Author: JXCirrus

# Selecting Prayers

The JXCirrus Prayer app selects a bunch of prayers for you to pray each day. The section lets you know how it does it...
When you create a prayer, you can set up a schedule for the prayer. The schedule will either give the prayer an urgency value, or have it prayed on particular days.

## Setting the Schedule

You set up the schedule for the prayer when you create it, or you can edit it later on. Either way, the Prayer Edit section covers this in more detail. From here you can selected whether the prayer will be prayed on set days or use an urgency value.

## Set Days

You can choose to pray a prayer every few days (such as every 3 days), or on set weekdays (such as Monday, Wednesday and Friday). When a prayer is set up like that, it will always be selected for prayer on that day.

## Urgency

If you pick urgency instead, the app selects the more urgent prayers more often. An urgency value of 1 is least urgent. Prayers with a value of urgency higher than 1 will be prayed more often. Here is how it works:

- The prayers score is Urgency + "The number of days since it was last prayed".
- When the app goes to select the prayers, it picks the prayers with the highest scores.

For example, a prayer with a urgency of 1 that hasn't been prayed for 5 days will have a higher score than a prayer with urgency 4 that was prayed yesterday.

## How Many to Pray

Each prayer gets a certain number of prayers selected each day (which you can set up using the Prayer Type). If you mix up prayers that are prayed on set days and prayers with an urgency, then the app always picks the prayers that get prayed on set days first.
For example: You want to pray 5 prayers, and 3 prayers are prayed on Tuesday (lets imagine today is Tuesday). This means 2 prayers will be picked based on urgency.
One trick though... If you have lots and lots of prayers, then the app may pick more each day to make sure prayers don't end up getting neglected.

## Deciding for yourself...

But... At the end of the day, you can still pick the prayers you want to pray. When you look at the details of a prayer, there is a "Pray?" checkbox partway down the screen. Tick this to pray the prayer today. Un-tick it if you don't want to pray.
This lets you override what the app selected.
There are a couple of ways to get to that screen:

- Click on one of the lists under "All of my prayers..." on the Main Screen. From the Prayer List, pick a prayer, and you will be in the details view.
- When you are reviewing prayers, you can pick what to pray from there.

## Focus Prayers

In addition to prayers that you want to pray once in a day, there are also focus prayers. These are prayers that you might want to focus on for the rest of the day. To mark as prayer as a focus prayer, use the button on the Prayer Details dialog.

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