My relationship with Jesus has affected my faith by allowing me to surround myself with fellowship, and demonstrate His love to everyone, even those I find hard to get along with. My relationship with Jesus has grown tremendously throughout the past two years and it is only continuing to grow. I plan to demonstrate my faith through my educational journey by pursuing a career in youth ministry. I believe this is the calling on my life that I am both passionate about, and love doing. I love being around children and making myself useful by helping them learn what it's like to have a relationship with Jesus and how it helps them get through every situation in their life. While pursuing youth ministry, I will be able to teach children how to pray, read His word, and be the hands and feet of Jesus. I will teach them how to do these things by reflecting Him through my spirit in every interaction I have with them. I have used prayer and God's word to get me through many challenging events in my life, and I plan to teach these children how to do the same. My faith has shown me the importance of having full reliance on the Lord. Since I first started my relationship with Christ, I've learned how temporary everything of the world is and I've learned how to truly satisfy the desires of my heart. I've learned how to fight off lies of the enemy and take my thoughts captive. My goal is to be able to teach children how to shape their thinking into thoughts of Christ, and how to make satan flee when he tries to invade their life. Christ is a part of my everyday life and I am learning how to demonstrate that to everyone around me so they can see how important it is to have a relationship with the Lord and have full reliance on Him. Teaching children how to love like Jesus and be a mirror of Him is my desire for every child I encounter. Currently, I nanny 4 days a week and I am loving how I am able to show Christ's character to her every day I see her. I'm showing her how to be patient when she wants something, how to communicate effectively when she wants/needs something, how to be loving with her words and her actions, and how to worship the Lord through everything she does. I love being able to pray with her and listen to worship music. By doing that, I believe that this is only the beginning of a very successful relationship the she'll have with Christ as she keeps getting older.