Prayer

Sojourn includes a comprehensive prayer management system that helps you organize, track, and practice your prayer life.

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Prayer Journals

Prayer journals organize your prayer requests into groups. Every user starts with a default journal ("My Prayers"), and you can create additional journals as needed.

Managing Journals

• Create — Click New Journal from the Pray page
• Rename — Edit the journal name from its detail page
• Set as default — Mark a journal as your default for new prayers
• PIN protection — Lock a journal with a PIN code to encrypt its contents
• Delete — Remove a journal (prayers are moved to your default journal)

PIN-protected prayer journals work the same way as note journals — contents are encrypted at rest and require PIN verification to access.

Creating Prayers

Standard Form

From a prayer journal, click to add a new prayer. The prayer form includes:

Field	Description
Prayer Request	The body text of your prayer
Asked By	The person who made this request (from your contacts)
Praying For	The person or thing you're praying for (from your contacts)
Event Date	An optional date associated with the prayer (supports natural language, e.g., "next Tuesday")
Tags	Custom tags to categorize the prayer
Journal	Which journal to save the prayer to

Quick Add

Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K) to open the command palette and select Quick add prayer. This opens a streamlined dialog for rapidly capturing prayer requests with:

• Rich text editor for the prayer body
• Contact mentions — type @ to mention contacts
• Tag mentions — type # to add tags
• Ctrl+Enter (or Cmd+Enter) to save quickly

Contacts

Contacts represent people associated with your prayers. Create contacts from the prayer form or during import, and use them to track:

• Asked By — Who asked you to pray for something
• Praying For — Who or what you're praying about

Tags

Create custom tags with colors to categorize and filter your prayers. Tags can be assigned during prayer creation, editing, or import.

Filtering and Sorting

The prayer list supports several ways to find and organize prayers:

Filter Tabs

Tab	Shows
All	All prayers in the journal
Active	Unanswered, non-archived prayers
Answered	Prayers marked as answered
Archived	Archived prayers

Sort Options

• Date added — Sort by creation date (newest or oldest first)
• Event date — Sort by associated event date

Grouping

• No grouping — Flat list
• Asked By — Group by the person who asked
• Praying For — Group by the person being prayed for
• Tags — Group by tag

Search

Use the search box to filter prayers by body text.

Prayer Actions

Each prayer card provides quick actions:

• Edit — Modify the prayer details
• Move to journal — Relocate to a different journal
• Mark as answered — Record the answer and optionally add a testimony
• Archive — Move the prayer to the archived state
• Emphasize — Mark a prayer as emphasized so it pins to the top of the list
• Delete — Permanently remove the prayer

Emphasized Prayers

Toggle the star icon on a prayer card to emphasize it. Emphasized prayers are pinned to the top of the prayer list (before your chosen sort order) and are visually highlighted with an amber left border and badge. You can also toggle emphasis from the Quick Add toolbar and the edit form.

Bulk operations are also available — select multiple prayers to move them to a journal at once.

Prayer Sessions

Click Session to start a guided prayer practice. Sessions help you focus on your prayer list with four modes:

List Mode

Review prayers one at a time. Each prayer is displayed as a card with its full text, contacts, and tags. Mark each prayer as "prayed for" to advance.

Flash Card Mode

Prayers are shown as cards that flip to reveal the full text. The front shows a summary and the person who asked. Tap to flip, then mark as prayed.

Focus Mode

A timed prayer mode with a countdown timer. Spend focused time on each prayer with play/pause controls. The timer tracks how long you spend on each prayer.

ACTS Mode

A structured prayer method following the ACTS framework:

1. Adoration — Praise and worship with Scripture prompts
2. Confession — Self-examination with guided reflection
3. Thanksgiving — Gratitude, including a list of your answered prayers with testimonies
4. Supplication — Present your prayer requests one at a time

Each phase includes a relevant Scripture verse for reflection.

Anti-Sleep Chime

During a prayer session, the anti-sleep chime plays a gentle sound effect at regular intervals to help you stay focused. Choose an interval when starting the session:

• 10 seconds
• 30 seconds
• 1 minute
• 2 minutes

You can configure your preferred chime sound from Settings > Prayer Sessions.

Keep Screen On

Prayer sessions automatically request a screen wake lock to prevent your device from dimming during prayer time. This works on supported browsers and releases when you leave the session.

Session Results

After completing a session, you'll see a summary showing:

• Total prayers in the session
• Number of prayers you prayed for
• Session duration
• The mode you used

Prayer Import

Premium Feature

Prayer import is available to premium users.

Import prayer requests from images of handwritten prayer lists, meeting notes, or printed prayer sheets.

Import Workflow

1. Upload — Drag and drop or select up to 5 images (JPG, PNG, WebP; max 10MB each)
2. Processing — AI extracts prayer text, contact names, dates, and section groupings
3. Review — Edit extracted prayers, assign contacts and tags, organize by sections
4. Choose Import Mode:
   • Append — Add imported prayers alongside existing ones
   • Smart Merge — AI detects duplicates and suggests updates
   • Replace — Remove existing prayers and replace with imported ones
5. Confirm — Apply the import and see a summary of created, updated, and deleted prayers

During review, you can:

• Edit individual prayer text
• Accept or dismiss AI-suggested contacts and dates
• Apply tags in bulk across selected prayers
• Drag and drop to reorganize between sections
• Convert section names into tags