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 the hedge of thorns for my husband Eddie. A woman who practices black magic is controlling him and pushing him to divorce me and marry her while I’m fighting cancer. I continue praying to God and I keep positive thoughts that my husband will return. We’ve been married for 30 years and have 3 daughters.
Please pray for my marriage my husband left a year ago we have a small baby. He doesn’t visit or call please pray for him hes name is Faiek. Thank you God bless
Please pray for the,restoration of of my marriage to jeff. Its been 7 years, and, I sometimes just want to give up. He keeps making promises to come home but ends up walking away and ignoring me over and over for years now. Please pray against any forces that continue to keep jeff from returning to Father and home to me. Help me with my own faith and strengthen me knowing in all of His promises is yes and Amen
Hedge of thorn prayer for my husband Isikeli
My husband is being lead into the temptation of another woman. Please pray for him to have the strength to resist. Place a hedge of thorns around him as he sees this person almost daily. I pray he sees she is a harlot and only tempting him into sin.
Amen
Please pray 4 my husband who is angry and deals with immaturity and no accountability. He been cheating during our whole 16 yr relationship we have 5 kids I just had a 6 month old married 4 7yrs. We still live together he tells me hes in love with the other women but will always love me he still tries 2 sleep with me and I believe theres other women. I trust the Lord and know that God has me and my children protected and covered. I pray that he will get saved and put God first so he can teach him how 2 be a husband and a better father 2 his children that are watching us. I pray that God would get the glory out of this and that my latter will be greater than once was. I pray 4 patience in waiting on the Lord to complete his work in me and start his work on him this 2 shall pass. I pray that God will redeem the time that has been taken away from his wife and children in Jesus name that will of the Lord be done completely 4 me and my family.
Please pray for my marriage that we can reconcile. My husband is cheating and has file for a divorce. I know that God is a miracle worker. He can do the impossible. I believing and trusting God.
Please pray for my husband Dustin. He has left the home and left our 20 year marriage and our 4 children. He is full of anger and evil. He is having an affair with a woman who manipulates him. Everyone is hurting. Please pray for marriage restoration and a hedge of thorns and first for Dustin to turn back to God and the path back to good and righteous be a glowing welcoming path.
Please pray for my wife, Nicole. She recently confessed to me that she has been having affairs with women over the past 20 years of our marriage. She used to go to church with me and was a strong Christian woman, but in the last five years she has been going on mini vacations with her friends where these affairs have occured. I love her and have been praying for her to stop cheating on me. Please pray for us
I DECLARE THAT MY HUSBAND NOSA WILL RETURN TO HIS COVENANT RELATIONSHIP FIRST AND FOREMOST WITH GOD ALMIGHTY. I PRAY THAT HE WOULD REPENT OF HIS ADULTEROUS AFFAIR WITH CECILIA AND ANY OTHER STRANGE WOMAN IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. I DECLARE TOTAL RESTORATION AND RECONCILATION IN OUR MARRIAGE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AMEN!!!!!!!!
Please pray that Bill would come to his senses after over a year now a separation and telling me five years ago if you would’ve done things differently I would honor our covenant marriage of 36+ years I am praying this prayer that you have here in the restoration of my marriage thank you so much
PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD SAVES MY HUSBAND LEEVONSON AND BRINGS HIM HOME IMMEDIATELY FROM THIS STRANGE WOMAN’S HOME. PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD WOULD SOFTEN HIS HEART AND LEAD HIM AWAY FROM DESTRUCTION AND BACK TO HIS MATRIMONIAL HOME AND HIS COVENANT WIFE SUDDENLY IMMEDIATELY AND FORGIVENLY IN JESUS NAME AMEN
I ask that you pray for my husband to be saved and to have a relationship with God and accept Jesus in his heart. My husband and I have been separated for 8 years, we have a son together, he was in the Army. He has other kids, while we are still married and he is living with another woman now. Pray that he returns home to me, his wife and family., And be the husband and father God called him to be. Thank you for your prayers
Please pray for my husband MSA, so he could see the true light n return faithful, loving, etc., to our marriage of 20 years. Am a stander for 3 yrs now. He comes n go goes.
Please pray for my wife she has made a friend with a guy outside of our marriage she has stated on countless occasions that he is just a friend but the friendship has never sat well with me and her words and actions has led me to feeling this way. I’m a Christian and I believe that God can do amazing things, my wife is however not saved and we are very much unequally eoked. Please pray for Kerry’s salvation and a heart of purity that the truth will be reaveled for true restoration to take place. So that we can once again pursue a wholesome marriage. This state of confusion and uncertainty I’ve been living with for approximately 9months now and I really need God’s grace and love to endure this time.. I love my wife dearly and I pray God reveals to her in which ever way he chooses that being solely devoted to me is more important than having a friendship that seeks to ruin us.. Please pray with me in my pursuit for a happy loving marriage.
Amen