---
title: "Editing & Deleting Prayers"
description: "## Managing Your Prayers PrayerConnect allows you to edit or delete your own prayers at any time. These options are available on the **View Prayer** page — simply click on any prayer card from your Dashboard or the Prayer Wall.…"
url: "https://support.prayerconnect.church/docs/editing-and-deleting-prayers/"
updated: "2026-10-14"
category: Prayer Management
---

# Editing & Deleting Prayers

## Managing Your Prayers

PrayerConnect allows you to edit or delete your own prayers at any time. These options are available on the **View Prayer** page — simply click on any prayer card from your Dashboard or the Prayer Wall.

### Editing a Prayer

To edit a prayer:

1. Click on the prayer card from your **Dashboard** to open the View Prayer page.
2. Click the **“Edit”** button at the bottom of the page.
3. Update any of the following:
   - **Prayer request text** — Rewrite or refine what you’d like to pray about
   - **Sharing** — Share publicly so others can pray with you, or keep the prayer private. Shared prayers are public, including on PrayerConnect’s social media.
   - **Urgent** — Mark or unmark the prayer as an emergency
   - **Anonymous** — Show your name as “Anonymous” everywhere the prayer appears
   - **Organizations** — Change which organizations the prayer belongs to
   - **Category tags** — Add or remove category labels
4. Click **“Update Prayer”** to save your changes.

### What Happens After Editing

When you edit a prayer, it goes through the full processing cycle again:

- The prayer status changes back to **“Processing”** (shown as a yellow card on your Dashboard)
- The previous AI-generated prayer text is cleared
- A **brand new prayer** is generated based on your updated request
- The prayer goes through content moderation again before going live
- While processing, the prayer temporarily disappears from the Prayer Wall and Prayer Display

Your prayer’s view count and history are preserved — only the prayer content is updated.

### Changing Anonymous Status

You can change whether a prayer is anonymous at any time by editing it:

- **Make anonymous:** Check “Post anonymously” to show “Anonymous” instead of your name. Copies already posted to social media keep the name they were posted with; email us to have those posts removed.
- **Remove anonymity:** Uncheck the box to show your name again

Note that editing a prayer triggers re-processing, so the prayer will temporarily return to Processing status.

### When to Edit

You can edit a prayer in **any status**:

- **Active prayers** — Update a prayer that’s already live
- **Processing prayers** — Change a prayer before it finishes processing
- **Rejected prayers** — Fix issues flagged by the content moderation system and resubmit

This is especially useful for **rejected prayers** — if the Review Notes on the View Prayer page explain why your prayer was flagged, you can edit the text to address the issue and resubmit.

### Deleting a Prayer

To delete a prayer:

1. Click on the prayer card from your **Dashboard** to open the View Prayer page.
2. Click the **“Delete”** button at the bottom of the page.
3. A confirmation dialog will appear asking you to confirm.
4. Click **“Delete Prayer”** to confirm.

### What Happens After Deleting

Once you delete a prayer:

- The prayer is removed from your **Dashboard**
- The prayer is removed from the **Prayer Wall**
- The prayer is removed from all **Prayer Displays**
- The prayer’s view history and map data are no longer accessible
- **This action cannot be undone**

### Important Notes

- You can only edit or delete **your own prayers** — these buttons do not appear on prayers submitted by other users.
- Editing counts toward the same **rate limit** as submitting new prayers (10 per hour).
- The Edit and Delete buttons are only visible when you are logged in and viewing your own prayer.