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I would 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 and hold some 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 build 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 together?

It can literally bind us together when we speak positive faith-build words over one another when we're willing to pick out the good and not see the bad.

You see it's easy to see what's wrong but it takes a builder to see what's right.

It takes a builder to know architecturally how to fix things.

You are a builder today. I want to encourage you with that because too often we are unconscious about literally what we are doing throughout the day.

And I want us to all go out of here saying I am a builder of people because when I build people I build myself.

Whatever I throw out is going to come back to me.

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