Like Jonah, we also should pray desperate prayers for these reasons:
1. God responds to desperate prayers.
2. Desperate prayer closes the distance with God.
3. Desperate prayer transfers control to God.
4. Desperate prayer reorients our worship.
5. Desperate prayer leads to obedience.
6. Desperate prayer brings deliverance.
We have a saying "Good things come in little packages." This is certainly true when it comes to the Bible. There are short books of the Bible that we may never heard preached, know very little about and think they are insignificant. But they pack a powerful message for us in a little package.