Get out of debt

The debt problem

• Habakkuk 2:7
  7  Will not your debtors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their victim.

Proper method

• Romans 13:7-8
  7  Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
  8  Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.

Comments

• Debt causes you to live in a state of fear.  The Bible clearly states that we are to pay people what we owe them.  Don't fool yourself into believing debt is ok.

Things to do and think about

How we are to think

• Philippians 4:8
  8  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

What our life should show

• Galatians 5:22-23
  22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  23  gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Be happy, do good, and enjoy your work

• Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
  24  A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
  25  for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
  26  To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Stop worrying

Uselessness of worrying

• Matthew 6:25-27
  25  "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
  26  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
  27  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?

One day at a time

• Matthew 6:34
  34  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Don't be anxious

• Philippians 4:6-7
  6  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
  7  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Strength against man

• Hebrews 13:6
  6  So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

Prayer

Prayer is between just God and you - not for showing off to others

• Matthew 6:5-8
  5  "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
  6  But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
  7  And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
  8  Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

An example of prayer from Christ

• Matthew 6:9-15
  9  "This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
  10  your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
  11  Give us today our daily bread.
  12  Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
  13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'
  14  For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
  15  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Once saved, the Holy Spirit helps us in our prayers

• Romans 8:26
  26  In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Comments

• Prayer isn't designed for us to "get" what we want from God.  Its main purpose is to bring us into alignment with God's will.  When you pray, you're talking to God.  There are no special words.  It's just you talking to God.

How to get to heaven

We're sinners

• Romans 3:23
  23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Christ died for our sins

• 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
  3  For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
  4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

You must believe Christ died for your sins

• John 3:16
  16  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Christ is the only way into heaven

• John 14:6
  6  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Comments

• Getting to heaven is a simple matter of believing that you're a sinner and Christ died for your sins.  The key here is belief.  Just saying it does nothing.

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Repairing Windows

You need to get a Windows XP from someone and follow these instructions:
Windows could not start because the following files is missing or corrupt
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM or \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE

1. Insert and boot from your Windows XP CD.
2. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3. Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair.
Typically this will be #1
4. Enter in the administrator password when requested
5. cd \windows\system32\config
6. Depending on which section was corrupted:
ren software software.bad or ren system system.bad
7. Depending on which section was corrupted
copy \windows\repair\system
copy \windows\repair\software
8. Take out the CD ROM and type exit

If that doesn't work or you can't get into the repair console then With the XP disk you choose to install Windows XP and when you choose to install over the current XP installation you will be given the option to repair the current Windows installation and you won't lose all of your data.