The Wesleyan Church teaches that Scripture is the primary and normative revelation of God's will, but does not adopt a strictly cessationist position regarding all forms of continuing revelation. The church affirms the inner witness of the Spirit—the Spirit's testimony to adoption, assurance, and leading in the believer's life—as a genuine experience of the Spirit's voice.

However, the church is largely cessationist regarding formal prophecy in the New Testament sense: the giving of new revelation with the same authority as Scripture. Personal guidance, spiritual impressions, and the Spirit's illumination of Scripture are affirmed, but no new doctrine or practice can be established without clear biblical warrant. The church maintains that spiritual experience must always be tested against Scripture and that no experience can contradict or supplement the biblical revelation. The tradition of the church (as expressed in the Discipline) and reason also inform discernment, but Scripture remains supreme.