Jonah

In chapter one God tells Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it. Jonah had another plan in mind, he ran away from Nineveh and went to Joppa in the opposite direction. He got on a boat but God sent heavy winds and a storm. The sailors started freaking out and praying to all their own Gods. Then they cast lots to see who did it? The lot cast on Jonah who was sleeping below deck. The sailors woke him up and said "what should we do?" Jonah responded and told them to throw him overboard, but the sailors said no and tried to row back to shore...it didn't work. Then they threw him over and the sea calmed. Then a huge fish came and swallowed him and he was in there for three days and nights.
In chapter two Jonah prayed from inside the fish and told God that he would preach to Nineveh. God commanded the fish to spit Jonah onto dry land.
In chapter three Jonah obeyed God and went through the city and proclaimed that God would destroy them so they should wear sackcloth. When God saw that they did this he did not destroy them.
In chapter four Jonah was mad at God and said that it would be better for himself to die. The lord replied "Is it right for  you to be angry?" Jonah went out of the city and made himself a shelter to wait and see what will happen to the city. while he was there a leaf grew over his head and provided shade for him. The next day God sent a worm to eat the plant and it did. Jonah was very angry and God asked him if his anger was justified, he said it was.
The verse that I picked is:¹⁰ But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. ¹¹ And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
I picked this because it really puts God love and compassion into perspective. An example of this is when I was wondering why God wouldn't "speak" to me. One day it just finally hit me, why don't I talk to God in prayer? This was an impacting experience on me and has helped me to pray more every day.