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 husband of 20 years. He has gotten the OW pregnant after leaving me 2 months ago and now feels obligated to her even though he regrets leaving and getting involved with her. He admits the feelings be thought he had for her are false but because of the circumstances he believes everything happens for a reason and that he must now stay in his current circumstance. Only God can help my marriage so I’m asking for all prayer warriors to pray for us and ask God to give my spouse a Damascus experience so that he will see his duty is to his wife and come home. Not the OW.
Please pray for my husband Mark that he stop the affair he’s been having and that our marriage be restored. I told him we could move past it and move on, but he is lost. He keeps telling me he is done with her, but then goes right back. We have been married 12 years and have a beautiful daughter. Please please please pray that our marriage be restored and that he gives up his affair.
Could you please pray for me and my wife Veronica. We are currently separated I haven’t been served divorce papers and I pray that they never come. I pray that God will soften her heart towards the idea of working things out. I don’t believe there’s been infidelity but I’m not going to say it hasn’t happened. She’s a nurse on a helicopter in the yard and goes to school full-time in the whole time we’ve been married we’ve had one of her brothers and sisters living with us. There is never just been me and her since we’ve been mean I just think life got in between us so please pray for us
Please pray for my wife rosemary. She lost her mother almost two years ago and suffered catastophic grief until now.
Just over a year ago she took a new job and quickly got involved in going out with other staff ..not coming home until early hours …drinking …dressing very provocatively …flirting with men …. early hours video calls with strange men from abroad …met on facebook etc… even when confronted starts shouting …denying or justifying …blaming others …. habitual lying about where she is …..even to our son ….who is 15 and confused about all this..we go to church she reluctantly comes sometimes but doesnt get involved .pastor gave us a book each to try mend our marriage but the behaviour has persisted after new year she left me and our son no explanation for 5 nights claiming to visit daughter .just now today hasnt returned from work and lied to my son on the phone …refusing to answer our calls…feel at point of desparation with this now need a miracle from God to repair this damage …please pray
Please Holy Trinity and St.Jospeh stop the divorce that is in progress
and put a hedge of thorns around Bob that he does not get involved
with other women. Please hear my plea.
JA
Please pray for ny husband,Jeff,to return home to me, his,wife. I pray that there be no more delay in him coming home-that our marriage be completely restored. Please pray that the love he had for me be returned into his heart, that he be given a new heart of flesh according to Ezekiel, and that he be healed and delivered from all unrighteousness and walk in foregiveness,love, and compassion.
I pray for wisdom for me to know what to do in this situation, God’s perfect will be done.
In JesusName I pray, Amen
I kindly ask for a prayer request for my Husband Louie who has separated from me a month ago to be with his ex-wife. Please pray for his soul and restoration of our marriage. I greatly appreciate it and believe that prayers are best when in union. Again I thank you with all my heart.
Lord Im praying you will put hedge of thorns around my husband Steve of 10 year’s . We are currently separated and he moved..Im praying God restores my marriage and bring my husband home to me and our grandchildren..
Please put a hedge of thorns to keep away the girls he has had affairs with. Please pray that he realizes his wrong doing and comes home to me..I am broken and depressed, but pray for him to change his ways and come back to the covenant of marriage that we have under go..
God you are a healer and a restorer. You love to breath your breath of life on the dead, so God I’m asking you to. Breath life back into my marriage, and my husband’s dry bones. God please remove his heart of stone and give him a new heart of flesh and write your love upon the new heart you have given us. God as you know the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. But you Father have come to give life abundantly. Pour your abundance on my marriage right now Father and on all the other broken marriages out there. In the name of Jesus amen
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever Amen. Lord, cultivate in my husband Robie a drive and desire to serve You more than any other person or thing. Close his ears to how the world around him defines success and whisper to Him how You define it Lord – to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with You God (Micah 6:8).
The scripture says “But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world” (1 Timothy 6:6-7). Lord, help my husband to be content with all You have given him, and to ignore Satan’s – and the world’s – lure that he must have more. Help him to be eternally minded, not wanting to store up treasures on earth or for himself, but desiring treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal (Matthew 6:19-20).
Lord, surround my husband Robie with men of God who will care deeply about him, reach out to him, and remind him he is not alone. Lord, guard my husband’s Robie eyes, filter his thoughts, and convict his heart so that he immediately surrenders to You whatever causes him to begin to lust. Keep his mind pure and don’t let images stay in his mind and begin to lure his heart away Lord, may my husband Robie find his sense of worth not in what he does (or in what he succeeds at), but in You Jesus. Remind him that as he brings his heart before You, You are pleased, regardless of how he performs. And help him to remember that He is “fearfully and wonderfully” made (Psalm 139:14), and whatever he fails at is part of Your overall design to shape his character and teach him to lean on You for his strength.
Lord, Your Word says “Perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). Help my husband Robie to love You perfectly and therefore, to trust You immensely so that there is no room for fear. Make him a man of courage because he trusts in You. Lord, don’t let my husband Robie be content with status quo. Help him to give to You the lure to be lazy, the feeling that he’s tired of trying, and the sense of defeat that leads to complacency. Lord, don’t let Satan tempt my man to resign into passivity and not take a stand. Give give my man Robie Weylan Hampton a zealousness for the truth and to be active, involved, and present in the affairs of our marriage, our family, workplace, and church
Lord, keep my husband’s Robie heart close to you. Don’t let him entertain anything that will divide his heart and cause him to compromise his faith, his marriage to me Father God, his parenting to our children and grand children, his work with his hands, or his health. Convince him that his greatest “high” and his deepest sense of fulfillment will only be found in You Father God. Be his joy, his Rock, his Loving Father, his Warrior King and his heart’s delight
In Jesus Name Amen
Lord I pray for my husband to turn from his affairs and return to you Father God and then return to our marriage and family. God you are a healer and a restorer. You love to breath your breath of life on the dead, so God I’m asking you to. Breath life back into my marriage, and my husband’s dry bones. God please remove his heart of stone and give him a new heart of flesh and write your love upon the new heart you have given us. God as you know the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. But you Father have come to give life abundantly. Pour your abundance on my marriage right now Father and on all the other broken marriages out there. In the name of Jesus amen
Please pray for my husband Roger, he has fallen into an affair with a family member of mine and has left our marital home and me and his children for her. I pray for him to return first to the Lord and second to our marriage.
Lord Im praying you will put hedge of thorns around my husband Quenton. We are currently separated and he moved in with another woman in a different city. Im praying God restores my marriage and bring my husband home to his family.
Please pray for my wife of 10 years. She fell into an affair 5 months ago with her boss after he continually used his position to get her alone whether marketing in his car or at lunch or at the office. She now believes that these illegitimate feelings that are new are love when they are actually merely infatuation and lust on her bosses part. She just moved into an apartment and so did her (also married) boss right near each other. Pray that God puts a hedge of thorns around her and drives a wedge between them. Pray that she returns to her first love in Jesus and to her husband who loves her unconditionally. Thank you.
Father, I ask in agreement with other standers waiting on their spouses to come home, that my prodigal husband return to God our savior and comes home to me and our daughter. God you are a healer and a restorer. You love to breath your breath of life on dead things. Breath life back into my marriage, and my husband’s dry bones. Show the nation’s what you can Do! Thank you father for healing my marriage and all the others out there. The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. You Father have come to give life abundantly. Pour your abundance on my marriage right now Father and on all the other broken marriages out there. In the name of Jesus amen
Father, I ask in agreement with others waiting on their spouses to come home, that my prodigal husband return to God our savior and comes home to me and our daughter. God you are a healer and a restorer. You love to breath your breath of life on dead things. Breath life back into my marriage, and my husband’s dry bones. Show the nation’s what you can Do! Thank you father for healing my marriage and all the others out there. The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. You Father have come to give life abundantly. Pour your abundance on my marriage right now Father and on all the other broken marriages out there. In the name of Jesus amen