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 that the man living with my wife would be exposed for what he really is and that he would leave her and our marriage would be restored. Thank you.
Prayer for unfaithful spouse
Dear MOP,
I read about your mission and am blessed with your purpose to intercede and pray for others. I would love to pray with you. Do u have regular meeting?
Meanwhile, please pray for my husband Richard Haynes. His emotional and sexual soul ties with another woman be broken, scattered and be in full stop. He wants to divorce me to get her, so the hedge of thorns is a powerful prayer asking God protect, defend my marriage and save my husband. Im praying for Gods grace, patience and peace to guard my heart and soul, to always be a good good wife to my husband.
Thank you MOP.
God bless you all.
Please pray for my marriage to be restored and that husband returns home and that we reconcile to live in the unity and peace of Jesus Christ and the sacred convent of holy matrimony. In Jesus name I ask for your prayers Amen
Thank you for the powerful prayer. My husband Mike is a serial flirter ..Moves from one girl to another and to some he proposes sex..We have been married for 3 years now.Im a christian girl who honors marriage but i feel like i made a mistake getting married to my husband…Ive confronted him a number of times about his behaviour ,but he’s quiet about it..Even when i send him text messages with evidence,he wont hold any discussion with me..I feel like the marriage was never meant to be and feel like a divorce..may God give me grace while i pray the hedge of thorns prayer.
Majorine
Join me in faith, as I call forth my husband to come back to his wife of his youth. Just as the prodigal son retraced his steps, So shall my husband. IN Jesus Name
Please join me in praying a hedge of thorns around my husband who has sought out comfort with other women. He has been out of our home since July and I’m believing in God to remove the sinful desires of lustfulness and his sex drive from my husband and to restore his desire and love for me as his wife and to reconcile our marriage stronger than it has ever been before. Thank you
So shall it be. Amen
I would like to ask that your team join me in praying this prayer over my husband, Michael who is chasing after Elisa. She is married too. I do not know her husband’s faith association. She appears to follow Wicca, my husband used to claim Christianity and then claimed to be a Satanist and now says he doesn’t believe in anything. However, I know that when 2 or 3 of us gather and pray, our prayers are answered. My prayer would also ask that God soften Elisa’s heart toward her own husband, Jason. That Jason would be led to love Elisa well and in such a way that she is inspired to rekindle her love with her husband and becomes disinterested in mine. In her pain and discontentment, she is entertaining the idea that she would be happy with Michael. So I ask God to remove the resentment, impatience and sadness that Elisa might hold in her heart toward Jason so that when he tries to love her well; she isn’t blinded by negativity, but can recognize his effort and find relief for herself in her husband’s attention.
Tiffany,
I stand in agreement with you. I pray that God restores your marriage and that Michael finds his way back to Christ.
I like this prayer and appreciate all of the information you present on this site. A year ago my husband found a new group of friends who clearly either poisoned his thinking or finally reinforced his inclinings of deceit and leaving were ok – I can make some connections but only God knows for sure – he started dating, moved out, and filed for divorce (still not final). He is now in an adulterous relationship with a Christian woman and prior to this became friends with new folks that caused me to pause. Details are what they are. At what point am I crossing biblical lines praying for God to heal us? Definitely want to stay clear of witchcraft, etc.
I am asking for God to give my marriage to my husband Jerome a true chance. My husband has caused infidelity in our marriage. Which has caused our trust to lose it foundation. My husband has been in and out our home since September. November 8 he left with a friend and I haven’t seen him since November 13th and I haven’t heard from him since November 19th. I was told he was dating. I’m his wife not those other women. I’m praying for marriage restoration and for God to open up the lines of communication between us and he return home and comes to full repentance
Thank you for the opportunity to pray this prayer on your website. Please pray for my husband, as he has been hiding a secret affair that he does not think I know about. I found out about 6 months ago. If he even thinks that I believe he is having an affair, he lashes out at me, tells me I am crazy and that tries to manipulate and deceive me. I am a God fearing woman an want my marriage to glorify the Lord. He disrespects me constantly at home in regards to this other woman. He believes that that what he is doing is okay. He tries to act as if he is walking upright before the Lord, so I will not think otherwise. Please pray for the removal of this woman and that much husband will repent and be delivered from his selfish, ungodly, lustful and adulterous ways. Also, that he will delivered from the deception and lies of the enemy. Thank you so much for your prayers.
I would like for you all to pray a hedge of thorns around my husband he has been cheating and hanging out with his friends all of the year of 2020 I do not know what’s going on I am a good wife and have done nothing wrong to say this man he needs are blinded eyes to be open as well as everyone else around him please pray that God will make everyone around him Paris out of his life so that he can return home to his wife. I pray night and day
Good Day, I have a thorn in my side Mariska who is still married an now pregnant with another man’s child not divorced as yet I don’t want to hurt anyone but I want her to go an stay out of my relationship an for her an my fiancé to stop talking to each other I am fed-up an tired of being hurt an lied too – I have been praying an praying for this to stop – I don’t want them to communicate anymore please help me I am not being selfish I have been through enough in my life losing the person I love to another women – an I want to pray against any other women known to him to leave him to leave him alone an for him to feel guilty for talking to other women I am so so tired of feeling down an unworthy because of this everyday I am stressed out scared worried about this I love Hermanus with a honest pure heart with only good intentions an all I want is the same of this man – pse pse can someone talk to God an pray on my behalf cause my faith is so small I at times don’t want to pray anymore cause I have begged God cried yelled for help from God an nothing has changed thank you
Hi Marie, I’m sorry to hear about what you are going through but as the prayer says this is a prayer for unfaithful spouse. Someone you are married to. You have no claims over someone you are not married to and any prayer to bind that person to you would be witchcraft. Also, if you are having a sexual relationship with this person that would be a sin which you would need to repent from. Jesus is coming back for a pure and spotless bride. We have to keep ourselves from sinful thoughts, deeds and actions. Praying for your healing and restoration to Jesus Christ. Blessings
Please pray a hedge of thorns around my husband Brandon. We have been married for 14 years and he has been involved in an affair for the past year and seems to be coming to a crossroads. She has currently convinced him to quit his job and spend half the time with her in New Orleans and the other half of the time with me and my daughter in Houston. He has said that he is not in love with me and very much in love with this other woman. She is an atheist and has gotten my husband to begin drinking and living a very different lifestyle than the one he used to live.
Please pray a hedge of thorns around my husband he has been gone away from home almost 3 months me and our children miss him dearly I pray he returns soon and returns with a changed attitude he currently talks to me rude and cruel.
In Jesus name, I pray God puts a hedge of thorns around my son and that he will return home peacefully and obedient. I pray a hedge of thorns around my husband that his heart will be turned toward God, me his wife, and our children. That he would be faithful and not seek relationships with other women to cheat on me and neglect our family. In Jesus Name I pray thank you