Is it safe to ignore the bible and rely solely on revelations from the Holy Spirit?

John 14:16
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

The Spirit's main means of operation is through the written word of God, and the word of God is ineffective apart from the empowerment and speaking of the Spirit of God.

Does God move in visions and dreams and revelations when we don't read our bible, does He act when we disobey His word? Undoubtedly He does.

Does this mean it is safe for us to ignore understanding the word of God and dilligent study of His ways?

When we give time and effort to diligent study, and endeavour to obey the word of God to the best of our ability, we are providing a template, a framework, materials in the form of ideas for His Spirit to speak, enlighten and move.

It can be compared to building a highway or an aircraft landing strip for the Spirit of God to speak and move in power and deliver gifts to us, rather than having Him try to hack through the swamp of the multitude of our fleshly thoughts in order to operate. The word of God gives us wise counsel and ministers life, provoking change, repentance, obedience. Obedience and submission to the word of God opens channels of peace and quietness in our hearts by which we can hear Him speak and can then obey further, opening channels for breakthrough and for the empowerment of the Spirit to function.

The word operates as a template, a pattern, a promise, an God-born idea that is planted in the heart, which the Spirit then comes to make experiential, through an encounter with His presence. The word teaches us what Jesus is like, what His motivations are, What His person feels and sounds like, what He values and what He hates, but the Spirit comes to give us a real contact, heart to heart relationship with Him and a real experience of infilling.

How do you know what spirit you are opening yourself up to apart from the word of God who tells you what Jesus is like? It is our agreement with the word of God that the Holy Spirit then uses to make us into a temple of the living God by filling you with power and coming in to speak with you, to empower you and to live the Christ life within you. The Spirit also empowers and causes the word of God to come alive in the first place.

What pattern does the Holy Spirit come to fulfill in us?

It is the pattern, the ways of living, it is the heart values of Jesus as revealed in the written word of God that the Holy Spirit comes to make flesh. The pattern of Christ, as revealed in the word of God, revealed through the Spirit.

Ps 119:97 Oh, how I love your teachings! They are in my thoughts all day long. If I could count the number of your thoughts they would overwhelm me. Thank God for His word, and thank God for the glorious operations of His Spirit which are one.