Today I am sharing another part of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on riding with Him on the high places of the earth.

From the account of creation in Scripture, we understand that man did not participate in the six days of creation work. Man entered the picture on the seventh day, when the Lord’s work of creation had already been completed and everything was functioning according to His divine order. From this perspective, the Holy Spirit reveals that the Sabbath is not merely about ceasing from our ordinary activities. It is about entering a place where we delight ourselves completely in the Lord and give Him our undivided attention.

The Lord is calling us beyond a superficial expression of delight in Him into a genuine surrender in which we stop pursuing our own ways, pleasures, thoughts, judgments, decisions, and words. As we cease from directing ourselves independently of His leading and allow the Holy Spirit to govern our lives, we enter a dimension of His rest where we can ride on the high places of the earth and experience life from His perspective.

This is a call to move beyond the place of “just enough” into the overflowing bounty of the Lord’s oceans of glory. It is an invitation to become so yielded to the Holy Spirit that His wisdom, counsel, authority, and anointing can flow through us to influence circumstances, transform societies, and expand His Kingdom.

From the scriptural account of creation, man did not participate in the six-day work of creation. Man only entered the picture on the seventh day, when the Lord had already completed His work and everything was functioning according to His established order. This fact reveals an important spiritual principle, from the Holy Spirit’s perspective, that the Sabbath is not merely a day on which we stop our ordinary activities.

It represents a time for us to completely delight ourselves in the Lord, by turning our complete attention towards Him and giving Him our undivided attention. The Lord wants us to understand that entering His rest involves more than just ceasing from our outward inactivity. It requires a change in the way we live, think, speak, and make our life decisions. We must learn to cease from our independent self-direction and allow the Holy Spirit to establish His divine order in our lives.

The invitation to us is to enter the place where the Lord has completed His work, trust in His order, and allow His wisdom and leading to determine how we live. Rather than continually relying on our own understanding and striving to direct our lives through our own efforts, we must learn to surrender our hearts completely to the Holy Spirit.

The Lord makes His requirements clear in Isaiah 58:13–14, where we are instructed to stop doing what pleases ourselves on His holy day and instead make the Lord Himself our delight. To honour the holy day, we must refuse to walk in our own ways, which means that we cease to depend on our thoughts, opinions, judgments, and decisions that originate from ourselves to independently determine the direction of our lives.

The warning is that our own way, when pursued independently of the Lord’s input and leading, ultimately leads to death. Therefore, we must stop directing ourselves as though our own understanding were sufficient. We must make room for the Holy Spirit to instruct, correct, guide, and govern us, because the Lord also instructs us to stop seeking our own pleasure and speaking our own words.

These commands address the very foundation of how we live, and we cannot genuinely claim that the Lord is our delight while we continue to pursue our own desires, by insisting on our own opinions, and directing our lives without seeking His counsel. True delight in the Lord is demonstrated through our total surrender of our hearts to the Lord. It is revealed when His will becomes more important to us than our own preferences, to the point where His wisdom takes precedence over our judgments, and His direction determines the path we follow.

As we yield ourselves in this way, we then begin to experience the Lord’s rest—not simply as the absence of our human activity, but as a life brought into alignment with His purposes and divine order.
The commandment to stop speaking our own words connects directly with the declaration of Jesus in John 6:63, where He declared that it is the Spirit who gives life and that the flesh profits nothing. This reveals the importance of the source from which our words originate.

Human words that proceed merely from ourselves do not carry the same life-giving power as words given by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is therefore calling us to stop speaking merely from our own thoughts, emotions, opinions, and judgments. We must learn to speak in agreement with what the Lord is saying, and to only speak what “thus says the Lord.”

When the Lord’s words are placed in our mouths, they carry the life and purpose He intends to release on our behalf. His words always change circumstances and bring His purposes into manifestation. This requires us to become more sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s leading in our speech. So we must not assume that every thought we have needs to be expressed or that every opinion we hold should direct our conversations.

Instead, we must learn to surrender our words to Him, by allowing His truth and wisdom to govern what we say. As we cease from speaking independently of His leading and yield our mouths to the Holy Spirit, our words then become the instrument through which His life is released and His purposes are accomplished in our lives on this earth.

As we genuinely delight ourselves in the Lord, not by just merely calling Him our delight while continuing to live according to our own desires, we enter the place where He is. This brings us into the reality of riding on the heights, where we experience life from His vantage point and start living with the perspective of being seated in the heavenly places, far above all authority and power.

I declare that you will genuinely delight yourself in the Lord and you will cease from independently directing your own path and will yield your decisions, desires, and words to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Your mouth will become increasingly aligned with His truth, and the words He gives you will bring life and serve His purposes on the earth. I declare that you are hidden in the secret place of His Presence and protected from the strife of tongues and the plots of men.

I declare that you will no longer be ruled by the opinions of others or overwhelmed by the pressures of circumstances, but you will be directed by the counsel of the Holy Spirit and learn to see and respond to situations from the Lord’s vantage point. I declare that the anointing upon your life will produce much fruit that remains. So as you surrender to the Holy Spirit, the Lord will work through you to change circumstances, influence nations, transform societies, and reveal His righteousness.

I declare that you are riding with the Lord on the high places of the earth in complete rest. I decree that you are going higher with the Holy Spirit, by moving beyond the place of “just enough” into the overflowing fullness of His glory. Your life will radiate His Presence, produce lasting fruit, and reveal His righteousness to the world in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.