“One who walks with integrity, practices righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart.” (Psalm 15:2, NASB) 

There is a Godly language of the heart that is native to Him who is love. Every nationality has its own tongue, including the kingdom of God. The languages include not only words, but expressions, cadence, musicality, and reflect the culture. Some things are best understood by people raised in the kingdom whose language it is.

When we are born again, we are not only birthed with a new spirit, we also begin to learn the language of a new kingdom, the kingdom of God. This is why at Shavuot in the book of Acts, Pentecost in Greek, we see the manifestation of new tongues.

“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.” (Act 2:1-4, NASB)

Most people assume this was the gift of unknown tongues. Actually, it was spoken in known tongues but known to the listeners and not the speakers. This was the miracle.

“And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together and they were bewildered, because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.” (Act 2:6, NASB)

What I want to emphasize here is that it was a new language of the kingdom that could be understood but came from the heavenly realm. That is the language I want to speak. To speak it as adults we need to understand how it works. The first key ingredient is truth. Yeshua tells us:

“and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”” (Jhn 8:32, NASB)

Knowing the truth is a statement of intimacy. The deeper our understanding of the truth the greater the holy language of the heart. The language of the Holy Spirit in our heart will ALWAYS be based on truth.

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. (Joh 16:13 NKJV)

Truth is the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. Accessing truth releases us from the system of life and death and opens eternity. This is why the truth has the power to set us free. We get free through knowing more truth. Another way of saying this is we get free through knowing more of Jesus.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (Joh 14:6 NKJV)

In Hebrew the word for “knowing” is “yada”. The word knowledge, da’at, (דעת), from the verb yada (ידע), to know, has a heavy footprint in the Bible. It began in the Genesis story with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9) and continued on as something God wants us to seek with His guidance.

At the root of knowing is intimacy. Intimacy is the most treasured quality in God’s reality. Intimacy is the basis of faith expressed through trust. If I believe in you then I have already decided to trust in you and the truth of your word. I put my confidence in the one whom I trust.

At the root of trust is the release from conditions. The Greek word translated as love is “agape” love. We say this form of love is “unconditional”.

Trust may be of necessity be earned, but once it is proven it is without conditions. We learn to trust in Jesus and then we learn to trust that He is for us and not against us and that His plans for us are for good.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (Rom 8:28 NKJV)

The opposite to this holy language of the heart which is based in truth is a different tongue or a different language. This language is derived from conditions, from works. In this language system I listen to you if you prove yourself to me and everything is derived from a system of enforcement and consequences. This is the place of contracts and treaties.

We see this played out on the world stage as different entities arrive at truces and ceasefires as beginning steps to contracts with consequences. It should be obvious that this is not the language of love, but a language based on fear. This is our worldly tongue.

Conflict is at the root of the world’s mother tongue. Its main voice is the voice of Satan, who is named the adversary or the accuser in a legal context. There is no grace or forgiveness in Satan’s native language. He challenges the love of God in everything he speaks. We see this play out early in Genesis and then summarized in Revelation.

“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night. “And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.” (Rev 12:10-11, NASB)

Accusation is the native speech of the enemy of our souls. What is the consequence of accusation? How do I feel when someone accuses me of something? I’m defensive, aren’t I? This is what I found in my own life. I lived and still do to some extent in a state of defensiveness. I

In a state of defensiveness, I am always trying to prove myself. Why do I do that? It is because I am speaking the language of the accuser in my own heart. A person who struggles with their own worth is frequently a defensive person. They are always trying to prove themselves! Truly it doesn’t matter what they have accomplished because it is never enough to overcome the feelings of needing to defend and prove oneself.

What people don’t realize is that what drives our need to prove ourselves is really the language of the heart that is based in accusation. It is as if I am always on trial trying to prove that I am OK and not guilty of some failure that undermines my feelings of being worthy. This is the satanic manipulation of all works base religion.

What this does is rob me of the joy of my salvation. We see this in the story of David after the failure in his life with Bathsheba and the killing of Uriah. Looking at Psalm 51

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone into Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight-- That You may be found just when You speak, [43] And blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. (Psalm 51:1-12 NKJV)

Even in this case of grievous sin, David was recognizing that the true problem was being conceived in a system of sin that drives us to sin in service of trying to prove that we are worthy through some standard of the world. In David’s case it was sexual conquest. Yet the emptiness of this left him finally recognizing that he could only have joy through God’s salvation.

This is a language change. We natively speak the language of the flesh, of the accuser. These voices run in our minds and hearts automatically. To live in joy we need to speak a different holy language.

When Lisa and I and our family moved to Israel making Aliyah in 2006, the first thing we had to do was learn to think and speak in Hebrew. We were enrolled in language intensive, 5 hours a day 5 days a week. The instructors spoke to us totally in Hebrew. As I struggled my mind kept translating the Hebrew I was hearing in English, the language I thought in. The problem with this is that translation is too slow. I realized that to communicate I had to get enough Hebrew inside to have it be the language I relied on.

An additional challenge I had was that as a little boy, I lived in Spain, and I later studied Spanish in school. When I would try to think in Hebrew, Spanish would fill in the blank. I realized I needed a breakthrough. I prayed and sought the Lord and He heard my prayer. Within a few days, I started thinking in Hebrew.

I realized that to truly live in a culture you need to think in the language of that culture.

The same is true with the language of the heart. In the beginning we learn to translate the thoughts and actions of our lives into the language of the kingdom. If we stop at religion, we never stop doing this. We literally live as aliens to the kingdom. We don’t think in our heart with the language of the kingdom. We need a breakthrough. This is called bringing our thoughts into the authority of Christ.

 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, (2Co 10:3-5 NKJV)

What is an anchor point? Truth. When we find ourselves defending ourselves, we need to return to truth. The Enemy will manipulate with our weaknesses and inadequacies. What he wants us to do is try to cover up and hide the weaknesses because he wants us to think that if people know then it will reveal our lack of worth. This is called shame.

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb 12:2 NKJV)

It is by acknowledging our weaknesses and allowing His grace to have its perfect work that we enter truth and are set free!

Activation: What are you covering up. What do you think that if it was found out, you would be exposed as a phony? It’s time to allow the truth to be the language of your heart!