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 my marriage will be restored.
God Bless.
Please pray for my husband Skip. That he would not fall into sin. That he would forgive me and that our marriage is fully restored.
Prayers for my husband, my son and my middle daughter.
Please pray with me the hedge of thorns for my husband Harold. We were together for 3 years and in that time he was unfaithful. We have been married 2 months and now we are apart and he is living with an ex- girlfriend. Our convenant of marriage is important to me . I love him. I pray for forgiveness and understanding and that he also has the same. That this prayer will bring him back and our marriage can be re-united. I pray the other woman Beth be shown the wrong doing of being with my husband. He says I need to earn him back. I want my marriage and my husband so our covenant can be strong and fulfilled. Thank you.
Please pray hedge of thorns around my husband William. That he come back to his wife. Thanking the Lord for the restoration of this marriage that is manifesting!
Please pray my marriage is restored.
My name is Miranda, and my husband John has been in an off-and-on affair for 3 months. He says he wants a divorce. That too much damage has been done and reconciliation would be cancer. I have forgiven him, and I continue to forgive him. I wait under the wing of God for love to overflow between us. Please pray for our reconciliation. After 13 years I know the grass is not greener for him on the path he is taking. I love him as God loves us both.
Please pray my husband Anthony will leave Corrine And return home to me his wife. And for both of them to repent and give their lives to Christ. God the Glory in advance.
Pray for my son, Douglas. He is a Christian, but has become distant with me & his wife, Shelli. Thank you.
Please pray my marriage is restored. Thank you.
Please pray my husband Stevie that God will and shall build thorns of protection around him and bring him back home to his wife.
Hi i ask for the hedge of thorns to be prayed over my husband.. He’s gone alot and very distant from me. I want our marriage to workout. Hes been UNfaithful twice but said he’s never physically been with her. She’s was the one that help him wreck his first marriage.. I feel that he’s talking to her still but i don’t have proof or he’s talking to someone new.. His best friend Jose Santiago is a very bad influence as this man doesn’t respect marriage or a relationship.. He is bad around my husband.. My husband i know is into pornography, because he doesn’t feel attracted to me. He’s distant.. He always takes his anger out on me.. Even when its me he’s not angry with.. I just want peace with us and our marriage.. His family has caused a wedge also with us.. So I ask anyone if you can please pray this for us and keep us in your prayer..and pray for me that i have a bonding relationship with god ❤ Thank you and god bless 😇
I asking for you to help me pray a hedge of thorns around my husband Joaquin. He’s cheating on me again. I forgave him 4 years ago and I know God requires me to keep forgiving and I will continue to. I am praying gid reveals to him what he’s doing to me. He says he never meant to hurt me and he lives me, I believe him and I’m praying a hedge of thirns around him and asking God to take charge over his heart, to repent and reconcile our marriage better than ever.
please pray for me, my husband is cheating on me. he says he is not, i ask him where is he going from early in the morning to late at night. our kids are grown now, they sees whats happening, he never was home for them, always in the street. women calling here telling our daugther to tell me to tell my brother (this is whom he tell them he is) that his baby need some diapers. we both are retired and he still is out there. it is hard for me to get him to do anything for me. i just am about to give up, please pray for me and family.
I found out last month that my husband is having multiple affairs. I am devastated. He is denying this even though I have proof. I even confronted one of the girls. She thinks it’s such a joke that she is even posting on Facebook.
My husband leaves the house early in the morning and comes back late at night. We have two kids, 8 year old and 2 month old.
I feel betrayed and disrespected.
I seriously don’t know what to do. I feel like there’s a dark cloud over me. Please pray for me