Are you exercising the gifts God gives you in the spirit of love?

Paul’s context in 1 Corinthians 14 is more focused on what the Corinthian Christians do when they come together as a church than on what they do in their own devotional life.

Desire To Build Up The Church (14:1-5)
Unintelligible Sounds Help No One (14:6-12)
Engaging The Mind (14:13-19)
Be Mature (14:20-25)
Orderly worship when together (26-40)

There was nothing wrong with the Corinthian Christians’ desire for spiritual gifts. But they made a godly desire into an obsessive pursuit, when the main pursuit for Christians should be love.

Notice the emphasis made in verses 3-5. Three times Paul emphasizes that gifts were to be used for the building up of the body.

Revelation: Paul may speak of his own awareness of unique inspiration as an apostle. There may have been times when Paul knew with apostolic authority His words were directly and infallibly from God.
Knowledge: Paul may speak of his own knowledge, or by supernatural knowledge given by the Holy Spirit. Whichever, the knowledge was communicated in the language common to all, so all could profit.
Prophesying: Paul knew he could speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with a sense his thoughts and words were guided and blessed by the Holy Spirit.
Teaching: Paul could also profit others by speaking to them from the Scriptures themselves, teaching them as was his pattern in the churches he founded (Acts 15:35, 18:11, 28:31).

The listener should not only be able to understand what is being said, but that if something is worth saying in church it’s because it will result in people doing something.

Blowing a trumpet is supposed to make people get ready for their various military task; speaking in church is supposed to make people get ready to serve God in the world, whatever their calling may be.

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.