I love the Word of God…
Even in the few years when confusion and bondage I couldn't explain at the time were taking place within me, I still read my Bible daily. Honest and true, this was my everyday practice. Did I have fresh revelation daily and sense the life-breath of the Holy Spirit while reading? No, not often during this time, but His All-Powerful Living Word was still doing a healing work in my desperate life.
It was this same Word of God that brought my deliverance*. There are many nuances and factors in the story of course, notwithstanding an incredible battle with the enemy of my soul. However, light always trumps darkness and God's Living Word annihilated the enemy's plans for me. This very same Word has brought me into a life of such abundance that even now, twelve years later, it still takes my breath away.
To know Jesus, I mean really begin to know Him, it is my humble opinion that each of us needs to know the Bible inside out and backward. We do this one bite at a time, day in and day out. AND, we need to walk daily in His felt presence through the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Think Acts Chapter 2. Without God's Word, every whim and emotion may lead us astray, but without His presence, Christianity is more theory than experience.
We need the balance of both. The written Word revealing the Living Word, King Jesus, in Holy Spirit dunamis (power).**And when we walk in this balance, extraordinary living is ours – no matter what our circumstances are.