LATEST TEACHING
THE RIB
Presented by Minister Lisa Kane
Published on 11.19.25
Objective:
To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed.
Synopsis:
Beloved, God did not pull the woman from Adam’s head or his feet—He drew her from the rib, the place of protection, covering, and strength. From the beginning, God revealed His heart: to be a Helper, and to place His helping nature inside the woman. Scripture shows that God Himself is called “Helper” again and again—defending the fatherless, strengthening the weak, and answering the helpless. When God created woman as “a helper comparable to him,” He was sharing His own attribute with her.
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This lesson walks through Genesis, Psalms, Hosea, the Gospels, and the New Testament to uncover the beauty and responsibility of that role. The enemy seeks the “helpless,” but women were not made helpless—we were made helpers, protectors, intercessors, spiritual rib-cages around our husbands. Through prayer, we guard our households, shield our husbands from attack, and stand in the gap like Jesus did when He prayed for Peter that his faith would not fail.
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We look at the rib as a symbol of spiritual covering, the unity of becoming one flesh, and the order God established in marriage—wives aligning under God to pray for their husbands, and husbands loving like Christ who gave Himself for the church. This divine order brings transformation to both husband and wife.
Finally, the lesson embraces the single believer: God Himself becomes your Helper. The same God who defends the fatherless, strengthens the weak, and stands against every weapon formed is the One who covers you. As you commit yourself to Him, He shapes you into a vessel of love, prayer, and spiritual strength.
In all things, we learn that to be “the rib” is not a position of weakness—but a position of divine power, prayer, and purpose, patterned after the very heart of God Himself.
Lesson in written form:
Did you know that God is our helper? Did you know that women made of the rib are made to be helpers in our relationship with our husbands?
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Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [g]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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Genesis 2:20-22 NKJV
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He [h]made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
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The term ‘help’ is found 28 times alone in the book of Psalms NKJV.
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What is the role of the ‘helper’?
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Psalm 10:8 NKJV
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
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Our enemy is looking for the ‘helpless’ but us women were made to be helpers of our man.
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Psalm 10:14 NKJV
14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Here we see the Psalmist saying that God is the ‘helper’ to the fatherless. God takes the role of ‘helper’ when needed, and anyone who feels ‘helpless’ can commit his or her self to God.
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With this, we can see the role of ‘helper’ comes from God and comes from women.
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Psalm 12:1 NKJV
Help,[b] Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
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Here we see David calling out on God’s ‘help’ because the godly man ceases.
God is our helper and will answer our cry for help.
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Psalm 37:40 NKJV
40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him.
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So, woman was made from the rib of the man as a ‘helper’ to her man. And as a man and woman, both are made in the image of Him – male and female.
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Remember Genesis 1:27 we read earlier:
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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As a man and woman, we complete the image of God but as you also saw, men without a mate, the fatherless, and women without a mate can call on God’s help and God will be our help, completing the image that He created us to be.
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Hosea 13:7-9 NKJV
7 “So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk; 8 I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The [e]wild beast shall tear them. 9 “O Israel, [f]you are destroyed, But [g]your help is from Me.
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There are two important points to grab from Hosea 13:7-9: First, it takes a wild beast that is strong to tear open the rib cage and second, God says the help we have is from Him. That means God has to approve the wild beast to destroy / tear us apart…as long as we’re calling on the Lord, we have God’s help.
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As we read earlier in Psalms:
Psalm 10:14 NKJV
14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
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The helpless commits his or herself to God and God helps. If only Israel had listened…
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But we can. We can commit ourselves to the Lord and have His help.
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Now, here is the best part of this teaching, in my opinion. Women were made from the rib. The rib cage protects vital organs inside of us. When we have our mate, we are extension of that rib cage. We can pray for our mate and keep him protected because we represent the help of the Lord.
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Jesus is our help and He’s praying for us.
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Luke 22:31-32 NKJV
31 [d]And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”
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Women, as we are the helper, we pray like Jesus being the ‘helper’ that we’re made to be. We pray.
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Mark 10:7-9 NKJV
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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1 Peter 2:24 NKJV
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a]stripes you were healed.
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Isaiah 54:17 NKJV
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.
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The above scriptures is just a few examples of what we can pray over our man.
We pray for our man that ‘no weapon formed against him shall prosper’. We pray ‘that by His stripes we are and were healed’. We pray that no man will separate us because what God brought together, no one will separate’.
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This is committing and applying God to our relationship as man and woman. This is why Paul says in Ephesians:
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Ephesians 5:22-28 NKJV
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [g]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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Women, by submitting to God, you are submitting to your husband by praying over him and giving him to God. That prayer causes you to align with God and God moves through your man, changing him to ‘love’ you as Christ loves the church. He also works change in you helping you to be a better woman of God.
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God is a God of order. He placed this order for us to obey. Obedience is an act of commitment, and this is how we women pray for our man as the ‘helper’ God called us to be.
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Start praying for your man and your relationship, and watch God make changes in both of you.
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If you are single, know this: God is your helper. He’s praying for you. Commit yourself to Him and pray over yourself. With you and God praying over yourself, He will change you into a better person demonstrating love and all the fruit of the spirit.
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