"The Word of the Lord Came to Me"

This morning I was reading in Ezekiel and I noticed the phrase "the Word of the Lord came to me". I checked and found that it occurs 49 times in the book of Ezekiel. What struck me as significant is that many times we try in our own efforts to find what God would have us to do. Though we are to actively seek the leading of the Lord we must remember that it His leading and He will reveal it to us. The most important aspect of finding and knowing God's will is to be in His Word. Many people seek it in a mystical way but that leaves us open to many errors. The Word of God is consistent but we must be consistently in the Word.
Sometimes someone comes and tells you that God has told them and they expect that you will heed their word. Though their word may be truly from the Lord we must take that word back to God's Word and see if it is affirmed by Him.
If we trust our feelings we will be like many who have been misled in the past and are being misled today. I just listened to the testimony of one man who claims that his authority came to him from angels, a female angel. Is this consistent with Scripture? I find nothing in Scripture to reinforce his claim. If he claimed that his leading had come to him while spending time alone with God in the Word and then was able to show it from the Word then their would be a reason to listen to his message.
Paul said that "Christ died according to the Scripture". How did he know that? One thing is that he was a faithful student of the Word and God revealed it to him through His Word. He was like Ezekiel who said, "The Word of the Lord came to me."