Col 3:16     Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Compare these two passages. To be “filled with the Spirit” is the same as to “let the word of Christ  dwell  in you richly”.

Rom 8:5     For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.

How come no one I know will admit to the spirit of God, and the spirit of Jesus lives personally within their body,
Because it is a representative indwelling of the Spirit in us through or by the word of God. The only thing here that could possibly live in the human body is the word. The word lives within our memory bank, our mind.
Do God and Christ literally indwell the saints? Surely you can recognize this as figurative language.
But yet there are those who insist that the holy ghost lives literally within the Christian body. That would not only make the holy spirit subject to the human, it would by necessity make the holy spirit smaller than the human body. No one can live in a home smaller than themselves.
The scripture most often referred to, to confirm their belief is Acts 2:38 which is not even figuratively  suggesting indwellment.
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Jhn 20:2  And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
If Peter meant “Receive ye the Holy Ghost”: why did he not say it like Jesus said it.
instead he said ” receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
This is why Peter said it as he did. Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The gift Peter was speaking of, is the same gift spoken of in Rom 6:23.

The simple truth is that whatever the Holy Spirit does for anyone today is accomplished with and through the revealed word of God.

And prayers answered from Heaven, not from within.

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