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 restoration of mine and my husband’s marriage. He is having an affair and living with another woman who is verbally abusive to him. My husband is a great man who has lost his way. Always the first to help everyone, he used to go the extra mile for people he barely knew. Now he has pushed everyone in his life away because of this relationship. Family, friends, business relationships- everyone has fallen by the wayside in this adulterous relationship. I am working so hard to make myself a better person, for myself, for my husband and for God. Thank you so much- Natalee and Bud
please pray for my cheating husband Derby to come to his senses.
Pray for my husband Ejinio (EJ) to find his love for me again to reunite our marriage our family pray that he would stop his affair. We are divorce but I’m still not giving up til my heart gives up . Thanks Charlene
I ask for prayers for my husband. He has filed for divorce and left me for someone else but I truly believe God wants our marriage and he has tried communicating with my husband but has failed to hear or see him yet. I know my marriage can be saved and God will save it. I pray for any marriages going through hard times nothing is impossible with God, he can an will restore marriages, keep the faith.
Please pray for my wife Jessica gonzales. So that we may restore our marriage. Thank you
Please pray for restoration. Binding up depression, rejection and low self-esteem. For Levi and Shardae Taylor and Alexia. Give my husband a heart of flesh.
I would like prayer for my wife as we are separated and she has been with someone else. Pray that he will be removed from her life and she will have me come back home. pray that she will forgive me for my part in our separation.
Please pray for my husband Robert. He has abandoned our marriage. I just found out he has been having an affair off and on with another woman We have been a married for 11 years. I believe in God and the power of prayer. I pray that God put a hedge of thorns around us so we will not have any desires to sin. I pray Robert will not harden his heart. I pray Robert will answer Gods calling on his life and return to our covenant. In Jesus name, Amen
Please pray for my husband Bud to see the right way is with his wife and not the woman who verbally abuses, manipulates and lies to get her way. Please put obstacles in his way to cause him to not want to sin in adultery. Please pray I am able to continue growing and making myself a better person. Please pray that my husband will see these changes in myself and will want to make the effort to make the right changes for himself also. I’m praying for everyone in similar situations as mine.
Please pray for my wife Nikki that she would open heart to God, turn away from unfaithfulness, and the snare of Satan, and allow Christ to heal and restore our marriage.. God bless you all.
Pray for Richard for his family
I pray a hedge of thorns around my husband that he cannot continue down this path that is not righteous. Sever him from any unholy bonds completely. Let him have no comfort or peace in this path. But instead, teach him what true love really is. Bring him to a spot where he is able to be so completely loved by God that Jesus can finally begin to restore him. Restore what is broken. Reveal to him the glorious path God has in store for him with me, his gift from God. Help me to continue to let go to you Lord and trust you are working. And I still lay claim and thank you for the gift you garage me. Help me to be the wife and woman of God I am meant to be. Help me to remain focused on you Lord. May all the glory go to you Lord.
Hello. My name is Noma and my husband is Tendai. He left two years ago to be with the other woman . Please pray for the restoration of our family and our marriage in,Jesus name . Amen,
Please pray for my husband Jerome to return to God and return home to me and our children. We have been married for 5 years and together for 6. He has lost his way, please pray for him and the restoration of our family and our covenant marriage. Thank you and God Bless
Please pray for the return of Itani Tanase to me and to God. To seek to serve Jesus with all His heart. That the relationship he is pursuing with the other woman ends. Let them be removed from each other from as far as the east to the west.