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 help me pray for my husband Adam, we are going on 6years or marriage. He was the men’s leader at church and was also a member along with myself a member of our praise team. He works in a prison and began seeing a woman who works there and within a few weeks he left to live with her. It has been two and a half months. He tells his mom and myself that he is miserable he’s not happy like he thought he was ans he wants to come home but he’s still there. This is not the first marriage this woman destroys. And is known for using witchcraft. Word waa given over our marriage when we were engaged and after we got married and the devil has attacked him and he fell. I am praying and believing that God will cause him to turn to him in repentance and restore him and our marriage. And because of the word that was given to us I know God does not make mistakes.
Please pray for my wife of over 20 years. She left over three weeks ago with some of my younger children.
Please pray for my husband that he returns back to our covenant marriage and that my heart can heal.
Please pray for my marriage shy of 2 years my husband has been committing adultery for 5 months and when I confronted he packed his things took off his ring and left our home I’ve been praying for a hedge of thorns around him for conviction of his wrong doing and restoration of our covenant marriage and family please touch agree and pray with me also pray for healing and peace in our marriage my heart and our minds
Please pray for the return of my husband of 25years. I pray that he will never get involved with any woman and return to our covenant marriage. I pray that his mind be healed and cleansed from all the negative thoughts that have manipulated and poisoned him against me. I pray that he be rid of all the friends and associates that have influenced him to leave me and who have introduced him to the evil temptations of this world. I ask all of this in the name of Jesus Christ and by his precious blood. Amen
Dear prayer warriors,
I come before you with a heart burdened for my family—my wife and three children. Please join me in heartfelt prayer for our healing, reconciliation, and financial restoration. I ask for God’s divine protection over us, and for communication to be restored in love and understanding. As we pray, let us hold onto the promise in John 14:14, believing that whatever we ask in Jesus’ name, He will do. May the precious blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth cover and guide us in every step. Thank you for your prayers, and may God bless you abundantly.
In gratitude, Christopher
Please pray that Jim will return to his wife of 34 years and repent to God for straying.
Please pray for my wife she is acting like a totally different person she is being unfaithful to our marriage I need god’s powerful words to break the hold the devil has on her
Please pray for my marriage my husband says he loves the strange woman and wants to divorce me. He is always angry at me and sees me as enemy.
I’m praying for my husband that even now his spiritual eyes will be open and that he will ask the Lord to help him to remove himself from the adulterous relationship he is in. I know that God will change things for him but he has to want it. AGW
Please pray for my husband who is having an affair for a long time now with a separated woman who is an active Catholic catechist in our Diocese.
Please pray for my husband DSmith as he has moved out a month ago and is living an adulterous life with a woman who has planted herself in our marriage almost 4 years now my 3 young children are suffering so much all i do is cry. Please pray for us
In the name of Jesus Christ.
Please pray for my husband, LT. He’s living in adultery away from his children and me. He divorced me last August, but I am standing for our marriage to be resurrected, in Jesus name!
Pray for restoration of my covenant marriage. Also restored to my son who is angry with me , he is in fornication with his girlfriend and have two babies. And one on the way. She will not accept me and kept me from ever meeting my grand children. Then to open teeny eyes of my children of the relationships their dad keeps having. They consider her like his wife. Even though he is my covenant, and by our laws not married to these woman. They plan family things to involve them for the beginning…. I am never included not two of my other children.
Please pray for my wife, Amy, myself, and our kids. I pray first and foremost that she turns from her sin and pursues a relationship with Jesus. I also pray that God will turn her away from the adulterous relationship she has gotten into and back to our marriage. I pray that God will heal her heart and allow her to know His true forgiveness. Ezekiel 36:26 says: I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I pray that for her. I love her and her so much and also love her two kids as if they were my own. We also have a son together. Thank you for praying for our marriage to be healed and restored.
Praying.