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
Please pray for the restoration of our marriage and for my husband’s (Ronnie) to regaine his faith and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ. To give is wisdom and a forgiving spirit for each other. That make Ronnie forget the past hurts and we start our healing. I pray that the other woman will be reminded that she is destroying a God’s covenant to us our marriage. and that she may dream and see day and night the sin she is committing. May she know’s God and obey His words.
Please pray for my wife Darlene. Satan has hit her full blast(in the guise of an old”friend”), and our 22 year marriage is in grave danger. Pray the “hedge of thorns”prayer for her please, and I know that God will do the rest. Thank you in advance.
Please help me pray for my marriage to be restored , for my husband Aldwyn to come with me and my children and to stop being unfaithful to me. He had another affair and now there is a child. I love my husband and want him back. It’s been a year now and I have been praying daily for his return and I need strength and prayerful support to overcome and be victorious in this.
please for for my wife Fanny .K.I want her back after we quarreled because of her moving around with another married man.
i believe she will come back we will resolve .
amen
Good afternoon, please pray for my husband he believes in witchdocters and ancestors and he is suffering spirit of poverty is upon him, please pray for me
Please pray for my wife of 22 years, Darlene. She has been misled by a demon spirit from her youth, and after being a Godly woman for our entire marriage, has been manipulated and misguided by that same demon spirit. She seems oblivious to the path of destruction that she is on.Please pray for the strong hand of God to remove this demon from our life.
Please pray for my family… God has promised me reconciliation in my family ik God is going to do it in his timing.. what make the stand harder we are pregnant with our second child and it’s makes the stand a little harder but ik that our father in heaven will not put more then we can bear on us.
please give Me a hand on praying for my marriage.I was the reason of the hurt and I apologized at first and my husband forgiven me,suddenly to know he didn’t sincerely forgiven me..wants us apart.I cried bitterly but my faith tells me God will restore my marriage.Have been fasting and praying for God to soften his heart to forgive me.I love my husband .
Please pray for my husband’s salvation. Pray that he be restored to his Heavenly Father and our marriage revived by the blood of the Lamb. Pray for a hedge of thorns between him and all other women and ungodly relationships. Pray the heart of this father would be turned to his children and the hearts of our children turned to their father. Pray forgiveness abounds, pray I do not grow weary as I stand for the restoration of this marriage. Pray God’s glory be revealed quickly! In Jesus Name, AMEN!
Please pray for my spouse frank. He has given up his God to go after idols. He’s forsaken the women of his youth and has abandon his 8 children. The love of money is in his heart. His infidelity has cause him to have a heart of stone and I’m hoping that God will reach him and give him a heart of flesh. That his heart may break for what hurts God. I’m asking that God saves his soul. He walks in rebellion like the prodigal son. He’s in need of a savior. He was saved and returned to his old self if not worst. I don’t know what went wrong. Please help our family in prayer.
Please pray that my marriage would be restored and my wife Danielle would come back into our covenant with Almighty God. And keep God’s will and protection over our child and bind any generational curses or Jezebel spirit . In the name of our Lord Jesus . I will pray this prayer over my wife to hedge up her seeking other adultry affairs not pleasing in God’s eyes and forgive her in my heart as God has forgave me
Please pray for my husband who has moved out and is having an affair. I am praying the hedge of thorns prayer for him. I love this man and I want God to restore our marriage.
Pray for me my husband has left me to stay with mistress at her house.
Please pray for my straying husband, kurt. He has given his heart to another woman and is taking me to court to divorce me. I am standing for this covenant marriage. God is working on him, making him feel guilty, but instead on convicting him, the guilt makes him feel more justified in the divorce. Please pray that kurt will feel the Lord’s unconditional love and repent and turn from his sin and come back to our marriage to glorify God the highest!
Please pray for my husband Adam and I. I was the prodigal who left but God changed my heart and told me to start praying for my marriage. He is now with another woman and wants a divorce. Help me in praying against this divorce and against the other woman. Thank you! God is faithful! I will see my marriage restored!