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 who is unfaithful. Pray for restoration of our marriage and healing to our family.
Please pray for my husband Gerald. He is having an affair and is addicted to pornography.
I love him and praying for him but would love to have someone pray in agreement with me. And also for the hedge of thorns. That he will return to me and the Lord. Thank you.
Please pray a hedge of thorn prayer for my husband Denny of 37 years. he has lost his way and having an affair for the past 6 months. My children and I are devastated.
Please pray for R, that he turns his face towards God and no one else. Release the anger from his heart and help him to love his family once again. Bring him home and back to his covenant marriage.
Please pray for the salvation of my husband Matt. Because of his hardened heart we have been separated for 9 months now and we have two boys under 3 years old. I desire to have our marriage restored, please pray in agreement with me.
Please pray for my covenant husband Manny. He divorced me 10 years ago and married his mistress. He cheated throughout our marriage and is struggling with sexual addiction. The Lord has confirmed time and time again that he is my covenant husband. We have 2 beautiful children and need and miss him. He has a calling on his life for ministry but the enemy has traooed him into lies and adultery for 20 years. Please pray the hedge of thorns over him that he may fully reconcile with the Lord, break all soul ties and come home to his covenant family.
Please pray for my son Dimitri. He’s in a toxic relationship with a woman that doesn’t know the Lord. I pray for ungodly soul ties to be broken; for all forgiveness, bitterness,anger and addictions to be removed and to fill Dimitri with the Holy Spirit. I pray for Dimitri’s protection against all evil, physical and spiritual.
Please pray for my prodigal husband Berend; he left me and the kids four months ago. He doesn’t call or let alone sends any messages. I quite concerned about his whereabouts. May God touch him to make contact with me and lead him back home. I believe that nothing is impossible with God. Thanks
Please pray for my husband Dwight. He is having an affair and is addicted to pornography.
I love him and praying for him but would love to have someone pray in agreement with me. And also for the hedge of thorns. That he will return to me and the Lord. Thank you.
Please pray for my husband iof 14 years thst God will build a hedge of throns arounf him. He has been unfaithful throughout our marriage with multiple women in the USA and abroad. He has turned back on me, he places his and other people interest before me, IHe brings women into our home in the other country because he is retired but I still work in the USA and he travels to and from the other country often. I found out his mistress has a key to our home in the other country because I don’t get to travel there often. Please pray that God will destroy those adulterous relationships, break all soul ties with all those women he had ungodly relations with and that the conviction of the holy spirit will come on him and he will repent and confess and turned from this ungodly loving. Also pray for his salvation. Amen
Please pray for hedge of thorns for my husband. Please pray he will notice other women in a healthy way, not the destructive way he does. Pray he realizes how his behavior sabotages or relationship. He and his brothers were severely beaten by their father. I have read this can cause a person to be unable to truly connect with his partner; and sabotage relationships which he has done in the past. Please pray for complete healing for both my husband and I.
Please pray for my husband Nathan, our marriage, and children. He experienced initial healing and experienced surrendering vulnerability as well as true intimacy. The enemy came quick to steal and he struggles with sexual sin and lies of the enemy. God erected a hedge of protection and I am in the shadow of His wing and secret place. I need to know when and how to move and not get in the way of God, operating in His wisdom. I have promises, beautiful ones and we both have tasted what the Lord has done. I pray the hedge of thorns erected by God protects our love as God draws my husband nearer to Him
May God prepare our hearts to receive and continually abide in His love together. Please agree in prayer. In Jesus Name!
Pray for Juan Vega, God encounter him. Build a hedge of thorns around him. May he see you, hear you, call out to you. God restore our marriage only you can save us. Teach us how to love each other again. Show Juan that the pastures are not greener on the other side, reveal it to him clear as day. God water the seed deep inside of him that is love for us may it grow in abundance. God I need a miracle for marriage restoration. amen
Please pray for myself and my wife Quinette, we are married 20 years, four years ago I almost lost her to another man and these prayers saved our marriage now it’s backed and I may have allowed it. Please pray for the restoration of my marriage
Pls pray for my husband a hedge thorn prayer .He keep on cheating to me.He dont respect me, very emotional abusive,lost respect he just do whatever he want .He is the child of God but sometimes he drink alcohol.We have been married for 23yrs now with 3 kids.