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 husband Tracy to end adultery and turn away. Pray for our my restoration and for us to be back in the same house today
My Wife Nichelle in an adulterous relationship. Please pray for her we are still together we are trying to fix things but I think the thoughts and desires are still there.
My wife has been in rebellion from God which led to her not being the wife and mom she was, and now has had an affair. She has filed for divorce and lied to have me forced out of my home. I need to be back in my home with my children, and I still have hope for my wife’s heart to change and our marriage and family to be restored.
Please pray fory husband he has started dating other woman more so he is a pastor
Prayers For I kenyetta and terrance marriage
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for your many blessings. Please intervene and stop the enemy’s attacks, breaking every stronghold he attempts. My family is separated, and I miss them more than words can express. Please heal us and reunite us using all of the armies of heaven. You have blessed us so much, and I’m asking you to do it again. I pray that our cup overflows, not out of greed, but in love from the depths of my heart. I trust that you bless your people when we ask and do your work. Thank you, Father in heaven. Amen.
PLEASE pray for my husband Eric. He has been in a relationship with another woman and has not been intimate with me for over 5years. This made me relationship my heavenly Father to suffer which shouldn’t be the case. My fatherk dd me before the foundations of the world, so my relationship with him should be first n foremost. Pray for my son Charles who has lazy tendencies even at the age of 33years old. He is still living with me
Please pray for my wife to come back to me we are separated, my jealousy drove her away please help me be a better man.
Pray for my husband who has been unfaithful and might have infected me with an sti.
My wife Lisa is having and an affair and we are separated. Please pray that she will return to our marriage. That The Lord will soften her heart towards her marriage and towards me and the affair will stop.
Please pray for my husband who broke down and confessed to 35 years of serial cheating, lying, and manipulation. He seems to be truly repentant and cannot stand the man in the mirror. I pray this is not more lies and manipulation. Please guide him to counseling and true repentance. Please give me strength and peace.
Pray for Shanda my wife. She believes she is a saved believer, but has abandoned our marriage and worse left for an unbelieving ex-boyfriend (her words)… She is unrepentant and does not feel it is my business. I have shared Gods scriptures with her but she has to this point ignored his word. She does not believe she has turned her bad on God, but she is blinded by what she is doing in this continuous and deliberate path of Adultry. I am forgiving and praying that the Holy Spirit convict her heavily of this sin, to utter shame and guilt and to fully recognize her need to repent and to remove herself from the situation. I Pray that she will return to God and to the Marriage Covenant Formed through God. I Pray that all strongholds, evil warefair and evil influences be shattered and uprooted in Jesus Name. May the heart of the unbeliever be hardened once again to drive her out through the Prayer of Hedges once and for all. In Jesus Name, I Pray. Amen
Please pray for my wife, she left with the kids, and I have made all efforts to bring her back but to no avail.
Please help me pray for my husband. That his love and faithfulness for our family will return. Protect him from bad influence, temptations of the flesh, and please cut all ties binding him with those who seek destruction of his soul. Help him see the love of God in his life again.
Please pray for my wife she is becoming unfaithful and aldultrous acts and she’s lies a lot, she playing with bad friends they taken her love of Christ no she is always out drinking at night and the spirit of separation has entered our marriage pray for that she be restored to God once more and our marriage forever
Please Pray for my husband Willie that God gives him a new love for God and our family. Pray that God delivers him from gambling and women and deliver him from the soul ties he has with these women and binds that spirit of adultery and loses holy matrimony and faithfulness over our marriage.