Jesus called Herod a “fox.” That was not a nice or cute name. Foxes were considered pests that came into the vineyards and orchards and ate the early fruit before it could be harvested. 

Foxes are small animals, about the size of a house cat or a small dog, yet a fox is capable of doing terrible damage. They burrow and chew in a vineyard until the vines wither and become unproductive. They also eat the tender shoots of the vines. They are sly and sneak around day and at night, and the farmers don’t always see them doing this to catch them. They can ruin an entire crop even before it starts to bloom! Many fruit farmers to this day hire falconers to come and bring their falcons to fly over the fruit groves to find the foxes with their keen eyes and fast moves to hunt down the foxes and destroy them. 

What did Jesus mean then to curse Herod with calling him a “fox,” Herod’s father was the one who ordered to kill all the baby boys under the age of 2 when Jesus was born. Herod, the son, wanted to disrupt Jesus’ ministry and killed John the Baptist, thus coming against the move and fruit of the Holy Spirit. 

Spiritual foxes work through people and influences and usually are around us and our children when the enemy wants to devour the fruits of the Holy Spirit that are just beginning in us. This is an important understanding we must have, and we have to be vigilant.  

If I see a fox in nature or in a dream I know it’s a sign to pray this prayer. 

After you’ve been in the Courts of Heaven for your family and done land assignments in your city/state/region repenting for the sins and pouring the blood of Jesus in the land, there is no cause for a curse. It cannot operate anymore, but you have to stay vigilant. You have to be a watchman on the wall for everything in your life. You have to watch for those sneaky foxes, and then ask God to render judgment so that your city, your state, and your family and children can bear good fruit.

It’s the sneaky spiritual foxes – evil spirits – that can work through influences around them  – that want to come after the early fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life, in your children, in your family and marriage, in your schools, and in your city and state. 

Pray Out Loud

• “Father God, I’m asking you, according to Your Word in Matthew 3:10 and also Song of Solomon 2:15, to go and judge the bad fruit in this situation _______. Take Your ax of judgment and chop at the root every evil influence at  _______. Chop out, root out, pull up at the roots, leaving neither root nor branch nor any of the bad seeds nor any of the bad fruit, not even a leaf! Root out their unholy, ungodly influence, and cast it into the fire. They will never have any influence over _______ ever again! Judge it, Lord, according to Your Word, in Jesus’ name!

 

• “Father God, in its place, I ask you to plant Holy Spirit-filled influences in those areas in _______. Let revival for Jesus Christ arise. Raise up Your prophets, teachers, and evangelists in _______, in Jesus’ name!”   

If you see sneaky foxes coming in and influencing your spouse, children, or other loved ones, continue on with the prayer below:

Prayer For God To Release Hunter and Trapper Angels To “Hunt and Trap The Foxes”

Pray Out Loud

• “Father, thank You for Your word that teaches and guides us how to pray for our children and marriages. By faith, we know that You want us to bloom and prosper and produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit from walking in our divine purpose and having a close relationship with You, Lord.

 

• “Father, I am coming to You today decreeing and standing upon Your word in Song of Solomon 2:15, ‘Catch for us the foxes — the little foxes that ruin the vineyards — for our vineyards are in bloom.’

 

• “Father, I can clearly see that there are sneaky little foxes in the spirit realm that are stealing the fruits of the Holy Spirit that my loved one, _______, is meant to produce in their life. My loved one, _______, is gifted and anointed by You, Father, to fulfill their calling in life and to come into a full relationship with Jesus Christ. My loved one, _______, is being hindered by those foxes that are trying to spoil their fruit and the branches that connect them to Christ, who is the vine.

 

• “According to Your word in John 15:5, Jesus said, ‘I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.’

 

• “In the name of Jesus, I ask that Your Hunter and Trapper Angels be released on behalf of my loved one, _______, to hunt and trap those foxes that are coming against Your will and Your plans for their life. I ask that these Hunter and Trapper Angels go now to catch every single sneaky fox that is operating in and around my loved one, _______, and send those foxes far, far away from my loved one, _______, forever!

 

• “I decree that those sneaky foxes will never come near my loved one again and will never be allowed to touch their fruits of the Holy Spirit ever again, in Jesus’ mighty name! Amen.”

Note: If your loved one is prodigal, you may want to pray my prodigal prayer over them as well. See link below in the resources section.

Recently, the Lord also brought me to Judges Chapter 15 and revealed yet another prayer strategy to get rid of the foxes in our prodigals lives by burning them up! 

“Samson, angry at the father of the Philistine woman he married who gave her to someone else (Judges 15:1-2), decides to get revenge. He catches 300 foxes, and then in pairs, ties their tails, along with a small torch, together with a cord. Then he lets them loose among the Philistine farmland. This causes, not only the recently harvested crops, but also that which was yet to be harvested to be consumed by fire (Judges 15:5).” https://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/300.html 

He’s saying to set those foxes on fire and destroy their wicked fruit. God will bring His holy fire and catch the spiritual, demonic foxes in the lives of the prodigals on fire, and those foxes will flee and destroy the wicked fruit.

So we can ask Father God to take revenge on the enemy and the enemy’s agenda against our children that has caused them to go prodigal – to destroy the enemy’s fields and their foxes with fire. 

Pray Out Loud

• Father God, in Jesus’ name, I ask You now to send Your holy fire to burn up the foxes that are coming against the fruit of the Holy Spirit in my loved one, _______, and to destroy the fields of the enemy. My loved one, _______, will never be in the fields of the enemy again! I ask you to reconcile _______ back to Jesus so he/she will walk with God for the rest of his/her life. Thank You, Father God, for hearing and answering my prayer!

Scripture References

Proverbs 26:2 (NKJV)
“Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.”

Song of Solomon 2:15 (KJV)
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.”

Matthew 3:10 (KJV)
“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”

Judges 15:1-5 (NLT)
“Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, ‘I’m going into my wife’s room to sleep with her,’ but her father wouldn’t let him in. 2 ‘I truly thought you must hate her,’ her father explained, ‘so I gave her in marriage to your best man. But look, her younger sister is even more beautiful than she is. Marry her instead.’ 3 Samson said, ‘This time I cannot be blamed for everything I am going to do to you Philistines.’ 4 Then he went out and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together in pairs, and he fastened a torch to each pair of tails. 5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the grain fields of the Philistines. He burned all their grain to the ground, including the sheaves and the uncut grain. He also destroyed their vineyards and olive groves.”

Resources

Daily Suit-Up Prayers 

How To Appear In The Courts Of Heaven – Remove Generational Curses 

Five Strategies For Praying Your Prodigals Home (And Back To God)

Prayer To Remove Un-Godly Relationships And Influences – Ax Of God’s Judgment

Land Prayer Assignments Guide And Index

Prayers For Schools & Education System – Courts Of Heaven – Repentance And Land Assignment

​US Judicial System Prayer Assignment – Repentance In The Courts Of Heaven 

Prayers For Post Office