Here’s Pastor Nate Winters reponse to the question above:

It’s a good question, but a tough one for a number of reasons: (1) God has spoken through His Word, the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21), and God has spoken through The Word, His Son (John 1:1ff, Hebrews 1:1-3), and yet does God “still” speak somehow?   (2) If and when God speaks does He communicate to individuals: in other words, does God grant “private revelation” in addition to ongoing General Revelation (Romans 1:20) and the enduring testimony of Special Revelation, the Bible (Isaiah 40:8)?   (3) If God communicates to individuals, does He communicate such that they “hear” Him clearly enough to understand exactly what He has said (and can/should such a message from God be recorded as additionally and equally authoritative with what God has already said in the Bible)?

Frankly, a gazillion volumes have been written on this question and all sorts of Christian, even Evangelical, traditions, have come with varied and conflicting understandings.   This is not an answer, but here are a few texts I find helpful:

1. 1 Corinthians 2: we have been given the Holy Spirit who communicates to our spirit what God intends for us.   The Holy Spirit knows God’s thoughts and communicates to us such that we comprehend “what God has freely given us (v12)”.   The implication is that this message –the thoughts and intentions of God for us- is spiritually “discerned” (v14) by an individual soul such that the soul understands.
2. 1 Corinthians 13: some have claimed that particular “spiritual gifts” (or “sign gifts”) have ceased –these gifts can no longer be utilized within the Body of Believers and that any expression of them is somehow a counterfeit.   Personally, I cannot accept this claim only because I haven’t read anywhere in Scripture where any spiritual gift is said to have ceased.   1 Corinthians 13:8 says that “prophecies will cease” but the implication is that they have not yet ceased and that they will not cease until “perfection comes (v10)”.    I equate this Perfection with Jesus Christ: all will be made perfect upon His return, or (second) coming.   Still, if I believe that God has spoken to me personally and audibly, I must bring that message before the scrutiny of Scripture.   Private revelation must square with Special Revelation to be valid; we know God has spoken to us in the Bible and God will never contradict Himself to any individual because God cannot lie (Numbers 23:19).
3. Psalm 119: I have no business attempting to interpret God’s personal, audible words to me if I have not already submitted myself to the authority of His Word as He presents it to me in the Bible.   What is my attitude regarding God’s Word as judge of my heart (Hebrews 4:12)?   Do I take joy in God’s Word ruling over me the way that David did?   Do I cherish the strength of God’s Word and its ability to clean in me what must be clean and break in me what needs to be broken (Jeremiah 23:29)?   Do I see God’s speech as beautiful (Psalm 12:6)?   Am I able and willing to use God’s Word as necessary (Ephesians 6:17)?