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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