The Bible will always have first place in the life of the spiritual Christian.
It is of utmost importance that we understand this, for some who feel themselves quite spiritual give much time to prayer, but little, if any, to the study of the Word. Such have actually fallen for the subtle trick of the adversary to play upon their natural human pride and cause them to exalt self and push God into the background.
In saying this we do not for one moment minimize the importance of prayer; we only stress the supreme importance of the holy Word of God. In this we are surely Scriptural, for David says, by inspiration:
βFor Thou hast magnified Thy Word above all Thy nameβ (Psa. 138:2).
Of those who would still object and place first emphasis upon prayer rather than upon the Word, we would ask one simple question: Which is the more important, what we have to say to God or what He has to say to us? There can be but one answer to this question, for obviously what God has to say to us is infinitely more important than anything we might have to say to Him. Our prayers are as fraught with failure as we are, but the Word of God is infallible, immutable and eternal.
Yet some, having fallen for one of Satanβs βdevicesβ and feeling quite spiritual about it, are like the talkative person to whom one listens and listens, occasionally nodding his head, but receiving little or no opportunity to βget a word in edgewise.β They do all the talking, but give little time listening to what God has to say to them. source
[β¦] Thus those who, spiritually undeveloped, were able to digest only the milk, or the simple things, of the Scriptures, were called βcarnalβ and βbabes,β in contrast to those βspiritualβ believers who had grown in grace and were able to assimilate the deeper, richer truths of the Word of God. [β¦]