What guides your faith in God?

Consider this simple question:
What is your faith in God built on?
Really, be honest.
Is it the Holy Spirit? Or is it your study's or the teachings of man?
There is a difference..........
The one (the Holy Spirit) knows all Truth, reminds us of all Truth (the Words of Jesus), and cannot lie or deceive.
The other, man or his teachings, are subject to his thinking and applications. He can lie, and he is swayed by the vanity and prowess that many times that position brings.
If the Holy Spirit is teaching, leading, guiding, there will be a deep sense of humility and rejoicing as the Truth sets you free. If it is of man or a man that is not "filled with the Holy Spirit" then you will only gain earthly wisdom, facts and tradition. When you stray from the Holy Spirit as the lead in your growth/faith, you will try to fill that void with books and teachings aside from the Bible wherein the danger lays. It is good if your so inclined to read about the lives and ministries of other "men of God" but the best "men of God" to read about made it into the Bible. Of which none can do so now. These are the men that God saw and made fit to be the example of what He requires of us and what He wants us to avoid.
The common denominator of all that are "born again" is to have this experience of being "filled" with the Holy Spirit. Not maybe, not "I think I am," not "I am saved so I am filled", NO! It is a completely separate experience which could happen at the time of salvation or shortly there after. There are "signs" that this has happened that are common to all who partake. Some may have to "tary" for it, some may have to "seek it with all their hearts", some may only have to be told that it is a part of  "salvation" to receive Him. But one thing for sure, anyone that is in leadership with in the church, must be "Spirit filled" to perform any duties, deacon, elder, bishop, teacher, pastor ect. Not a problem according to "design" as all who are saved must be filled. That is the Biblical pattern not to be broken. One cannot "Glorify our Father in Heaven" without the "moving of the Holy Spirit."
Are you joyful and grateful where you are with your relationship with God? If not, why not? Does Christianity seem rather dry and uneventful to you? I you are making the best with what you got then you don't have enough. When you have the Holy Spirit teaching and reminding you no matter what situation you have going you will have victory and "joy in the morning." Try being beaten and thrown in prison like Paul, then sing enough praises to "bring the house down." That is real strength which only comes from the Lord.
Only because of the baptism in the Holy Spirit have we been able to, with joy, over 38 yrs, wake up every morning with a song in my heart of praise or worship unto Him. Every morning when we get up and all day long we "EXPECT" God to move is some mighty way to glorify Himself  "in Jesus name." We look for it to happen!  He is our comforter, counselor, instructor, companion through this life time, in Him do we Trust.
The Holy Spirit is the first and only instructor for the "Body of Christ" by God's design whether by the we small voice or by the man led by Him to instruct.
I have never been bored with my walk of faith because "God is my Father" and He manifests Himself to those who seek Him, even daily.
God bless and keep.
In Christ's Love
Jerry and Elise