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 a hedge of thorns to surround my fiancé josh. I miss him an dneed him home for our son and my two daughters. Pray that he will no longer seek another woman’s attention and will return home where he belongs. Pray that he no longer needs to have an ego boost and seek attention from other women. Pray that I have the strength to wait for the lord to bless me with this pray and the return of my love back home. Pray that I learn to change my wrongful ways with holding my tongue instead of lashing out in anger at him. Please pray for my children and the return of their father.
Please pray for salvation for my husband Rusty, restoration in our marriage. And that he would come home. Communicate with me. Also please pray the heage of thorns prayer over him.
Please pray for my husband Alfred to answer the nudging of the Holy Ghost and return his heart to God so that through his love for God that he will leave all non covenant relationships and return to our marriage. Pray that God makes me and molds me into the woman that He would have me to be as His servant and wife of my husband. Prepare me to receive my husband when he returns.
Please pray for a miracle marriage restoration. Thy ow to be blessed and saved elsewhere, the healing of my kids. For hedge of protection over my H. That he come to his end now and repent to God while heartedly.
Please pray the hedge of thorns prayer for my husband, hazzie, please pray for me to be healed.
Please pray the hedge of thorns prayer for my husband, James, and for me to have patience, perseverance, and all faith and trust in God as I wait for the restoration of our marriage and conversion of James.
Thank you and God bless you.
D
I pray for my husband Kevin to stop running from God and toward flesh/ego-gratifying activities and relationships and begin following the Holy Spirit and walk in God’s will for him and our marriage and family. I pray for restoration and healing of our marriage and family. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
PRAY FOR RESTORATION OF MARRIAGE AND SON AND FATHER RELATIONSHIP RESTORED, Thank you.
I am praying for the same thing. Love to you, sister.
I pray and ask that Emmanuel my husband stops his unfaithful ways and stops chassing chatting flirting charming other women
I pray he stops cheating on me and keeps his eyes on our family and i
I have waited 17 1/2 years with him lying and cheating
I pray all his desires are turned back to me dear lord i ask in the mane of your son Kesus christ to please grant me
The full return and forever faithfulness of emmanuel thank you AMEN !
I am praying for the restoration of my marriage; that my husband Derek return to our home and stops chasing after women and ego-gratification. I pray that he is filled with the Holy Spirit and an understanding that the only way is through God. I pray for the healing of his soul. I pray that I have the patience and grace to keep standing for our marriage for as long as it takes, according to God’s will. I pray that God works to transform my heart, so that I can do his will.
I pray that my wife will be willing once again to work on our marriage. I pray that if a weapon comes upon us it will prosper but be cast away. I pray our hearts will be cleansed by the holy spirit. I pray if my wife is being persuade or if she is pursuing after someone else that God will interfere. I pray that my wife’s heart is filled with the desires to make our marriage work. I pray that she will honor the covenant of marriage will vowed. I pray that God will speak to her that going to bars and things she does is not his willing but of Satan. I pray that instead of going to bars it’s time for us to repair and work on our marriage. I pray for a better marriage than before.
Prayer for the restoration of my marriage and the changing of my unfaithful spouse`s mind.
I pray that the witchcraft that is binding my husband to his girlfriend and keeping him from returning to his family that love him is broken once and for all.
Seeking prayer that my husband would leave the other woman whom has him controlled with witchcraft. That what is binding him from seeing/knowing the truth be broken. Praying for my husband to return to our Lord and then to our marriage if it should be God’s will. I’m praying for his soul.
I pray that my husband quit chasing/looking for someone/something better than me. I have loved him for 13 years with quite a few emotional entanglements of women younger than me,I am 47 and he is 53.. Our marriage started off bad and has been Rocky from the start. He refuses to acknowledge it and claims all the bad times were on me. I asked him to be the head of the house, it was all thrown back on me. He is about to lose his job of 22 years if he can’t get this addiction to social media strangers under control. He is always looking/talking to half naked women and even came home a couple weeks ago wanting to send one over 1400. A few years ago he was chasing strippers and online escorts. Please put a shield around him that he only has eyes for me and our two small children 13 and 7 for we all need him to keep our family whole for I know the statistics of a broken home. As I have said he needs loving guidance to put away these things before it is too late.
Please pray for the complete restoration of Michael and I’s marriage in Christ. That my husband, Michael, would permanently come home to me and our family and be transformed by the Holy Spirit.