We would like to share with you this hedge of thorns prayer. This is not the same as a hedge of protection prayer. The difference is the hedge of protection keeps what is external from coming in while the hedge of thorns prayer keeps what is in from going out.
You should only pray this prayer for people with whom you have a biblical covenant relationship. So this would be for an unfaithful spouse and you can also use this prayer for a prodigal child, drug addicted child, a child who is keeping company with gang related friends.
This prayer should not be prayed for your boyfriend, or girlfriend or someone whom you have feelings for that is not your spouse. That would be considered witchcraft because you are not in a covenant relationship with that person. You also don’t really know God’s will for that person so try not to let your emotions and feelings get control of you.
Likewise if you feel that someone who is not in a covenant relationship with you may be praying this over you, then you want to cut soul ties with them and pray this off of you.
Let’s look at the scriptures that talk about the Hedge of Thorns. There are actually 2 scriptures in the King James Version- one refers to laziness Proverbs 15:19 (we’ll cover that in a different post) and the other is Hosea 2:6.
We will focus in on Hosea 2:6. The book of Hosea is about the prophet Hosea and his unfaithful spouse. This book,while it can be taken literally, can also be looked at figuratively as the Church of Jesus Christ being unfaithful to God and chasing after things (idolatry) and not God. This is a spiritual unfaithfulness. Therefore if you see your child going after things that are not of God (prodigals, drug and alcohol addicted, bad company) you can use these scriptures to pray for them as well.
Let’s look at the scripture in context…
Hosea 2:5-7 (NKJV) “For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For 
she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.’ “Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths. She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.’
That’s pretty clear showing that these hedge of thorns keeps the unfaithful from going out and they return to the one with whom they are in a covenant relationship.
Hedge of Thorns Prayer:
Father God, I present to you this day ___________ and ask that you put the hedge of thorns, according to Hosea 2:6, around them to keep them from falling into sin. Cause them to not find the way of unfaithfulness. Cause these ungodly desires to not be fulfilled. May they return to a covenant relationship first and foremost with you, God, and secondly to the covenant relationship that You have ordained from the foundations of the earth. I pray for grace, patience and peace to guard my heart as I wait on You Lord to bring this prayer to fulfillment. I pray that You would send away all these ungodly desires. May _______ lose the desire to go that way, reveal to her/him that this way is destruction and against your will. Give him/her dreams and visions to see that the end is of no good. I pray that You will season my speech with grace so that I will know what to say and when to say it. I pray that you will cleanse my heart and root out any seed of bitterness. Give me grace to forgive. Put a guard over my mouth and show me how I can accommodate the reconciliation and restoration of this covenant relationship. If I have any responsibility in driving ______ away from you God and from this covenant relationship, please reveal it to me. Forgive me God and prepare me for their return. Guide them and me with your Holy Spirit, in Jesus Name, Amen.
If you want us to pray for your unfaithful spouse or your child, please write your prayer request below and we will pray for you and for them.
God Bless You.
Here are some other related prayers:
Prayer for Marriage Restoration
Prayer to Heal Broken Relationships
Prayer for a Hedge of Protection
I am asking for prayer warriors…please pray the Hedge of Thorns over my husband, Noel. I believe he is seeing another woman. He is also out 5 nights a week, getting drunk. We have been together 20 years, married for 13 years. He says he doesn’t love me and wants out. He is an unbeliever and needs salvation only Jesus can provide. I am praying the Hedge of Thorns over him as well. Please also pray for a Hedge of Protection over me, our marriage, and our home, as well as the Holy Spirit’s gift of clarity, discernment, love, gentleness and patience. Thank you, and to The Lord be the Glory, forever & ever, in Jesus’ name, AMEN.
I’m asking for prayers for me and my
Husband William he’s been gone from me
And our3 children for four months now
He’s “”staying with his friend who is a single man and out hear in this world with all
Kinds of woman and been waiting for this
Moment of our marriage breaking apart along with a few others my husband William say it’s no other woman but my heart feels different and him and I been down this road before and I don’t want to keep haveing to share my husband with any others he’s been gone for four months then he told me wait another 60 days? That’s just awful to hear and feel as a wife you want more time out in the world to do what you want then to be hear with me and the children I want my husband back home with us as a family start are lives all over but as time goes by my heart is starting to fade away from him it’s broken but it’s also fading it’s like he’s trying to play mind games with me to hurt me and make me feel bad I’m asking for prayers that satan take his hands off my husband William in the name of Jesus and I plead the blood of Jesus on the mistress That he’s with and I ask that the hedges of thorns around William path and his return home I pray him back with a better peaceful heart mind and soul and more humble to me and more Lovein to me and more respect and I pray God take all of the bitterness out his heart he has for me take it all away and the Hardin heart he has I plead the blood of Jesus on each negative area of his life to flee in the mighty name of Jesus and he returns home soon with me and our 3 children and let the pass be the pass and for William never to return down that path ever again and I pray he get rid of all the negative people that means our marriage no good I pray and as God to give them negative people they walking shoes out our marriage and depart far from us and never return I pray and ask God to give them enough of they own to Focus on in they own marriages and relationships and bind them hear on earth also in heaven rebuke them all away and all they evil spirits far from me and my husband marriage I pray God bless and restore our marriage our home our love for one another I pray all this in Jesus holy name Amen please help me pray for William return home
Please pray for my husband, Scott. I am a recent cancer survivor. He wasn’t emotionally able to handle my cancer diagnosis and treatment and started having an affair. I know that he loves me, but, he is being misguided.
Please pray for my family. My husband is having an affair for at least 6 months and I believe (in hindsight) has been looking for one longer than this. This OW is pushing him to divorce me and is interfering in our lives (we have 3 children who need their father, especially our youngest). He needs be restored to God in a mighty way and then to us, his family, with all demonic influences purged from him. This OW needs to be removed supernaturally from his life so that he can see clearly the destruction he is causing, with God’s help. I also pray that he seeks help from his pastor immediately.
Please pray for my spouse and I. He has drifted from our heavenly father and from our marriage. Please pray the he will return to our marriage and be there for me as well as out unborn child. Thank. You and god bless
Please pray for full and complete restoration of my marriage to better than it was. Pray that God moves swiftly in my wife’s(Donja) heart to separate her and this Jacob she’s been seeing at her work. pray for the hedge of thorns to be raised around her. We have been married for nearly 4 yrs and have been blessed with two beautiful boys 4 and 18months. Pray for healing as we lost the little girl (misscarried at 10 weeks) we wanted in aug 2016 and after this our marriage fell apart.
Please pray for my husband Joe who is unfaithful. May our Lord give me the courage to continue this sorrowful walk. May He enlighten my husband to return to the Catholic Church and begin to receive all the sacraments.
Please pray for my wife Willa who abonden me for another man and drugs I love her and I know she loves me but the drugs have got ahold of her and I do not want a divorce she is the love of my life and she means the world to me I want to spend the rest of our lifes together as husband and wife.
Thank you.
Please pray for my husband sam that God builds a hedge of thorns around him, that God separates him from Irene as far as the east is from the west. That my husband looses interest in Irene / adultery. That God fills him with love, peace, forgiveness, dedication, honestly for his marriage and family. That when his with Irene his mistress he feels the need to be away from her, that he sees her for who she really is and know He needs to be with his wife and family! That God convicts his heart of all the pain he’s caused me and the kids. That he has vision, dreams or god speaks to him to be set free of kp his addictions and love his family / accept god as his savior! That the blood jesuscover us in Jesus name amen.
Please pray for my husband. He left me with our 7 month old 15 months ago. I was also only a few weeks pregnant with our second son. By law we are required to be separated for a year before divorcing and we reached our one year separation in March. However, because our attorneys never reached an agreement our legal papers purged and we have to start the process all over again, so we are still married. His sister is very manipulative and controlling and influenced him to leave us. So, I’ve been fasting and praying that God would remove the veil over his eyes, give him a new heart , and send him back home to his family. I would greatly appreciate the prayers!
Please pray for my marriage to Jeff. He left me 3 1/2 yrs,ago. I have also contributed to this as I have called him names. He is living with woman who was once a friend of mine. He says he has no relationship with her yet he continues to live with her. She has nothing to do with me anymore.
Pray for me to know what to say and how to say it.
Thank you for your orayers
God bless you
Please pray for my husband Rodney’s Salvation. Pray that God will change his heart and draw him closer to him. Also I ask God to remove all ungodly relationships that have taken place in his life. I pray for the other woman that she would start to seek after Jesus and drink of his water. I ask God to reign grace and mercy upon them both as he starts to change their lives. Please pray for my Friend Shel’s husband Troy that God will start to do a good thing in him as well. That God will start to speak to our lost prodigals just as he did the prodigal son and that we will be standing waiting just as the father did to welcome them home. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah Glory to God!!!
Please pray for my husband
Please pray for my husband Bronson he has cheated and filed for divorce and left me and our 3 month old son all in less than a month.
Please pray for my wife, Shanna, so that she will return to me and reconcile with me and restore the covenant relationship that God ordained between us. Pray that her lovers will depart and never return to her and that she will not seek them. Pray that God will give her dreams and visions to see that there is not a good end to what she is doing. Pray that I receive grace to forgive and that God seasons my speech to know what to say and when to say it. Pray that God will root out any bitterness in me and cleanse me of it. Pray that I receive patience to wait on Him to work in His time to restore Shanna to me. Pray that I receive victory against this evil that is trying to destroy my marriage. Pray that the Holy Spirit will guide me and Shanna to return to each other. Through Christ I pray, Amen. Thank you and God bless you