When Your Therapist Needs Therapy: A 3:07 AM Divine Appointment

How God Used a Marriage Counseling Session to Reveal a Deeper Battle—and Called Me to Minister to the Minister

The image captures a 3:07 AM Divine Appointment: When the Holy Spirit breaks through darkness to minister to a struggling therapist, revealing that even counselors need deliverance, and professionals need the fullness of God’s power.

At 3:07 AM, God flipped the script: my marriage counselor became my mission field. When the Holy Spirit reveals your therapist needs therapy, obedience demands you bring the fire.

Yesterday, I sat in our marriage counseling session feeling frustrated, constrained, and almost ready to burst.

Our therapist, Jennifer (not her real name), is a Christian woman. She’s educated, professional, experienced. She cares about helping people. But as the session progressed, I felt the Holy Spirit showing me something that made my spirit groan within me:

She doesn’t understand spiritual warfare.

She kept circling back to medication. To clinical diagnoses. To behavioral strategies and coping mechanisms. And while I respect her training and expertise, I couldn’t shake the conviction burning in my chest:

“You’re putting a Band-Aid on an open wound. You’re treating symptoms while the root—demonic oppression, generational curses, spiritual strongholds—remains untouched.”

At one point, she asserted her authority: “I’m the professional here. I’m the one who’s educated. I know this like the back of my hand.”

And in that moment, the Holy Spirit whispered to my spirit: “And YOU are the spiritual leader. YOU are the one with My gifts—prophecy, discernment, intercession. YOU understand the battle she cannot see.”

I wanted to say it out loud. I wanted to lovingly but firmly tell her: “Jessica, you’re missing 99% of what’s really happening here because you don’t walk in the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s power.”

But I held my tongue. I prayed. I asked God: “What do I do? How do I help her see?”

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When God Answers at 3:07 AM

This morning, I woke up at 3:07 AM with Jennifer heavy on my heart.

I prayed: “Lord, show me how to reach her. Show me how to open her eyes to something bigger than her training, bigger than her degrees, bigger than what she thinks she knows.”

And then I opened my Bible to the Gospel reading of the day.

Luke 12:49-53:

“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three...”

I sat there in the dark, tears streaming down my face.

God just answered my prayer.

Jesus was telling me: “Marco, you’re not being difficult. You’re not being unteachable. You’re feeling constrained because you see the TRUTH, and truth divides before it unites. The fire you’re carrying—the fullness of the Gospel, the power of the Holy Spirit—it WILL cause division. Even in the counseling room. Even with well-meaning professionals. Even in your own house of six.”

The Holy Spirit was commissioning me: “Don’t back down. Bring the fire. Speak the truth. Even if it creates tension. Even if it challenges her understanding. Even if it divides.”

So I wrote Jessica an email.

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The Email That Changed Everything

At 3:07 AM, I sent Jessica a thoughtful but firm message. I honored her professional expertise, but I also established my spiritual authority as the leader of my family. I told her:

• Medication is not the primary solution. It’s a Band-Aid when the real issue is spiritual.

• Spiritual warfare is real and active. You cannot counsel someone through battles you don’t understand.

• I must lead spiritually, and I need you to partner with that. There are two forms of authority in that room—your clinical expertise and my spiritual authority under God. Both are valid. Both must work together.

I asked her to expand her understanding, to acknowledge the reality of spiritual warfare, and to support (not undermine) the Holy Spirit-led decisions I make for my family.

I closed with this:

“I believe God brought us together for a reason. Perhaps part of that reason is not just for you to help my family, but for my family’s journey to help open your eyes to a deeper dimension of healing that will equip you to help countless others in the future.”

I hit send at 3:07 AM.

And then the Holy Spirit spoke again.

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“She’s Awake Too. She’s Hurting. Reach Out to Her.”

As soon as I sent that email, the Holy Spirit immediately laid Jessica on my heart—not as my therapist, but as a woman in desperate need of what I’ve been trying to tell her about.

And suddenly, the gift of discernment kicked in. I SAW it:

Jessica is struggling with her own spiritual battles.

There’s chaos in her home. Her husband is bipolar. She’s carrying burdens her professional training can’t fix. She sees the peace and strength in my wife Maria—the calmness she’s mentioned in our sessions—and there’s a part of her that wonders: “How does she have that? Why don’t I have that?”

She’s the counselor who needs counseling.
She’s the professional who’s drowning in her own home.
She’s awake at 3:07 AM because she’s in a battle she doesn’t know how to fight.

And God was saying: “Marco, reach out to her. She’s hurting. She needs what you have. Show her the way.”

So I sent her another email.

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“Jessica, You’re Struggling Too, Aren’t You?”

I told her what the Holy Spirit was showing me. I told her I sensed chaos in her home, burdens she couldn’t counsel away, spiritual warfare she couldn’t think her way out of.

I told her:

“You can’t counsel your way out of spiritual warfare. You can’t think your way into peace. You can’t manage chaos that’s rooted in the demonic. But you CAN have freedom. You CAN have peace. You CAN have the strength and joy you see in Maria.”

I offered to pray with her—not as her client, but as a brother in Christ who’s been in the darkness and found the Light.

And then I did what God called me to do.

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I Prayed a Warfare Prayer Over Her

At 3:37 AM, I stood in the gap as an intercessor and prayed a bold, authoritative prayer over Jessica’s life:

“Father, I declare RIGHT NOW that every chain binding Jessica is BROKEN in Jesus’ name. Every spirit of fear—BROKEN. Every spirit of anxiety—BROKEN. Every spirit of chaos in her home—BROKEN. Every generational curse—BROKEN. Every demonic assignment against her husband—BROKEN.”

I prayed for the baptism of the Holy Spirit to fall on her. I prayed for her eyes to be opened. I prayed for breakthrough in her home, freedom for her husband, and a supernatural encounter with the fullness of God’s power.

I prayed that she would no longer be a counselor operating in human wisdom alone, but a counselor operating in the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s power—with prophecy, discernment, deliverance, and the gifts of the Spirit.

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The Lesson: Sometimes God Sends You to Minister to the Minister

Here’s what I learned at 3:07 AM:

God doesn’t always send us to people who have it all together. Sometimes He sends us to the helpers, the professionals, the ministers, the counselors—the ones everyone else leans on—because they’re drowning too.

Jessica needed to see the power of the Holy Spirit in action. She needed to witness what happens when a family surrenders everything to God. She needed someone to speak truth into her life, even if it challenged her professional identity.

And God chose me—a man she’s supposed to be counseling—to be the one to minister to her.

That’s the upside-down Kingdom of God. That’s the fire Jesus came to bring. That’s the division that precedes breakthrough.

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What About You?

Maybe you’re in a similar situation. Maybe you’re sitting across from a pastor, a counselor, a mentor, a leader who’s giving you advice that doesn’t align with what the Holy Spirit is showing you.

Maybe you feel constrained, frustrated, like you’re going to burst because you SEE something they don’t see.

Don’t ignore that.

That constraint is holy. That frustration is prophetic. That fire is from God.

You might be called to lovingly but firmly bring truth into that room—not in arrogance, but in obedience. You might be called to minister to the minister, to pray for the counselor, to intercede for the leader.

Don’t back down. Bring the fire.

And if God wakes you up at 3:07 AM with someone heavy on your heart—reach out. That’s not insomnia. That’s intercession. That’s a divine appointment.

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Prayer for Today

Father, give us the courage to speak truth even when it causes division. Give us the discernment to see the battles others are fighting in secret. Give us the compassion to stand in the gap for those who are supposed to be standing for us. And give us the boldness to bring the fire of Your Holy Spirit into every room we enter—even the counseling room, even the therapy session, even the places where human wisdom says we should stay quiet.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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What divine appointment is God calling you to step into today? Who is He asking you to reach out to, pray for, or speak truth to—even if it’s uncomfortable?

Drop a comment below. Let’s encourage each other to walk in boldness and obedience.

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In Faith, Love and Hope,
Marco “Faith Warrior” Benavides

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