From the Institutes:

It is, therefore, by the benefit of prayer that we reach those riches which are laid up for us with the Heavenly Father…to us nothing is promised to be expected from the Lord, which we are not also bidden to ask of him in prayers. So true is it that we dig up by prayer the treasures that were pointed out by the Lord’s gospel, and which our faith has gazed upon.

In sort, it is by prayer that we call him to reveal himself as wholly present to us.

(Institutes III.X.2)

We reach, ask, dig up, call on him. He lays up treasure, promises, reveals his presence.

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