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 a hedge of thorns around my husband . He used to serve in our church 12 years and innlast couple of years has quit going . I have found him on multiple dating websites and texts on his phone with other women , along with drinking alcohol again and some other things . Our marriage has suffered great damage and I am still praying and trying to be the best wife I can for him . Please join me in prayer for him to confess his sin to God and return to a right relationship with him , also that he would confess to me and reach out to restore our marriage . Thanks so much
My husband has been cheating on me since we got married, his family supports it. Lately our son, in a bid to ge back to him and his father’s siblings, has taken up with the habit of picking things (stealing), he’s threatening to re-design his destiny educationally. His father has cut off from me and intends to have children from several ladies, bring them home. Pls I need God to save my marriage. I have endured pain, abuse, shame, battering from siblings.
Please. Pray for my husband Ray and our marriage rrstoration..
Please pray for my husband Mark and our marriage for restoration.
Please pray that my husband feels convicted to turn away from his lover. Honor our vows. Return to the Lord which he needs to do. Pray for conviction in his heart. That he is unable to lie anymore and be unfaithful behind my back. May he return to Jesus and his marriage that he made the vows to.
My husband has left and is living with his girlfriend. Prayers for a hedge of thorns and this relationship to no longer be of desire. For them to turn from each other to never look back. All things he was finding pleasure in to be removed. Angels to block his path. Come to him in his dreams and while awake, may there be no peace and his troubles mount. The Lord God to grant him repentance and change his heart. May he have a desire in his heart for me and our marriage like he has never experienced before. The spirit of adultery, rebellion and pride to be bound and loosened. May all that is hidden that he is finding pleasure in be exposed and all pleasure to be removed. May he seek His Lord first and marriage restoration. What is impossible with man is possible for the Lord. Hear my prayers oh Lord as i bring my husband to your throne. I plead the blood of Jesus over him and this marriage. You are stronger than he who is in this world. What satan has come to destroy you will restore as according to your will. I believe you and trust you are working. I love you Lord and thank you.
Pl pray for my family n especially my husband who has strayed into another relation. Heavenly Father keep us united in u always.
Please pray for me and my husband bobby. He has been unfaithful towards me with both men and women. He thinks I don’t know but I do. It breaks my heart because I thought he would never hurt me or cheat as he promised me. I want our relationship to go back to how it was in the beginning with never ending love affection and passion. I don’t know what happened, if it was me or if he’s always been this way. I would like you too pray for us that this sin be removed and he only wants intimacy with me. Please pray that he stops these acts of adultry and is with me and me only so I can feel that love and securness in the relationship that I thought we had..in Jesus name amen
Pl pray that my marriage of 15 years be restored again. May we both accept Jesus and I pray that the Lord enlighten my husband’s mind and save him from adultery
Please pray for my wife Kristi and I. We have been seperated for over a year and she is currently living with another man. She tells me that she loves me but I can clearly see the confusion and sadness in her face. The other man that she is with is belittling, angey, controlling and abusive towarsds her. Please pray for her to see the truth and to come home to her family, husband and children where she is loved so dearly. Thank you!
Please pray for for unfaithful wife Erika and the restoration of our marriage and relationship. She has moved with all our belongings to an unknown place to me.
Please pray for me, my husband Tom and our children. Thank-you. God Bless your ministry.
Please pray for my marriage. My husband jeff lives with a woman. Iam disabled and now must support myself. It has been 5 yrs and he remains estranged from me. The pain of being rejected, betrayed, and replaced is more than I can bear still after all these years, but I know God is a God of the impossible. Please pray and stand in agreement with me for a miracle of complete restoration of my marriage and the return of my husband to me and to the Lord.
Thank you for this prayer God bless you
Please pray for my husband and I to have a restoration and rejuvenation in our marriage. Pray my husband [Kent] becomes close to the Lord again, bringing him closer to Jesus, with a change in his heart for his wife and children. Pray the “other woman” [Rebekah] comes to know Jesus Christ, and that God sends her an unmarried man of the Lord to sweep her away. Pray to mend the broken marriage, the broken hearts, and the broken faith.
Please pray for my husband Albert who has stepped out on our marriage and broken the Covenant of set marriage I pray . Please pray a hedge of protection around him so that he can return to the Covenant of our marriage and then we can be strengthened I worship God as we should these women specifically one I set her heart desire planning and she cannot she will not have my husband so I pray to stay 4 you to help me in prayer and thank you for praying for me again.