Jonah chapter 2 questions for consideration

Questions regarding Jonah Chapter 2:
In this chapter we see the themes of descent and ascent. These connect to the correlation between death and life contending for control, as well as the struggle between God (Yahweh) and Jonah. Where do we see these forces contending for power and control today (death and descent over life and ascent)?
Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Descent! What does this immediately remind you of? In Jonah 3:3 we'll see that Jonah had to walk for three days to get from one side of Nineveh to the other. If "three days" conveys a great distance, "three days and three nights" conveys a longer time! The belly of the great fish and three days in the evil city of Nineveh connect with descent. Remember that Paul prayed "three times" for God to deliver him from his thorn in the flesh (2 Cor. 12:8).
It is interesting that when Jonah prays to Yahweh from within the "mother' fish (v. 7), Jonah appropriately moves from death to life. How does prayer effect this for us? For others? What does this say about God's desire for relationship with us?
Jonah's predicament causes his prayer to God. In turn, the prayer causes God to speak to the fish with the effect that the fish vomits Jonah onto dry land. Embedded in the belly of the fish, unpredictable Jonah prays. Is it OK for people to pray for God's deliverance when they get in a predicament that they cannot extricate themselves from? Why is it that some might feel the answer to this is "No!"
In a situation of dire calamity, he prays not a lament (complaining and grieving) or complaint song asking to be delivered form danger (as the sailors did in 1:14)' instead he prays a psalm of thanksgiving asserting that he has already been delivered. What does this tell us about the power and possibilities available through prayer and faith?
The journey begun when Jonah went down to Joppa (1:3) and continued when he went down into the ship (1:3) and down into the innards of the ship (1:5). Yet the present setting of water, the deep, weeds, and mountains is strangely incongruent with the belly of a great fish. There is then the great reversal. The evil of Nineveh has already "come up" before God (1:2), a plant yet to be appointed will "come up" to shade Jonah (4:6). Jonah emerges from the pit! God is clearly in the business of "bringing up." What are things that we don't want to "bring up?" Are there topics in your family that you're afraid to "bring up?" Why? Can you "bring up" issues as you deem it appropriate to find those involved in those specific issues that need to be "brought up" into God's love, presence, and healing? Are there things going on in our church right now that are should not be brought up? Why? What should be brought up? Why? What are we trying to "bring up" in spite of increased anxiety and stress? (new nontraditional worship service)
In spite of Jonah being self-centered (vv. 8-9) with his counterfeit piety, deliverance belongs to God! Who are we to determine who and how God seeks to deliver others?