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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your line.

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

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage us all today to be bucket fillers.

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Speaker 3: What's a bucket filler?

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Speaker 2: A bucket filler is someone who is willing to make deposits,

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Speaker 2: positive deposits in the life of other people, not only

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Speaker 2: with their words.

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Speaker 3: But with their actions. See.

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Speaker 2: A bucket filler is someone who is willing to give.

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Speaker 2: There's too many bucket dippers in this world, too many

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Speaker 2: bucket dippers.

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Speaker 3: What's a bucket dipper? A bucket dipper.

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Speaker 2: Is someone who dips out of the emotional bank of

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Speaker 2: others with harsh words and criticism.

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Speaker 3: Someone who dips.

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Speaker 2: Out of the life of other people. You see the

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Speaker 2: thing about bucket dippers. Bucket dippers don't even realize that

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Speaker 2: they're depleting their own bucket.

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Speaker 3: You See, when you.

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Speaker 2: Fill other people's buckets, you'll have your bucket filled. We

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Speaker 2: want to be bucket fillers. We have tremendous power and

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Speaker 2: influence with our words. Listen to what it says in

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Speaker 2: Ephesians four twenty nine. It says, let no unwholesome talk

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Speaker 2: come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful

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Speaker 2: for building others up, for benefiting the hearer, for extending

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Speaker 2: grace to those other people, for building people up. You see,

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Speaker 2: it is up to us. It starts with us. We

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Speaker 2: can be the builders. We can be the one to

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Speaker 2: turn this thing around. We don't have to go with

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Speaker 2: the flow, but we can swim upstream because we have

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Speaker 2: God on the inside of us. But we have to

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Speaker 2: make a decision that we're going to be builders. You know,

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Speaker 2: not only can we build people with our words, find

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Speaker 2: the best and bring it out in them, but do

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Speaker 2: you know that our words can literally be the glue

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Speaker 2: that holds our relationships together. It can literally bind us

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Speaker 2: together when we speak positive, faith builed words over one another,

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Speaker 2: when we're willing to pick out the good and not

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Speaker 2: see the bad. You see, it's easy to see what's wrong,

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Speaker 2: but it takes a builder to see what's right. It

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Speaker 2: takes a builder to know architecturally kind to fix things.

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Speaker 2: You are a builder today. I want to encourage you

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Speaker 2: with that, because too often we are unconscious about literally

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Speaker 2: what we are doing throughout the day. And I want

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Speaker 2: us to all go out of here saying I am

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Speaker 2: a builder of people, because when I build people, I

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Speaker 2: build myself. Whatever I throw out is going to come

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Speaker 2: back to me. Joel and I have been married thirty years,

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Speaker 2: and we've learned a lot about building. We've learned a

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Speaker 2: lot about extending grace to one another through our words.

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Speaker 2: To be married for thirty years, you know you have

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Speaker 2: to give each other great grace and you have to

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Speaker 2: use your words to do it. You see, we realize

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Speaker 2: really a good relationship is built on what you're willing

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Speaker 2: to give more than what you're willing to receive. We

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Speaker 2: all want to be loved, We all want the other

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Speaker 3: But to get the kindness, we have.

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Speaker 2: To be willing to give because really, what you give

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Speaker 2: is really what's going to come back to you. Are

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Speaker 2: you just looking for someone to give you something in

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Speaker 2: your relationship? I'm telling you this is a principle that

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Speaker 2: if we will understand I believe things will change in

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Speaker 2: grace and give grace is what's gonna build our relationships.

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Speaker 2: We've all heard this when we were young, the Golden rule.

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Speaker 2: Your mom probably taught you, your first grade teacher probably

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Speaker 2: Golden rule is found in Matthew seven twelve. It says this,

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Speaker 2: So in everything, do unto others what you would have

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Speaker 2: unto others what you would have them do unto you.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think about this. When you go buy

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Speaker 3: No, you choose wisely.

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Speaker 2: You go in, you look at the clothes, You decide

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Speaker 3: You take time and effort.

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Speaker 2: You buy those clothes, you take them home, and you

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Speaker 2: want to encourage us to take the same time to

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Speaker 2: choose wisely the words that we speak out of our mouth,

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Speaker 2: because the truth is this, we're gonna wear those words.

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Speaker 2: We are going to be a product of what we say,

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Speaker 2: we are going to eat from the fruit of our lips.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we just throw caution to the wind, not thinking

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Speaker 2: it's gonna affect us. But can I tell you what

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Speaker 3: Now? I have to admit this. When I was a

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Speaker 2: And I first married Joel thirty years ago, I didn't

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Speaker 2: weigh my words. I wasn't putting the glue on my

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Speaker 2: relationship like I should have. I'll never forget this. God

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Speaker 2: spoke to me one day and he said, Victoria.

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Speaker 3: He said, if you don't.

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Speaker 2: Begin to choose your words wisely, you're gonna be sorry.

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Speaker 2: He basically said, your own words are going to work

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Speaker 3: I was a young bride. I was a younger.

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Speaker 2: I was new to this thing, and I didn't always

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Speaker 2: weigh my words right. I always used to kind of

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Speaker 2: having my own way, doing it the way I wanted

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Speaker 2: to do it. And I thought he should get into

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Speaker 3: But can I tell you this.

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Speaker 2: I stand up here today and I remember God speaking

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Speaker 2: to my heart like it was yesterday.

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Speaker 3: It brought tears to my eyes.

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Speaker 2: It was a serious matter, and I am so grateful

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Speaker 2: that I took heed to what God told me. I

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Speaker 2: begin to think about what I was building. I begin

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Speaker 2: to think about the grace that.

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Speaker 3: I was extending.

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Speaker 2: You see, I wanted a man that was successful. I

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Speaker 2: wanted a man that believed in himself, that had confidence.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to be the buoye that pushed him up,

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Speaker 2: not the anchor that pulled him down.

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Speaker 3: I begin to say.

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Speaker 2: What I wanted, not what I saw or what I

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Speaker 2: thought I saw. I begin to see the good and

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Speaker 2: bring out the good. Now, can I tell you to

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Speaker 2: this day, I am not perfect, but I make far

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Speaker 2: more deposits than I do with Drass, far more deposits

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Speaker 2: than I do with Rass.

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

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Speaker 2: If you keep writing those checks, you're gonna go bankrupt.

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Speaker 2: You got to put checks in, You got to fill

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Speaker 2: today I just want to encourage every one of us.

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Speaker 2: We can create a life that we want with the

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Speaker 2: words that we speak. If you want grace, you better

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Speaker 2: extend grace because we're all becoming I.

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Speaker 3: Think about Peter. He was a disciple of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: He walked with Jesus, and if you read about Peter's life,

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Speaker 2: sometimes he was impatient.

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Speaker 3: He would say things he shouldn't. In fact, his.

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Speaker 2: Name, Simon Peter, actually means pebble, and I'm sure some

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Speaker 2: of the things he did he felt like a pebble

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Speaker 2: some days. But you know what, he was Jesus' disciple,

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Speaker 2: and Jesus said, Peter, you're a rock. You see, to

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Speaker 2: fight Peter's personality, Jesus called the rock out in him.

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Speaker 3: He spoke to the potential. And we are the Church

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Speaker 3: of the Living God. We've got to speak to each

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Speaker 2: We are building this on a solid found day, on

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Speaker 2: a rock. We can't be influenced by what we see.

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Speaker 2: We've got to make a decision that we are builders.

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Speaker 2: Because I can tell you, if you extend grace, you

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Speaker 3: We can all be better. We're learning, we're growing, we're becoming.

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Speaker 3: We're in the process.

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Speaker 2: We're creating Peters all around us as we create the

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Speaker 3: Remember, you're a bucket filler.

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Speaker 2: Stop and choose your words wisely, because I believe when

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Speaker 2: you do that, when you're willing to extend grace, that

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Speaker 2: same grace I'll come back to you.

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

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Speaker 1: If you're a pastor, we'd like to invite you to

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Speaker 1: our Pastors Gathering. We'd be honored to spend the day

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Speaker 1: with you here at Lakewood. We'll share some of the

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Speaker 1: things we've learned, insights and behind the scenes, be a

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Speaker 1: time of inspiration and encouragement. We'd love to meet you