Personal reflection and meditation
Consider those you live with. How do you interact and relate with those you share your home with? How do those you live with effect the choices you make, the lifestyle that you live?

Meditate on and memorize (read, write and repeat) John 15:4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me."

Bible Study
Look up the word "abide" in the dictionary or your Strong's Concordance (3306) and write out the definition.

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Read the following passages which also use the same Greek verb for abide (translated stay in the NIV) used in John 15: Matthew 10:11, Luke 19:5, Luke 24:28, John 12:36.

Read John 14:23. The noun form of the verb abide is used in this passage and is translated home or abode.

Now in your own words write down your thoughts on what Christ means when He says abide in Me, and I in you.

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In a practical sense how do we abide? What does abiding look like? Read the following passages and write down your thoughts on how to abide in a practical sense. 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Philippians 2:3-5, Romans 12:2b, Colossians 3:12-14, Ephesians 5:18-19, Matthew 4:4, John 6:63.

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Personal Application
In what ways are you abiding? In what ways do you see a need to abide more?

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How did you sense God speaking to you through this study?

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What adjustment in attitudes, beliefs or actions is God calling you to make?

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Take these things to God in prayer

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