Sometimes I feel like charismatic Christians are in danger of ignoring the Holy Spirit. This might seem like an odd thing to say, charismatics are the ones who believe in the gifts of the spirit continuing today and are eager to hear from God through prophecy and tongues and so on. I dont think that is a problem, indeed I am eager to hear more prophetic words shared in my Church and I love it when people bring a tongue which is then translated. I do think though that openness to the charismatic gifts comes with a serious health warning.
The primary way we hear from God today is through the words in the Bible. This has been the case ever since Moses starting writing the first scriptures down and will continue to be the case until we are in heaven. For sure at various times God has used prophets to speak clearly to his people, but that has only ever been necessary because they werent actually reading the scriptures at the time (or they were reading them, but not understanding them).
No matter how wonderful the gifts of the spirit are, we must always look first to the Bible for our guidance, first to the Bible to hear from God. When we do receive prophecy we must turn first to the Bible to test it before we acknowledge it as true. I love the gifts of the spirit, but if people are using them as an excuse to put the Bible second then something is seriously wrong. The Spirit will always speak to us through the Bible primarily, lets not ignore him.