Counseling Sheet

Agatha M. Thrash, M.D.
Preventive Medicine

"The truth for this time, the third angel's message, is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, meaning with increasing power, as we approach the great final test. This test must come to the churches in connection with the true medical missionary work, a work that has the Great Physician to dictate and preside in all it comprehends." 10 MR 314

"Satan is to make most powerful efforts for the mastery in the last great conflict. Fundamental principles will be brought out, and decisions made in regard to them. Skepticism is prevailing everywhere. Ungodliness abounds. The faith of individual members of the church will be tested as though there were not another person in the world." 7 BC 983

"God gave the light on health reform, and those who rejected it, rejected God." Series B, #6, page 31

"The victory of our triumphant Head over the most subtle temptations during His forty days' fast, and the glorious promise of reigning with Him in His throne, on condition that we overcome as He overcame, establish the fact that one of the highest attainments in the Christian life is to control appetite, and that, without this victory, all hope of heaven is vain." CTBH 206

"The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have had moral power to gain the victory over every other temptation of Satan." 3T 491, 492

"When we learn the power of His word, we shall not follow the suggestions of Satan in order to obtain food or to save our lives. Our only questions will be, What is God's command? and what His promise? Knowing these, we shall obey the one, and trust the other." DA 121

"If man will cherish the light that God in mercy gives him upon health reform, he may be sanctified through the truth, and fitted for immortality." 3T 162

"...that He might humble thee, and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end." Deut. 8:2, 3, 16

"Keep your garments unspotted from the world. Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Temptations may be all around you, but you are not compelled to enter into them. You may obtain strength from Christ to stand unsullied amid the pollutions of this corrupt age." 2T 49, 50

"Our greatest strength is realized when we feel and acknowledge our weakness. The greatest loss which any ... can suffer is the loss of earnestness and persevering zeal to do right, the loss of strength to resist temptation, the loss of faith in the principles of truth and duty." 5T 70

"God's people will not find their safety in working miracles, for Satan would counterfeit any miracle that might be worked. God's tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living Word - 'It is written.' This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely." 2 SM 55