will make them a blessing in restoring the spiritual and physical health of those who need healing. -- Counsels on Health, 301 ​
  • There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way that Heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties. -- 2 Selective Messages, 287 
  • Pure air, sunlight, temperance, rest, exercise, proper nutrition, the use of water, and trust in divine power, these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge. -- Counsels on Diet and Food, 301 ​
A Call to Medical Evangelism, page 45:
  • Let the church arise and shine. Let every family practice self-denial, doing all they can to improve their own condition.
  • Those who are truly on the Lord's side will be self-denying and self-sacrificing.
  • They will eat and drink to the glory of God, refusing to corrupt soul and body by intemperance.
  • Then the condition of the church will testify that her light has not been removed.
  • But if church members do not act the part God has assigned them, the movement of health reform will go on without them, and it will be seen that God has removed their candlestick out of its place.
  • Those who refuse to receive and practice the light will be left in the background.
The Saviour in His miracles revealed the power that is continually at work in our behalf to sustain and to heal us. Through the agencies of nature, God is working, day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, to keep us alive, to build up and restore us.
When any part of the body sustains injury, a healing process is at once begun; nature’s agencies are set at work to restore soundness. But the power working through these agencies is the power of God. All life-giving power is from Him. When one recovers from disease, it is God who restores him.
Sickness, suffering, and death are the work of an antagonistic power. Satan is the destroyer; God is the restorer. (John 10:10)
The Certification Courses available through the OptiHealth Institute were developed to teach health ministry volunteers and SDA health professionals how to work in harmony with the will and power of God to bring true health and healing -- and spiritual revival -- to a lost and dying world.
We invite you to join us in our Health Care Revolution by turning back to God for healing of body, mind, and spirit.
As a student (and after certification as an alumnus) of the OptiHealth Institute, you are entrusted to set a Christlike example and to serve others in self-sacrificing (agape) love. As true believers we are the ambassadors of God's Kingdom of Grace and soon to come Kingdom of Glory. Our mission is to proclaim the SDA Health Message as a vital part of Present Truth in preparation for Christ's return.
Our promise is to integrate health education and lifestyle therapies honestly (truthfully, biblically, and with absolutely no quackery or extremism), but the question is into what do we integrate our message for a better way of life?

Answer: Into the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the good news that Jesus heals and saves by empowering us to follow God's moral and natural laws through faith. (Ephesians 2:5-10)
​As disciples of Jesus Christ, we believe the Bible is the holy word of God, and we strive to follow its clear teachings on how to achieve and maintain optimal health (John 10:10) and share God's love and goodness with others. (Luke 10:37)

We believe the purpose of our lives is to live, learn, and love by the faith of Jesus, filled with the power of His Holy Spirit, and doing all for the glory of God our Creator.

We believe Christianity is more than a belief system; it's a relationship and a lifestyle that is in accordance with biblical principles. It is a practical religion that partakes of the divine nature and demonstrates how real health and true happiness results only from a  consecrated life in Christ.

As our personal relationships with Christ have allowed us to experience the wonderful truth in healing and salvation, we commit to a healthful and holy Christian lifestyle and offer ourselves in self-sacrificing service to God for our ongoing sanctification and for the saving of souls. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

The following biblical statements and their supporting Bible verses describe the process of our individual and complete consecration to Christ, and how each of us are to live, learn, and love when serving God and bringing glory to Him by serving others.