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
Pray for my cheating husband who is cheating on me I am 9 months pregnant with our 2nd child and he has decided to leave me and his children for another woman.
Please pray that ABBA FATHER would open my husband’s Leevonson McKnight eyes and soften his heart to end UNGODLY relationship with strange woman Jennifer Sweeney and return to home to his covenant MARRIAGE and his real wife! In Jesus Name AMEN
Please pray for my husband Arland’ s salvation and restoration as God’s son. Pray for our marriage to be resurrected and restored.
Lord please give me wisdom and strength as my husband has lost his way to another woman. Lord may he face the hedge of thorns and return to his covenant relationship. I pray that he returns to his family and to set the example to our 13 yr old daughter of turning to the Lord when fallen to sin. Lord we pray and believe you will guide through this trying time. May you help the other woman who needs your guidance Lord from her wicked ways.
Please pray for my husband zander. May he find the right way. May he find his home which is US, me and our children. He is having extra marital affairs (yes 2 women) and these affairs cause so much pain in our family.
Please pray that my husband leaves his mistress. Someone he met at work and someone who has put a spell on him. We have been together 20 years and he suddenly turned on us in anger and left. We have 3 children. Pray that a hedge of thorns is placed around him and she quickly loses interest in him and returns to her husband. Pray that he finds the strength to return to his family as the love we have for him is real.
My husband is currently living with and “engaged” to our son’s ex-girlfriend. We are legally separated but not divorced. it has been approximately a year-and-a-half and although he has not lived any more than 15 mi from us at any given time, I have not seen him. He avoids me and has just recently began seeing our seven year old son at school during lunch recess. Except for recently the visits have been very sporadic and irregular and he has gone as long as seven months without seeing our son who he was once very close to.. The Lord has protected my son from having to be exposed to this affair thus far but he is well aware of it and it is heartbreaking for him. a once Faith following husband who worked and supported his family is no longer. we do not receive any kind of child support from him as he has chosen to stay home and take care of his girlfriend’s child while she works in order to avoid child support. it’s been heartbreaking for us in every way imaginable and yet faith building in the ability to see the Lord move in ways I never could have imagined. our now soon-to-be 8 year old son, received the Lord as his savior a year ago and has now on his own, ask to be baptized. We have learn to cling to the Cross no matter the loss. Our son has learned to see our heavenly father as his Daddy but your ins for his Earthly Daddy to be reconciled to the Lord and to his family. Please pray with me for restoration, for our young son’s continue protection from his dad’s sin and for our adult children and grandchildren and their Brokenness Because of all of this. Please also pray for my foster children who I am now forced to proceed through the very long, slow process of adopting them, without him. Blessings and prayers to all.
My wife of 25 years has been in an affair for 2 years now with a man she was on a praise team with. Her time with him has increased lately sometimes being gone 6 hours. I found a letter she wrote saying it was a prophecy from god telling her that they would be together and he would bless their union. How can she believe God would endorse her adulterous affair. She is so blinded by him. She thinks he is the love of her life. He is also married. Yes I am partly to blame by having a controlling nature. I was jealous and insecure for 25 years and have been seeking God for my healing.
Your situation is very similar to mine. I have also been married for 25 years and my husband is committing adultery with a woman who we met doing ministry together with. I will pray for you as I pray for us. God bless you. ✝️💕
lord touch the heart of my husband to come back home. pray for me my husband to reconcile… pray for boldness and wisdom for my husband to come back home .for him to leave the strange woman. God ….break the spell that that woman has casted on him…open his eyes and mind…pray for him to fix our marriage and restoration to manifest in Jesus name .amen
Heavenly Father, I join these women in their fight to save their marriages and their families. I too am praying for the hedge of thorns to be round and about my husbands heart. That he remember the covenant that he made with you, so that he will honor the one he made with me. I pray that his children suffer not longer and that the error of his ways be revealed and he seek forgiveness. I pray that his mistress realizes that she is acting against you and leave him alone, grow disgusted with him and her actions. I humbly ask that you move swiftly and bind the enemy right now as I pray, as we pray. In your son’s precious name, Amen
Please pray for husband to stop cheating and being unfaithfully and come
Back to me his wife and family. Pray for the other woman to leave him alone in jesus name.
Please pray for my husband of 18 yrs whom i have come to learn that he is married and they have children
Please pray for my sister Dianne she has been married for 11years to her husband and has 3 young children, she has entered into an adulterous relationship a man named Brandon recently, thank you
I rhaeanna, declare that my husband Michael will remember his love and devotion to our almighty God and savior. That he will remember his vows we made in front of him. The covenant God made when he joined us into one flesh. I declare that the hedge of thorns take hold around his heart. Let it cause a maze and confuse him and the harlot nikki. Thus not allowing them to continue sinning and keeping him away from his children and his God given spouse, me. I pray the blood of Jesus Christ rinse both of us. Causing us to forgive each other, which will allow for the restoration of our marriage. Allow us to speak without anger or bitterness. Allow our words to be spoken with grace and love. Let Michael know that he is missed and loved so very much as the head of our household, and we are lost without him. I ask this of you in the name of the father, son and Holy Ghost.
Amen
please, please, PLEASE… I am needing all you prayer worriors to say a prayer to restore my marriage. I’m in the final home stretch. I am so close to having my husband home. I can feel it. After over two years, I just want him back. God be with us all.
Amen
Please pray for my Husband Daniel that has committed adultery before and once again he is commiting adultery.