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 God to change my husband’s hardened heart to a heart of flesh and to repent asking for forgiveness for his sins. Pray for this marriage to be healed and restored before divorce happens.
please pray for me my husband is cheating, I don’t want to give up on my marriage please help.
Please pray for my husband and I! I have confessed to being a terribly contentious wife over many years, our entire marriage. I’ve asked God for forgiveness and for my husband’s forgiveness. I’ve also asked for restoration and reconciliation to both God first and my marriage second. I ask that you’ll pray the “hedge of thorns prayer over my husband, Chris, and myself, Angelic” as my husband is being lured away by a woman who is also married. I ask if you’ll please pray for God to soften my husband’s heart and for God to save Chris from being His lost sheep, that God would rescue and restore Him to Himself first and our marriage second. I thank and praise God for any saint who will lift us up in this prayer!
Thank you for sharing this Thorn Prayer. I was searching on ways to improve my praying for a cheating spouse. My husband has left my children and I and is living with another woman whom he had an affair with. Please pray for him to allow us to live in our home and for him to repent. I want to return only if he has repented and of genuine sorrow. To return like the prodigal son.
Please pray for hedge of thorns around my cheating wife Crystal i give myself to God and wait for his work to be completed. 11 years of marriage and 4 kids and i forgive her now in my heart and know my part in this so i thank God in Jesus name amen
please pray for my husband james Edwards Henry jr aka eric
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Request a prayer for my husband to return home. He’s been away for 4 months now, living with another woman. He sees us everyday and is there for us. He tells us everyday he still loves and cares for us but is not ready to come home. I want my marriage and family restored. Thank you for the prayers.
Please pray for my husband, pray for a hedge of thorns to block any non covenant relationship he has and place conviction on his heart to bring him back to God.
Please pray for my wife of 24 years to return to God and to her family. I believe she turned her back on God because of her long awaited unanswered prayers about me getting right with God. Then she left me about 1 year ago with our 5 children. The past year I have spent getting my life back in order with God and as a result my 3 older children have returned full time. The younger ones half the time. My wife filed for divorse but I believe that God will reach her hardened heart before then. Her leaving saved me, now its my prayers and faith that are trying to save her and ultimately our marriage.
Pray for my husband that left 3 months ago…at this point I’m not sure if it’s another woman or just relationship issues…which can be repaired. I was blindsided and love him very much and have claimed his return in Jesus name…please help me pray for our marriage to be restored. And if there is another woman pray that the desire will be lost by both and my husband will realize I am his one Truelove and come back to our family. Also, for me to have a peace of mind through the process.
Please pray for my unfaithful husband to be set free of his current affair and all soul ties and for our marriage to be restored. Also, for me to have a peace of mind through the process.
My wife met a man online another country. A third world country where he is dirt poor and was scamming her. Well rebuking him for the scam she fell in love with him. She is 57 years old professional psychiatric nurse and he’s a twenty-three-year-old Nigerian. She has fallen madly in love with him I can only pretend to understand this relationship. Even though she’s never met him she separated herself for me and moved out of the home and is saving herself for him. She had a major mental meltdown that I believe led to this. I watched her as she lost control of herself as though she were being interred by demons. She is now day and night all hours on the phone with him video chatting s****** and masturbating to each other. Pray for my wife pray for her soul that she be delivered in the name of Jesus.
RH please pray for my youngest daughter who is in a relationship with a young man who is controlling and manipulative. I pray for God’s will for this and her life.
Pray for my husband to break an emotional affair with a coworker.