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title: Boosting a prayer
description: "Active prayers naturally fall down the Prayer Wall as newer prayers come in. When a need is still ongoing — a child's surgery delayed, a job search still in progress, a marriage still in difficulty — you can **boost** your…"
url: "https://support.prayerconnect.church/docs/boosting-a-prayer/"
updated: "2026-10-15"
category: Prayer Management
---

# Boosting a prayer

Active prayers naturally fall down the Prayer Wall as newer prayers come in. When a need is still ongoing — a child's surgery delayed, a job search still in progress, a marriage still in difficulty — you can **boost** your own prayer to re-surface it to the top of the wall.

### How to boost

1. Open your prayer's detail page (tap or click the prayer card on the Prayer Wall, or from your dashboard).
2. Below the prayer, look for the **Boost** button next to the Share / Edit / Delete buttons.
3. Tap it. The prayer immediately re-appears at the top of everyone's Prayer Wall, the same way a freshly-submitted prayer would.

The original date the prayer was submitted does not change — what changes is where it sorts in the feed. Anyone viewing the prayer detail still sees its real submission date.

### One boost per prayer per day

You can boost the same prayer **once every 24 hours**. After you boost, the button shows "Boosted" and is disabled until the cooldown clears. This is intentional — without the cooldown, the wall would become a contest for whoever boosts most.

If you have multiple active prayers, each one has its own 24-hour cooldown. You can boost three different prayers in a single day, just not the same one three times.

### What boost does NOT do

- It doesn't send a notification to anyone. The prayer just shows up at the top of the wall.
- It doesn't change the prayer's content or status.
- It doesn't earn you anything.
- It doesn't work on prayers you don't own. You can only boost your own prayers.
- It doesn't work on Pending or Flagged prayers — they have to be Active and shared first.

A boost stays in place: the prayer keeps its new spot on the wall and newer prayers flow in above it over time, just as they would for a new prayer. There's no "unboost" action. If the need is still ongoing later, you can boost it again once the 24 hours are up.

Sorting the wall by **Oldest first** ignores boosts and shows prayers in the order they were submitted.