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 my covenant marriage to be restored in Jesus name! Praying for the return of all prodigals. He is mighty to save! Rebuke the enemy and the lies of the enemy from my husband. Pray for his salvation. Pray he is the father and husband God has called him to be and that he will turn from perversion, lies and adultery.
Please pray for my husband Steven to return back home he left me stop paying the bills cheated again after an affair he had a couple years ago I found out he was cheated he has been gone for couple of months saying he wants divorce please pray I still love my husband we beenarried for along time.
Please pray for my husband Darrell. That he will not be tempted by the other woman.
Please pray for for unfaithful husband. Merle Bates. He has moved in with a woman…he tells me he loves me and is trying to get back to gather. I honor my vows and want to restore my marriage. I don’t know how to pray . please help me
Can we pray this over straying family members like our mothers and fathers?
Absolutely! As long as this is prayed over a husband and wife relationship and they are still married, even if they are separated and living apart. God will honor his word.
Pray for my husband who has an addiction to drugs. In addition he has been having an affair with a woman who he can’t break away from..I saw his text messages telling her that he lives her. She knows he is married because she called me and we had a confrontation withe my husband..he told her I am his wife and that he didn’t know her. After all that they continue to see each other. He comes home every night around 5 in the morning saying he has been working..when I call him he never answers his phone.. I keep praying for him to leave her and come back.. I asked the Lord to break the Devils plans for him. I asked the Lord to restlre…renew our marriage… the lonely nights I endure are cout led with tears and pain..my only comfort is God’s word and his promises.
Please pray for me…that is be the woman that God wants me to be.. please pray for my husband and our family.
Thank you and God Bless!
I wrote a couple days ago. i just found out my husband got his lover pregnant. him n i have 3 kids together i love him so much and i decided to stay. It takes a lot for me to stay and try to understand that by me staying i will have to support him on baby visitations and well her too. i ask to put a hedge of thorns on my husband so when he sees her he wont feel the need to be with her. i want my family together. please pray for my kids and him and i to stay sgronger and for our relationship to become strong.
thank you
Please pray for my husband to return first to Christ and then to our marriage. Please also pray that God will remove the strange woman from the heart and desire of my husband. I pray that the strange woman will come to know Christ and God will bless her with a husband that is not my husband. Please pray that my husband will have courage to come home, I know he wants to in his heart as he is starting to make steps home. I pray that I will have the patience to stand and preserve through this storm.
In Jesus Name!
Please pray for my partner MP who has lost his way, lies and cheats as though it is normal behaviour. He has no vision for us and does not see the point of being together. I have been faithful to him and still deeply in love with him. He has become a selfish person, deliberately lies, ignores me and is indifferent and it hurts me so much. He is loving and kind only when it suits him. He makes time for multiple women at the same time, wining and dining them. Please pray for the hedge of thorns to be placed around him, to keep them from falling into sin and being unfaithful and lying. Cause these ungodly desires to not be fulfilled with any other person. Please forgive him and help him to forgive himself. Please fill him with love and peace and restore our relationship as it was in the beginning. Thank you for praying with me.
Hello, please pray for my marriage, we have been together for more than 35 years and haven’t been good, I think is because I got pregnant when we were boyfriend and girlfriend and he blamed me for that plus 5here is this ex-girlfriend that he keeps calling and looking for her and says is just a friend ….2 years ago I was going to leave him I had enough, but he talked to a pastor and long story short we are together again but I don’t feel him with me is like he did me a favor staying with me and that’s it everything else is on my hands….. I don’t know what to do anymore
please pray for my husband. last year i found out je was cheating and up intil now its been hard to come to a full stable relationship with him. even tho i stayed living with him we were not together for 10 months. were trying one last time i want ny family together and i believe with prayer and my faith in god my family will be together again with love and no more lies
Please pray for me and my husband who are separated. My husband is having an affair with OW. I pray that he turns to God to repent his sin so that God can deliver my husband back to me and my children.
Dear Lord Jesus I agree with these dear hurting souls. You said where two or more are gathered in your name that they are you Shelby in their mitts and whatsoever they shall I shall be granted to them in your name so right command it be done in the mighty and Powerful name of Jesus that this marriage has her restored that the Satan loses his foothold and hasn’t no cannot find his way in these relationships that Jesus has one I declare the blood of Jesus over my husband over my marriage over my children and over all of these families that are hurting take away all the Brokenness and give them love and joy your will be done email that you hate divorce it’s in your word so Lord Jesus I claim these marriages restored in the mighty name of Jesus by the mighty blood of Jesus you’re an awesome God and you said that you want to give us everything good and that you want to bless us so that we have a life it’s overflowing with every good thing I stand on forward and claim the restoration of these marriages but even more so that restoration because mine wasn’t ever really good with sneaking behind my back so it’s going to be better than ever whole and perfect and faithful full of love and joy in Jesus holy name I claim it!
C
Please pray for my husband Darrell. He is being tempted by OW and needs help.
Please pray for my husband Cesar who has abandoned me and our two children. He wants nothing to do with God and is living with OW. He is nothing like the man I married 16 years ago. My heart aches for our family.