EASTER
FESTIVAL

The King has Risen!

Easter is the world’s biggest festival, which celebrates Christ’s Resurrection on Resurrection Sunday. It is preceded by Lent, a 40-day period to get closer to God and Christ and deepen your relationship. This 40-day period represents the 40 days and 40 nights Jesus Christ spent fasting after being led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Eve.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. — The Bible, Matthew 4:1-2

Easter Meaning

The word Easter derives from the Christian designation of Easter week as in albis, a Latin phrase that was understood as the plural of alba (“dawn”) and became eostarum in Old High German, the precursor of the modern German and English term. The Latin and Greek Pascha (“Passover”) provides the root for Pâques, the French word for Easter. Source: Britannica.

Dawn is the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. Christ’s Ressurection (like dawn at the beginning of the day) is hope piercing through to light up the whole world. But before dawn and hope, comes darkness and despair.

Going on a binge-read doesn’t qualify as a sacrifice. Even if your sanity was at risk. @thegodco (image credit: shutterstock.com)

Why Easter?

The Good Engineer

As a woman created by God, your most basic human right is to know Him. No one can ever take that right away from you because God gave you that right when He created you. Why is it your most basic human right? When God formed your body, He placed His salvation in you through Christ, His Son. God literally tattooed your right to become His child through Christ inside you from the go, regardless of gender, beliefs, ethnicity and orientation. Whatever your behavior and character, God valued you enough before you were conceived by ingraining His Grace through Christ in you.

We are not just chatting blah-blah-blah here. This is backed by science. So backed, it’s quite frightening to see the supreme engineering that is God’s mind. In every human body, there are laminins, which are large cell-adhesive glycoproteins required for the formation and function of basement membranes in all animals. Humans are animals, yeah. The short of it is, if our laminins malfunction, we malfunction too.

Now, let’s see the supreme engineer at play: structural studies by electron microscopy in the early 1980s revealed a cross-shaped molecule, which subsequently was shown to consist of three distinct polypeptide chains.

You read that right. Science proves that laminins are integral to the structural scaffolding of almost every tissue of an organism—secreted and incorporated into cell-associated extracellular matrices. Basically, without these cross-shaped molecules that make you function, you die.

God embedded Christ’s Cross in you at the base, that is, at the planning stage, before He formed the first-ever humans. Even knowing that Adam and Eve would sin against Him, God embedded His Salvation through Jesus in you. God’s Goodness through Christ also makes your physical body breathe, think, walk and sleep. You cannot survive without your laminin molecules in this life—just as you cannot survive without your laminin molecule in the other life.

Schematic Representation of Laminin Molecule

Adam and Eve

It all started with Adam and Eve. When God created them, He placed them in a garden called Eden, gave them everything they could ever wish for, and asked them to multiply. So basically, make love, have babies and be merry. The tree of good and evil was in the Garden of Eden, and God told Adam and Eve not to eat its fruit or they would die. But did they listen? No. That pair of know-it-alls ate the fruit when a snake in the grass tempted Eve. Their bad behavior unleashed a chain of events that saw them being cursed by God and separated from Him and Eternal life. Read the full story.

God

When Adam and Eve fell out with God, so did we as their descendants. And the only way to right things between God and us was for Jesus Christ (God’s Son) to die.

Jesus

Jesus died an atrocious and vicious death on the cross to reconcile us with God and (with the same stone) give us daily and eternal peace of mind. His death bridged the gap between God and us and made us children of God. A truly horrible death. His crucifixion started with scourging—whipping someone as a punishment. Christ was then mocked by soldiers and made to carry his large wooden cross to Golgotha over his battered body. When he arrived at Golgotha, he was stripped of his clothes and nailed by his hands on the cross (the nails were hammered through), where he was left to die like a common criminal.

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. — The Bible, John 1:12-13

Little Easter Book

This page is your ultimate guide to all things Easter Festival from commemorating Christ’s Death to celebrating His Resurrection. The Little Easter Book is the mini version of Easter Festival. At just 9 pages long, you get Easter Festival at a glance. Download the Little Easter Book now for free by clicking on the cover of your choice above.

Easter Prints

Download Easter cute and eye-catching book covers and prints by saving the images of your choice on your device. They make gorgeous wallpapers on your lock and home screens.

Godcation

Your relationship with God and Christ is a living and breathable thing, just as the other relationships in your life. If you don’t nurture your relationships daily and make space for quality time with your loved ones, they won’t grow. The same applies to your relationship with God and Christ. Lent is a vacation intended to deepen your relationship with them. Like going on vacation with your loved ones for quality family time, make Lent a vacation for quality time between God, Jesus and you. A vacation doesn’t exclude Sundays, so make every day between Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday your Godcation time.

Godcation ideas

On your self-care day, run a bath, shut the outside world and listen to the Bible on audio or praise/worship songs as the stress and tension of the day ebb away.
Grab a drink and get under warm covers or head to the park to read your Bible.

Do you CAT?

Never run out of what to say to God and Christ! Having a conversation with God and Christ (Prayer) is easy as 1, 2, 3. Literally! CAT (short for Care, Ask and Thank) is to have constant conversations with God and Christ using Christ’s CAT Method, known as The Lord’s Prayer. To pray is to care for God and Christ, ask for God’s help in Jesus’s Name and thank God and Christ for all the good things they do for you. That’s all prayer is: care for God and Christ, ask God for His help in Jesus’s Name and thank God and Christ for all they do for you.

Download CAT PDF that contains the full step-by-step on how to CAT. The free PDF comes in high-resolution 300 dpi that you can read at any size on your phone, tablet, laptop or computer.

God-stack on Easter Day

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. — Jesus Christ, Savior of the World, John 15:15

Jesus, in the above passage, is basically calling you his friend. We don’t know about you, but when we spend time with friends, whether on the phone, online or in person, we are always relaxed and at ease with ourselves. God and Jesus are your friends, if you want to eat or drink (soda or a soft drink) while reading your Bible and spending time with them, go for it. To amp up your time with God and Christ to the max, you can God-stack. That is, involve God and Christ in things you already do or love by taking a regular habit and pairing it with a God-amplifying or Christ-amplifying habit.

5 WAYS TO GOD-STACK ON EASTER DAY (ADD YOUR OWN IDEAS TOO!)

Have an intense meditation session with God and Christ first thing when you wake up. And we mean a full-blown-out God, Jesus and Holy Spirit love fest.
Put the Bible on audio while doing your skincare routine, having a shower and getting dressed.
Crank praise songs all the way to the full volume while having breakfast.
Continue with the praise vibe and energy on your way to your church or worship place.
Let it loose in a church or worship place! Shout at the top of your lungs when you appreciate God for sending his son to die for you and Christ for agreeing to come to earth to die for you. Don’t mind that person next to you. If they don’t get your gaga-for-God vibe or crazy-for-Christ energy, they’re SO in the wrong crowd.