The Way Is Love: How to Walk in Love and Forgiveness

By Errington D. Cumberbatch

If Jesus is the Way and Jesus is love and the Bible is truth, having the love of Jesus in our hearts is the way to abundant life on earth as it is in heaven!

Many of us have aspects of our lives we would like to change. Anyone who doubts that need only look at the self-help section of online or brick and mortar bookstores. Since more and more are published each year, its reasonable to assume they dont work at least not for everyone. In the meantime, the one book and person who can help are sometimes overlooked.

Gods Word and His creative power are the answers to healing and transforming your life. In his book, The Way Is Love: How to Walk in Love and Forgiveness, author Errington D. Cumberbatch teaches you how to use the principles found in Gods Word to change your life and your way of thinking. You will learn how to recognize good thoughts versus toxic thoughts and to raise your level of awareness. Youll learn that you can speak things into existence, whether financial shortages or gains, sickness or health, failure or success.

God wants to be involved in all aspects of your life. Cumberbatch will teach you to walk in love and forgiveness and how to program your spirit for success. When you bring faith into your heart, you will see Gods creative power to change the circumstances of your life.

And yet I will show you a still more excellent way,
One that is better by far -
LOVE

? In association with God, the Son and the blessed Holy Spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781491788868

Errington D. Cumberbatch

Pastor Errington Cumberbatch and Jane Cumberbatch are on the Board of Directors of Walking in Wholeness Barbados Inc., which is a Division of Health To You Ministry in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Errington is a Certified Pastoral Counsellor and member of the Canadian College of Christian Counsellors and the Evangelical Association for Education and Evangelism. They were married in Barbados, November 12, 2009 – a second marriage for both of them. They now live in Barbados and have dual citizenship in Canada and Barbados. God called them to bring the Walking in Wholeness teaching to Barbados in 2011 and, in obedience, they came there for the winter of 2011 to see if this was the Will of God. God immediately started opening doors and showed them very quickly that this was His Will for the Ministry. After three winters, God called them to move to Barbados and live for the next three to five years as missionaries. Their goal is teach this course in Barbados, to train and raise up a Barbadian team. This team will take it to the rest of the Caribbean, as prophesied many times by different people who did not know them. God has also laid it on their hearts to reach the youth who seem to be more influenced by the world and are turning their backs on the Creator. They have found favour with the Government of Barbados and have presented a pilot project to them to teach the Walking in Wholeness course in the schools. They are trusting God and are thankful for His faithfulness to provide.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Priority of Love

Chapter 2 My Daddy Loves Me

Chapter 3 Who Broke Your Heart?

Chapter 4 Rose of Sharon

Chapter 5 Keys to Freedom

Chapter 6 Where There Is Love,There Is Life!

Chapter 7 Watch Your Words!

Chapter 8 Direct Connection

Chapter 9 Under Authority

Chapter 10 Love the Sinner?

Chapter 11 The Green-Eyed Monster

Chapter 12 New Way of Walkin'

Resources and Information

About the Author

If Jesus is the way

and Jesus is love

and the Bible is truth,

having the love of Jesus

in our hearts is the way

to abundant life

on earth, as it is in Heaven!

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Love and

Forgiveness

Is the

Way

Preparing for a Love and Forgiveness

Experience and Expanding the Knowledge of God

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That you may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long-suffering with joy.

♥ Colossians 1:10--11 NKJV

In Memory of

Margaret Roberta McIntosh Cumberbatch,

my first love and my first wife,

who supported me during 35 years of marriage

and encouraged me to go to Canada Christian College.

Roberta went home to be with the Lord in November 2008.

Yvonne Cumberbatch, my eldest daughter,

who went home to be with the Lord in November 2013.

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To all of our children, grandchildren, and great--grandchildren

We love you all.

Millions of people today are searching

for a reliable voice of authority.

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The Word of God is the

only real authority.

Contents

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Foreword

For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

♥ Matt 6:14 NKJV

The fundamental principles which underpin the Christian life are love and forgiveness. These quintessential qualities of our faith are summed up by God Himself who commands us to love Him first and then to love our neighbours as we would love ourselves.

The very first principles used by Almighty God in His work of redemption, reconciliation and restoration of man were love and forgiveness. It is therefore very obvious from this that there can be no redemption, reconciliation or no restoration without forgiveness -- forgiveness is a main tributary of the river of love.

We have found ourselves rooted deeply in the mire of personal, social and environmental change. It seems people are suffering from fear, anxiety and hopelessness more than ever before in these changing times. High unemployment, family separations, teenage crime, violence and sexuality, absence of morals and spiritual values have all helped to create a selfish behaviour that is not very embracing. Hence the teaching of love and forgiveness in this time is so important.

From Matthew chapters five and six we understand that no one should think that he can receive anything from God if he entertains unforgiveness in his heart. We need to forgive to be forgiven, for love will cover a multitude of sins. The door to forgiveness always swings upon our own willingness to forgive those who have wronged us.

Pastor Cumberbatch has produced a solid biblical work on love and forgiveness that reminds us of our spiritual struggle in maintaining that right attitude and behaviour to each other. This book is written to all people in all cultures and for all times. The universality of the message is evident in the revelation of the limitless power that is inherent in the principle of love and forgiveness -- a power that absolutely cancels the offence of others against you.

The lack of love and the spirit of unforgiveness unknowingly reveal and expose our own shortcomings. Those who submit to the power of unforgiveness must remember the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 6:16 Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are....

It is my personal belief that this book has the propensity to expose that ungodly spirit of unforgiveness and lack of love among believers and ignite a mighty deliverance across the Body of Christ in the nations. This will result in the restoration, refreshing and freedom among the brethren.

I unreservedly recommend that the foundational teaching on this very important subject matter be represented in churches across the nations and applied by every Kingdom citizen so that deliverance and total healing from every form of sickness in our body can be experienced.

Senator Rev Dr David Durant, J.P.

Senior Pastor

Restoration Ministries International

Gunsite Road, Brittons Hill

St. Michael

Barbados. West Indies

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Pastor Errington Cumberbatch loves the Lord and has a heart for healing and deliverance. When he heard about the Health To You Ministry's Walking In Wholeness Basic Course he was eager to find out more about the ministry. He came to our course with a hunger for God and a desire to learn more about our Heavenly Father's love and this ministry of healing. Dr. Caroline Leaf says that when we live in love all of our body systems work perfectly.

Errington has an intimate relationship with his Heavenly Father, lives and walks in the Father's love and exemplifies it in his daily life. In 2011, Errington and his wife Jane, stepped out in faith and followed the call of God to bring this teaching to Barbados.

The topics in this book are key to living in wholeness and having healthy relationships. I bless you as you read and are transformed by the words of knowledge contained in The Way Is Love.

Errington is a man of integrity and rejoices in helping others come into a wonderful relationship of wholeness, first with God and then with others. He and his wife, Jane are an integral part of our Health To You Ministry team working in Barbados.

Rev J Timothy Roberts

Executive Director

Health To You Ministry (Canada)

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Preface

When I began to write this book, I was thinking about the world and what is happening to our society. I pondered in my heart some issues we are facing today. Is there an answer to these questions?

• Why is there so much hatred, discrimination, and racism in our world?

• How much better would our lives be if we just loved one another?

• Can man's intellectual advancement solve his social, cultural, and relational problems?

• Is it even possible for everyone to love each other?

• Why are there so many different religions?

• Are human beings important to God?

• Are there evil spirits around us?

• Why do curses run in some families?

• Can a Christian be demon-possessed?

• Do evil spirits affect Christians?

I am excited to think that the chapters in this book will have a positive effect and address some of these issues. I am sure that this book will open your mind, your eyes, your heart, and your spirit, so that you will not only know that the Holy Spirit is in you but will understand how to hear from God through the Holy Spirit.

I hope with all my heart that you will feel the love in this book, because my desire -- and God's desire -- is for you to have an abundant life. God created us, and we are so important to Him that He created us in His own image and likeness. He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to suffer for our sins, die on the cross for our salvation, and rise again so that we can have eternal life. Jesus lives today.

It's not about religion -- it's about a relationship with Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour and our Heavenly Father. God said, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, with loving kindness I have drawn you (Jeremiah 31:3). We don't need more religion in this world; we need more Jesus. In spite of our intellectual advancement, we still cannot solve our social, cultural, and religious problems. One of the reasons, I believe, is that many people want to exclude God from everything. God created us; He wants us to worship Him. Without Him, we can do nothing.

Medical science is discovering that the Bible is truth. Medical science actually enhances the Bible and the Bible enhances medical science. Dr. Caroline Leaf is a Neuroscientist who has an amazing way of teaching both the scientific and spiritual aspects of the mind and the mind-body connection in easy to understand terms. In 2 Corinthians 10:5 Scripture tells us to take every thought captive, and I emphasize this throughout my teaching. Because of Dr. Leaf's book, Who Switched Off My Brain, I can see and understand how science lines up with the effectiveness of the daily principles God has laid out for us in His Word. Medical science also validates that many diseases are stress-related and affected by our "emotional well-being". The Merck Manual references that approximately eighty percent of disease are etiology unknown. If a disease is of an unknown or undetermined cause, the cause is most likely, spiritual. (Those that are stress-related also are spiritually-rooted.)

Even though God created us spirit, soul, and body as separate entities, we are intimately integrated. What happens in our body also affects our soul and spirit. Life is actually a spiritual force! The mind has the power of intellect, emotions, and free-will and, if enabled by the spirit and empowered by the Holy Spirit, can make good choices to positively change the body -- which improves the brain.

Do you know that love is a spirit and that the same spirit of love can bring your body into alignment with the way God created it to be, establishing an atmosphere for healing? If we all loved one another, what do you think would happen to sickness and disease? And if we all had love in our hearts, would we be at war or even dealing with terrorism? A spirit of love changes our thought lives. If our thought lives are good, is there any room for evil, hatred, killing, or murder with the tongue?

Have you spent your life trying to meet the expectations of others? Perhaps from the time you were a child someone has forced you to take on a certain personality, job, or lifestyle. Are you the person today that God planned you to be? Do you know who you are? You can change your life with the power of love. It is life, and it is health. Keep going. The best is yet to come, because God has a plan for your life, and His plan is always perfect. It is God who writes the last chapter in the book of life.

Perhaps this book will answer some of the questions that we all have in these days and bring us one little step closer to global peace and harmony. In order to achieve this, we must walk in love and forgiveness and be obedient to God.

Love and blessings,

Errington D. Cumberbatch

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Acknowledgements

I was encouraged by the Lord to write this book, and as I started to write, the Holy Spirit inspired me and gave me downloads to include in the book.

I want to thank my wife, Jane, for her support and assistance with the writing of this book. I love you.

A special thank-you goes to Dr Rondo Thomas, Professor and Vice President of Canada Christian College; and Dr Clarence Duff, Dean/Professor of Psychology and Counselling, Canada Christian College, for encouraging me to get started on this project when I had the vision.

I extend a very special thank-you to Rev Tim Roberts, Executive Director of Health To You Ministry in Canada, who has encouraged me, mentored me, and supported me as I took a step of faith to bring the Walking in Wholeness Course to Barbados, my country of birth.

Along this journey, several key leaders in Barbados have encouraged and endorsed the teaching of Walking In Wholeness Barbados Inc. They are Bishop Othneil Forde, Full Gospel Assembly; Rev Dr Holmes Williams, The Peoples' Cathedral; Rev Andre Symmonds, The Peoples' Cathedral; Bishop Justin McIntosh, Pentecostal Church of the Living God; Rev Lionel Gibson, Past Chairman, The General Assembly of the Church of God; Senator Rev Dr David Durant, Restoration Ministries International; Rev Wendell Weekes, Church of God Greens; Rev Dr Michael Crichlow, Trinity Outreach Ministries International, Dr Orlando Seale,