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 marriage.. That my husband Gregory would end his affair and repent. I also pray that he would really give his heart to the Lord. I also need prayer to focus on the Love of my life Jesus.
Please pray that my husband returns to God, he had become an atheist and is making decisions that no longer represent the vow’s of our marriage. I’m asking for God’s guidance on how to respond to this situation.
Thank you
Please pray for my husband to totally avoid the other woman and to stop communicating with her anymore. Please pray to change my husband from being unfaithful to being faithful, to become a good husband and a good father. Make his faith to GOD to become more stronger and become a god fearing person. Please pray to other woman to stop texting and talking to my husband that she will repent to the Lord. Thank you for your prayers, In Jesus name. Amen.
Please pray for conviction and clarity on my husband. Please block all lying, deceiving and prideful spirits from influencing him. Open his heart to the lord and to our kids and marriage. Pray that he avoids temptation of dishonesty, other women and sinful places.
Please pray for my husband and I. He is an alcoholic. Because of his addiction he has talked to an ex and another woman, making lies that we were divorcing and I was no longer staying at our house, inviting them over. I still do not know the truth whether something occurred, but in my heart.. it has. I’m not sure if our marriage can be restored or if this is my wake up call to his cheating and if it’s better if we divorce.
Please pray that my husbands love for me returns as it once was, that the eyes of my husbands heart be opened and that he returns to me and his kids. Pray that this divorce is hindered and that he can’t stop thinking about me and the family he left behind.
Please pray this in unity with me for my husband Troy. I myself was unfaithful and at the brink of divorce. He wanted to reconcile a month ago but Satan fed him lies that are confusing his decisions. He is on dating websites seeking attention and affirmation of multiple women. Please pray for his desires to be removed and for him to humble himself before His Savior and return to seeking reconciliation. I will be praying this often in the meantime.
Please pray this prayer for my husband who can’t seem to stay off social media sites emotionally attaching himself to multiple women. I’m unsure if this has been going on the entire marriage, but I know it was done in his previous relationships. This is the first marriage for us both and I want ot to be our only one to each other til death do us part. I’ve done all the wrong things up to this point trying to fix it on my own, but I was wrong and now I need God’s word to become life to me and work this out. Thank you and I hope your team still reads these comments to pray for us in need.
Please pray for my husband Chad who is addicted to meth & cheats on me , that my father God restore my marriage, he came home about a month ago , he was living with another woman, since he came home he can’t seam to stay home , when he goes to work I have to pray that he will return that day , most of the time he does not and will be gone for days at a time & is not helping me finically
So please pray for me & my marriage I want my husband back !
In Jesus name I pray
Please pray for my husband. He is leaving me for a woman with whom he has been having an affair on and off for about 4 years. This is not his first affair, but this one he is in limerence with. He is addicted to her. He says he knows it’s wrong and God doesn’t want it, but he can’t lose her. We have 2 children, 8 & 9, and 1 in heaven. This started when this woman organized a benefit for us when we found out our daughter was terminally ill. When she died, she had a picture tapestry made in her memory. Please also pray for my SIL, who’s husband is a severe alcoholic, and cheats on her when he is drunk. God, please deliver us from this evil.
Pray for Barb who is away from her family and her marriage and away from her faith. Pray for my kids and I.
Please pray for my husband, Zachary who left me very suddenly for a younger woman. Please pray that above all he sees the sinfulness in his actions and ends the relationship and returns to God. Pray that he repairs his relationship with Our Lord and by doing so realizes his commitment to God and his wife. May he find love for me again so that we may reconcile our marriage for the Glory of God, that we may serve as examples of God’s forgiveness and forgiveness to each other.
Please pray for my husband Don and his unfaithful ways. Pray that these vowels are replayed in his head day after day night after night. Please be in agreement with me for our marriage restoration. Please pray that God will send both women they’re own spouse. Please pray for my broken heart to be healed and repaired. Thanks
Please pray for my unfaithful husband
Please pray that my husband falls back in love with me and returns his attention back to our home and away from his mistress. I pray she finds someone else. 🙏🏾