YPF DELTA NORTH Chapter

Don’t miss it! 🔗✨
Professionals Connect is happening TODAY, 24th May 2026 by 2PM!
Get ready for an impactful time of networking, learning, and insightful conversations that will inspire growth and build capacity.
📍 Venue: Deeper Life Bible Church, 13 Ojugbana Drive, Off Ezenei Avenue, Asaba, Delta State
Come along with your friends and colleagues — come connect with purpose! 💚

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🌟 Ready to connect, learn, and grow?
Join us at Professionals Connect an inspiring gathering designed to spark meaningful conversations, build valuable relationships, and empower young professionals for greater impact.
Whether you're a student, entrepreneur, career professional, or visionary leader, this is an opportunity to network, gain insight, and be part of conversations that build capacity for the future.
🗓 Sunday, 24th May 2026
🕑 2PM
📍 Deeper Life Bible Church, 13 Ojugbana Drive, Off Ezenei Avenue, Asaba, Delta State.
Come expectant. Come inspired. Come connected.
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Happy New Month of May! 🌿

May this month bring fresh grace, open doors, renewed strength, and divine alignment in all you do. May every seed of prayer blossom into testimonies.

“Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.”
Welcome to a month of favor, fruitfulness, and forward movement.
**May will be good to you.**

Discernment or Emotion? Learning to Separate Feelings from Truth

Emotions are powerful, but they are not always reliable. In a generation driven by feelings, many young professionals struggle to distinguish between what they feel and what is actually true. Emotional intelligence is not the absence of emotions—it is the ability to govern them with wisdom and truth.

The Bible makes it clear that human emotions alone cannot be trusted as a final guide. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” This does not mean emotions are evil, but that they are incomplete. They need discernment.

Discernment, on the other hand, is the ability to see beyond feelings into truth. Philippians 1:9-10 says, “And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent.” This shows that love must be balanced with knowledge and judgment—meaning emotional sensitivity must be guided by spiritual understanding.

Many people make decisions based on how they feel in the moment—anger, fear, attraction, disappointment—only to regret it later. But maturity in Christ calls us to something higher. Proverbs 3:5-6 instructs, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Notice it does not say rely on feelings, but on the Lord.

A spiritually mature person learns to pause between emotion and action. That pause is where discernment speaks. Not every emotional urge should become a decision. Not every feeling is a revelation.

Jesus Himself demonstrated emotional intelligence. In John 11:35, Jesus wept—He felt sorrow—but in Luke 22:42, He still surrendered His will to the Father, saying, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” That is the highest form of emotional maturity: feeling deeply, yet yielding fully to truth.

For young professionals, this is critical in relationships, work decisions, leadership, and spiritual growth. Ask yourself: Am I reacting from emotion, or responding from truth?

Because in life, emotions will speak loudly—but truth must lead loudly.