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Amen, amen. You may be seated. I want to encourage us all today to be bucket fillers. What's a bucket filler? A bucket filler is someone who is

willing to make deposits, positive deposits, in the life of other people.

Not only with their words, but with their actions.

See, a bucket filler is someone who is willing to give.

There's too many bucket dippers in this world.

Too many bucket dippers. What's a bucket dipper? A bucket dipper is someone

who dips out of the emotional bank of others with harsh words and criticism. Someone who dips out

of the life of other people. You see, the thing about bucket dippers, bucket dippers don't even realize that

they're depleting their own bucket. You see, when you fill other people's buckets,

you'll have your bucket filled. We want to be bucket fillers. We have tremendous power and influence with our words. Listen to what it says in

Ephesians 429. It says, let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is

helpful for building others up, for benefiting the hearer, for extending grace to those other

people, for building people up. You see, it is up to us. It starts with us. We can be the builders.

We can be the one to turn this thing around. We don't

have to go with the flow, but we can swim upstream because we have God on the inside of us.

But we have to make a decision that we're going to be builders.

You know, not only can we bill people with our words, find the best and bring it out in them,

but do you know that our words can literally be the glue that holds our relationships

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