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
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Please pray for My husband MTA who has been lying to me about his involvement with another woman. This is not the first women he got involved with outside of our marriage. Our family needs God intervention desperately.
Please pray for my husband. We’ve been married for 19 years and have two beautiful children. I’ve discovered that my Husband have been having multiple affairs with multiple women for many years. Some of them, he is friend with their spouses. God I ask you build a “hedge of thorns” around my husband. I pray that through this hedge all these women will lose interest and depart. I base this prayer on Your Word which commands that what you have joined together, let not man put asunder.
Please pray for my wife and the restoration of our marriage. She has had two affairs and is now texting a third man.
Please pray for my husband Matthew to walk the path of our marriage that God has intended.
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Please pray for my husband. He is trying to find and have relationships with multiple women. He is not focused on our marriage. Please pray for our marriage to be restored . He has become cold and distant and he has stopped praying. Please help our marriage to be restored in love, failthfullness, and joy that we once had for each other.
please pray for my relationship of over 13years be restored.. pray I reconciled with the mother of my two kids as this is causing the children and I so much pain. I still love her and want her back into our lives,pray love to come between u and that we may desire only each other as wife and husband .. Amen
Please pray that my husband, Tom, and I be reconciled and our marriage restored. I pray that the strange woman be removed from our lives and delivered to her own divine purpose.
please pray for my daughter she has left her husband for another man and she is a christian and knows this is wrong and please pray for my son he is a recovering heroin addict please pray a hedege of thores around him to keep the devil herion desires away from him
Pls pray for Salvation of Strange Woman and for God to totally and completely remove her from our marriage and our lives!!!! God returned my husband and we are doing really good! PRAISE GOD!!! The SW keeps posting pictures of when he was in 6 month relationship with her, what should I pray for her to move on and stay out of our covenant MARRIAGE?? Thanks
Please pray for my husband Michael. He had 2 bipolar manic episodes that opened him up to deception and other things. He has been seeing other women and particularly a woman that was apart of our church. He has been destroying almost 30 year relationships with close friends and family. He is now pushing for a divorce and thinks our children a perfectly fine even though one of daughters was just diagnosed with autism. Sadly, he thinks he is doing God’s will, but at the same time I know he has many moments of knowing the direction he is going in is wrong and just keep making bad choices.
Please pray for restoration and reconciliation of him to God and our marriage and family to be healthy and for us to be the husband and wife God intended.
Please pray for my family. My husbad has been cheating and strays away from us. My son is in a battle with his faith.
Pray that we may find peace and restoration in our family.
In Jesus’ name. I claim and declare God is working on us already.
Please pray that my husband and I love each other as God loves us, that we see each other as God sees us, and that we desire only each other as a husband and wife bound by God.
Amen