The Lord My Portion Octavius Winslow
The Lord My Portion or, Daily Need Divinely Supplied by Octavius Winslow who was ordained as a pastor in 1833 in New York. He later moved to England where he became one of the most valued nonconformist ministers of the nineteenth century, largely due to the earnestness of his preaching and the excellence of his prolific writings. He held pastorates in Leamington Spa, Bath, and Brighton. He was also a popular speaker for special occasions, such as the opening of C. H. Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in 1861. After a short illness, he died on March 5, 1878, and was buried in Abbey Cemetery, Bath. Winslow wrote more than forty books, in which he promoted an experimental knowledge of the precious truths of God.
The Lord My Portion or, Daily Need Divinely Supplied by Octavius Winslow who was ordained as a pastor in 1833 in New York. He later moved to England where he became one of the most valued nonconformist ministers of the nineteenth century, largely due to the earnestness of his preaching and the excellence of his prolific writings. He held pastorates in Leamington Spa, Bath, and Brighton. He was also a popular speaker for special occasions, such as the opening of C. H. Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in 1861. After a short illness, he died on March 5, 1878, and was buried in Abbey Cemetery, Bath.
Winslow wrote more than forty books, in which he promoted an experimental knowledge of the precious truths of God.
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compassion upon our infirmities, pity our weaknesses, sympathize<br />
with our assaults, bear with our proneness to fall, and restore us when<br />
we wander. Jesus can! Jesus does!<br />
Nor does this divine keeping release us from the solemn obligation of<br />
personal and incessant prayer and watchfulness. <strong>The</strong>re is a sense--<br />
limited indeed--in which the believer is his own keeper. "Keep<br />
yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our <strong>Lord</strong> Jesus<br />
Christ unto eternal life" (Jude 21). Let us, then, be in our watchtower<br />
whole days and whole nights, watching over our besetting sins,<br />
watching against the evil of the world, and watching against the<br />
assaults of the Evil One of the world. Oh, you weak and humble saint of<br />
God, often fearful lest at last you will fall short of heaven, look up! the<br />
<strong>Lord</strong> that bought you with His blood, called you by His grace, preserves<br />
you by His indwelling Spirit, and who prays for you moment by<br />
moment that your faith fails not, keeps you, and will continue to keep<br />
you, until He brings you to glory. "Now unto Him who is able to keep you<br />
from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His<br />
glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior be glory and<br />
majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever! Amen!"<br />
THE LORD MY CARE-TAKER<br />
"<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lord</strong> is my portion, says my soul."<br />
"He cares for you."--1 Pet. 5:7<br />
This may be with you, my soul, a day of anxious care. <strong>The</strong> sun shines<br />
brightly, all nature is clad in beauty, and every object smiles. But with<br />
you it is a cloudy and dark day, and your heart is sad--a care presses you,<br />
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