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
I pray God provide a hedge of thorns around Clint. Please God, stop my husband,Clint, regarding his actions with Alyssa. Please stand in their way, prevent her advances toward him in every way and prevent him from his mind, body, soul, spirit from having any thought of her whatsoever. It’s gone far enough, Dear Lord, please save my husband from further destroying our peace and joy as a couple, family and home. Take over, Lord, hear my prayers and release this devil’s hold on from my husband. I pray you give my husband strength to be the man I know he can be. I surrender to you, Lord, I know you can move mountains and I’m begging you remove Alyssa from our lives completely. Show her deception in the light of day, as she is deceiving her family as well. I rebuke Alyssa and all the evil she’s brought upon my husband and my home. I ask your mercy, Lord, for my peace of mind, to settle my spirit and to sooth my soul. Protect ud, let nothing seperate what you hold sacred.
Please pray for my husband, Achilles, who left me, his wife And partner for 17 years, and his 3 kids for the other woman, Kristina. May God place a hedge of thorns around him. I pray that God will always the burden of their sins in their hearts most specially when they are together so that they will understand that they are doing is very wrong. I also pray that other people they have deceived, who accepted their relationship as “Heaven-sent” would learn of their lies, that they may feel the burden more. All I pray in Jesus name. Amen.
Please pray for my husband Jason and his return to the Lord first and our Family second.
Please pray for my daughter Emily as she struggles with anxiety and fear. She is living with her boyfriend, and I’m praying for God to speak his truth to her heart about this relationship and bring her back to himself. I am praying that He would help her to trust Him with her heart and her future.
Hi my name is just wondering if yous can pray for my husband and I please. My husband just walked out of our marriage, it’s been a year now that we have been separated. He doesn’t answer my ph calls, email or txs message. I discovered he is living with another women. Please keep us in prayers please.
Thank you so much, much love to all and peace.
Please pray for my adulterer husband David
please pray for my husband caswell that God will put a hedge of thorn around him and keep him away from having an affair with a woman at his work place. We have been married for 31 years and he told me will be filing for a divorce and i am so heartbroken, going thru a lot of emotional pain and distress. Thank you for praying for me during this difficult time of my life.
Please pray for my marriage. My husband is selfish and constantly leaves me and the children alone. He is being unfaithful. Please pray for my family.
Please pray for my brother, he is having an affair and wants to leave his wife of over 30 years.
Please pray for my husband Tony, we have been married just a few months and he committed adultery while under the influence.
I need prayers that my husband makes the choice to stay with me and our kids . I pray for a hedge of protection to be put around him . Trey and I have been married for 21 years .
Please keep my husband Travis in prayer. He has been unfaithful to me in our 3 years of marriage. I love him and want to stay in this marriage. He has been unfaithful with the women for 3 months. Since finding out a month and half, he is still seeing her while trying to work out the marriage. Please pray for healing and the restoration of our marriage. Thank you!
Please help me pray for my husband Victor, that God should be an end to the relationship between him and Blessing, that God should put powerful misunderstanding between that will lead to their breakup forever, help me pray that God should increase my love in my husband’s heart that he will love me more than anyone in the world, that God should build a hedge of thorn around him that no other will have a chance to him except me his wife, help me pray that my husband Victor and Blessing they should begin to hate themselves as from now.
Please pray for my husband, Tim. That God will place a hedge of thorns around him and keep him from pursuing Diane or any woman other than me. Pray that he will come to realize that this realationship is wrong and that he will ask God for the strength to turn away from it.
Please pray for my relationship with Angel. He is having an affair with this woman from work and my relationship and family is falling apart. Please pray for us.