Thomas Brooks, a Puritan pastor, counsels believers to confront all temptations (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the boastful pride of life) with the words of the Psalmist: “The LORD is my portion” (16:5; 73:26; 119:57; 142:5). He exhorts:

Luther counsels every Christian to answer all temptations with the short saying, ‘I am a Christian’ and I would counsel every Christian to answer all temptations with this short saying, ‘The Lord is my portion.’

• O Christian, when Satan or the world shall tempt thee with honors, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion,’
• when they shall tempt thee with riches, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• when they shall tempt thee with preferment, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• and when they shall tempt thee with the favors of great ones, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• yea and when this persecuting world shall threaten thee with the loss of thy estate, answer ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• and when they shall threaten thee with the loss of thy liberty, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• and when they shall threaten thee with the loss of friends, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;’
• and when they shall threaten thee with the loss of life, answer, ‘the Lord is my portion;.
• O sirs! If Satan should come to you with an apple, as once he did to Eve, tell him the “the Lord is your portion;”
• or with a grape, as once he did to Noah, tell him that “the Lord is your portion;
• or with a change of raiment, as once he did to Gehazi, tell him that ‘the Lord is your portion;
• or with a wedge of gold, as once he did to Achan, tell him that “the Lord is your portion;”
• or with a bag of silver, as once he did with Judas, tell him that “the Lord is your portion.”[1]

[1] Thomas Brooks, The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, vol 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Edinburgh, Scotland: James Nichol, 1666), 114.