Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. Jonah 2:1-2
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple. Jonah 2:7
Jonah prays from the point in which he was furthest from God, from the place where he was miserable and had no way to contribute, from the place where he was helpless and desperate and afraid and hurting from Sheol – the grave, the place of the dead, hell. He calls on God and God hears him.
Pause and think about that for a moment. God of the universe, the Creator and the Sustainer, the One who spoke and hung the stars in the sky, who created the heavens and the earth and all the galaxies that exist, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Supreme Judge, the Holy One, the One who is all knowing and ever present and all powerful – that God! We too, can call on Him, and He will answer us in our times of struggle and despair.