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 wife. She asked me to leave our home back on December 1st because of a disagreement that we had over our financial situations. Less than a week later oh, she has begun to have an affair with an ex-boyfriend from before we met. It’s not a suspicious situation, there are confirmed facts that she has in fact defiled our marital bed. Please pray with me for a hedge of thorns to surround her and block her path from these Temptations. And pray for hedge of thorns to stand in his way for making continued advances toward my bride. I love my wife unconditionally and I’m willing to seek God’s forgiveness for her and these transgressions.
Please pray hedge of thorns for my husband Colin. He has been having numerous affairs and sexual relationships with other women since we married 14 years ago… We have two beautiful children and we need to save this failing marriage from ending.
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Please pray for my husband, he’s has been having an affair for 3 years but has now ended it. He’s struggling with feelings of guilt as he fathered a child with her. His guilt feelings make him keep going back and telling more lies. Pray that his eyes are opened and he stays committed to our marriage.
Please pray for my wife and our marriage. We have a difficult marriage and separated in early November. Shortly after, she began having an affair with a man who is married with 2 children. She does not see anything wrong with it and has no remorse for potentially destroying two marriages. I am so concerned about her. I am still open to reconciliation, but God will have to do a miracle.
Please pray a hedge of thorns around my husband Paul. Pray he turn from sexual immorality, immoral ways and from other women to reconcile our marriage.
Please pray for my husband and I of ten years. He met someone online and says he is in love with her. He’s decided to leave me and our kids and move out of the home next week. I’m praying for the relationship to end and our marriage to be restored.
Please pray for my spouse and I. He has been unfaithful on many levels since God first ordained this relationship. I pretend I dont know most of the time. Not because im dumb. But beacuse I trust Gods promise. He said we were to be one. I understand we fight not against flesh and i try so hard NOT to take it personal. Im willing to forgive him. But I need the hurt to stop. I NEED the pain to stop. I also understand I am commanded to love God would and that its not always about me. Pray a Hedge of thorns around him to keep him in. Pray that God stands in his way and prevents him feom sinning against himself and the scanitiy of our union. The closer i draw to God the more God reveals. Porn addiction. Meeting strangers for sex. Dating sites. Lunch dates. Im fighting for our souls. Not just for our relationship.
Please pray a hedge thorns for my wife Portia she has been unfaithful in our marriage , she’s committing adultery with work colleagues and with strangers on several dating website,I’m willing to forgive if she stops, pray that God reveal to her goodness of being in the covenant relationship, and to reveal to her in a form of dream or vision about her ungodly action.I command and band all the possess spirit and unclean spirit in her life in the name of Jesus,Ipray in the name of Jesus amen
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Pray a headge of thorns around my husband Stephen and my daughter Liz.
Please pray for a hedge of thorns around my husband who has left our 25 year old marriage for another woman. He has now filed a divorce, but I trust that God can restore my marriage.
Please pray for His will with Tracy and the kids. That we are all saved by Him
Please pray the god out the hedge of thorns up around my husband. His name is Rel. As far as I know he hasn’t had and affair yet, but I fear he is thinking about having one since he is so unhappy at home. He left our house for a trial separation . Please pray he see the worth in our marriage and how much grace and love I do have for him. Send him back to me and remove this woman that is distracting both of us from his life.
Please pray a hedge of thorns be placed around my husband. He has been having an affair with a woman he works with. I pray that God will take his desires and sinful lust for her away. I ask God by the blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ to tear down this spirit of adultery and restore and heal our marriage. Thank you Father for your mighty works in this situation. I ask these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen
I pray for a hedge of thorns be placed around my husband against his addiction to pornography and the desire to seek out other women for sexual gratification. May he be reconciled to be faithful to God’s covenant and our covenant. Amen.
Please God put a hedge of torns around my husband. Have him repent from his ungodly desires and feelings please keep this women away from him and us. Help my husband find his way back and transform him please Lord.