"I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Cor 6:16b; KJV). Something similar is found in Exodus 25:8, where God told Moses to make a holy place so that he could dwell among them. That word dwell, means to stay, abide, remain.

Similar scriptures are found in other places in the Old Testament. In Psalm 22:3 it says: "But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel”. In the Old Testament God dwelt in the tabernacle and the prophets met with him there but in the New Testament we learn that: "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). In John 15:4-7 Jesus told his disciples that he would abide with them. The word abide, in the New Testament, has the same meaning as "dwell" in the Old Testament. In John 14:23 we are told that God the Father and Jesus will make their home with us and in Eph. 3:17 we read that Jesus: “may dwell in our hearts by faith”. What a privilege, we can communicate with the God of the universe any time any day, wherever we are and whatever we are doing because he is right inside of us. 

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