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Speaker 1: We are so glad that you joined us for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: We believe that this is going to be a great February.

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Speaker 1: We're starting the year off right and we know that

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Speaker 1: God's got blessings in store for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so awesome that you join us and we

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Speaker 2: just speak blessings over you and your family. Get ready

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Speaker 2: for a blessed twenty twenty four. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Ay man, Amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 1: I want to encourage us all today to be bucket fillers.

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Speaker 1: What's a bucket filler? A bucket filler is someone who

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Speaker 1: is willing to make deposits, positive deposits in the life

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Speaker 1: of other people, not only with their words, but with

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Speaker 1: their actions. See A bucket filler is someone who is

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Speaker 1: willing to give. There's too many bucket dippers in this world.

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Speaker 1: Too many bucket dippers. What's a bucket dipper? A bucket

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Speaker 1: dipper is someone who dips out of the emotional of

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Speaker 1: others with harsh words and criticism, someone who dips out

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Speaker 1: of the life of other people. You see the thing

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Speaker 1: about bucket dippers. Bucket dippers don't even realize that they're

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Speaker 1: depleting their own bucket.

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Speaker 3: You see, when you.

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Speaker 1: Fill other people's buckets, you'll have your bucket filled. We

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Speaker 1: want to be bucket fillers. We have tremendous power and

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Speaker 1: influence with our words. Listen to what it says in

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Speaker 1: Ephesians four twenty nine. It says, let no unwholesome talk

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Speaker 1: come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful

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Speaker 1: for building others up, for benefiting the hearer, for extending

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Speaker 1: grace to those other people, for building people up.

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Speaker 3: You see, it is up to us.

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Speaker 1: It starts with us. We can be the builders. We

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Speaker 1: can be the one to turn this thing around. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to go with the flow, but we can

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Speaker 1: swim upstream because we have God on the inside of us.

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Speaker 1: But we have to make a decision that we're going

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Speaker 1: to be builders. You know, not only can we build

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Speaker 1: can literally be the glue that holds our relationships together.

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Speaker 1: It can literally bind us together when we speak positive,

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Speaker 1: pick out the good and not see the bad. You see,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to see what's wrong, but it takes a

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Speaker 3: You are a builder today.

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Speaker 1: I want to encourage you with that, because too often

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Speaker 3: And I want us to all go out of here

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Speaker 3: saying I.

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Speaker 1: Am a builder of people, because when I build people,

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Speaker 3: Whatever I throw out, it's going to come back to me.

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Speaker 1: Joel and I have been married thirty years, and we've

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Speaker 1: learned a lot about building. We've learned a lot about

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Speaker 1: extending grace to one another through our words. To be

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Speaker 1: married for thirty years, you know, you have to give

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Speaker 3: You see, we.

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Speaker 1: Realize really a good relationship is built on what you're

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Speaker 3: We all want to be loved.

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Speaker 1: We all want the other person to show us kindness.

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Speaker 1: But to get the kindness, have to be willing to give,

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Speaker 3: Being willing to extend.

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Speaker 1: We've all heard this when we were young, the Golden Rule.

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Speaker 1: Your mom probably taught you, your first grade teacher probably

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Speaker 1: Golden rule is found in Matthew seven twelve. It says this,

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Speaker 1: So in everything, do unto others what you would have

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Speaker 3: We are going to eat from the fruit of our lips.

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: my relationship like I should have. I'll never forget this.

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Speaker 1: God spoke to me one day and he said, Victoria.

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Speaker 1: He said, if you don't begin to choose your words wisely,

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Speaker 1: you're going to be sorry. He basically said, your own

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Speaker 1: I was new to this thing, and I didn't always

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Speaker 1: I stand up here today and I remember God speaking

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Speaker 1: You see, I wanted a man that was successful. I

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Speaker 3: I begin to say what.

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Speaker 1: I am not perfect, but I make far more deposits

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like your bank account.

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Speaker 1: If you keep writing those checks, you're gonna go bankrupt.

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Speaker 1: want grace, you better extend grace, because we're all becoming

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Speaker 1: I think about Peter. He was a disciple of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And if you read about Peter's life, sometimes he was impatient.

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Speaker 1: In fact, his name, Simon Peter, actually means pebble, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure some of the things he did he felt

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Speaker 1: You see, despite Peter's personality, Jesus called the rock out

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Speaker 1: in him. He spoke to the potential. And we are

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Speaker 1: the Church of the Living God. We've got to speak

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Speaker 3: We've got to make a decision that we are builders.

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Speaker 1: Because I can tell you, if you extend grace, you

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Speaker 3: We can all be better.

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Speaker 1: We're learning, we're growing, we're becoming. We're in the process.

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Speaker 1: We're creating Peters all around us as we create the

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Speaker 1: Peter on the inside of us. Remember you're a bucket filler.

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Speaker 1: Stop and choose your words wisely, because I believe when

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Speaker 1: you do that, when you're willing to extend grace. That

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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 4: Breathtaking. That's what you feel when you look out at

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Speaker 4: But even as you consider his handiwork, you might also

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Speaker 2: The opinion you have of yourself is your most important opinion.

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Speaker 2: Too often we see ourselves as ordinary, not talented, unattractive.

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Speaker 2: That wrong self image is setting the limits for our life.

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Speaker 2: The key is to get an agreement with who God

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