That he would be still before God.
“Now, we need to be still before Him, so as to hear His voice and allow Him to pray in us – nay, allow Him to pour into our souls His overflowing life of intercession, which means literally: FACE TO FACE meeting with God – real UNION and COMMUNION.”
~Praying Hide; (emphasis in the original)
“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10)
“Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.” (Habakkuk 2:13)
“Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.” (Exodus 18:11)
“Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.” (I Chronicles 29:11)
“Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.” (Deuteronomy 4:36)
“18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest… 22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels… 24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” (Hebrews 12:18,22, and 24)
“And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.” (Exodus 33:11) And God can speak to your pastor the same way, as your pastor is still and quiet before Him. “For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” (Isaiah 30:15a)
Turn Again to the Lord