White Oak Missionary Baptist Church

09/06/2026

We would love to have your children join us for Vacation Bible School!

09/06/2026

09/06/2026

Welcome to White Oak Baptist Church morning service. We hope you get a Blessing from the hearing the Word of God from Bro. Adam Fielder. Thanks for Joining Us today!
Have a Blessed Week ahead.

09/06/2026

Daily Scripture to Share from White Oak

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO

By: David Jeremiah

Day 3

“We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.”
‭‭James‬ ‭5‬:‭11‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“Calculate the Results of Your Trials”

Trials Produce Durability

James says that the testing of our faith produces patience. “Patience” is not a passive term but an active one. It is not a resignation to whatever happens but a strong and tough resolution in the midst of very adverse circumstances. It would be better translated as “steadfastness,” “perseverance,” or “brave endurance.”

This word is used in Job in James 5:11: “Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.” Trials in the lives of believers refine their faith so that the false is stripped away and the genuine faith that continues to trust God can develop victorious positive endurance.

William Barclay points out that the endurance of the early Christians was not a passive quality: “It is not simply the ability to bear things; it is the ability to turn them to greatness and glory. The thing which amazed the heathen in the centuries of persecution was that the martyrs did not die grimly; they died singing.”

Trials Produce Maturity

James uses two expressions here to define maturity in the life of the believer. When durability has done its work, it causes the Christian to be “perfect” and “complete.”

First of all, mature believers are perfect. This word means “to be fully developed.” Without durability in trials, believers have not yet fully matured. They must learn to persevere in trials so that the work that God has begun in them will be brought to completion.

Three times Paul asked the Lord to remove the thorn in his flesh. While that request was not answered as Paul desired, God did answer him: “My grace is sufficient in you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” The term “perfect” is the same word that James uses here. We are to persevere in our trials so that the work that God has begun in us may be brought to completion.

Second, mature believers are complete. This word refers to something that has all its parts and therefore is whole. It is possible for Christians to be fully grown or mature in most areas in life but be missing this ingredient of steadfastness in trials. Until this has been experienced , they are not yet complete.

White Oak Baptist Church Albertville Alabama

I invite you and your family to join with us at White Oak Missionary Baptist Church in Albertville Alabama for our services:

Sunday School 9:30 am
Worship 10:30 am
Facebook Livestream around 10:45 am

Wednesday Night 7:00 pm
Adult Bible Study/Devotion
Youth and Children Activities

Pastor: Adam Fielder

May God Bless You and Your Family! We would love to have you join with us in person, but if not with us, we encourage you to go to church to Worship God with others. We all need God, a church and a church family in our lives. Peace and Hope are available to all who will come to God through Jesus.

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We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

09/05/2026

Daily Scripture to Share from White Oak

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO

By: David Jeremiah

Day 2

“So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭41‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭7‬:‭4‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

““Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭10‬-‭12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“Celebrate the Reason Behind Your Trials”

James pictures these disenfranchised Israelites as “falling into” trials. The phrase “falling into” might be better translated “encountering.” It is the same term used in the story of the good Samaritan of the man who “fell among thieves.”

By the use of these words, it is obvious that the suffering believers were not overtaken by some sinful activity or temptation. Rather, they were being exploited and slandered and litigated by the rich. God was allowing these experiences to strengthen and mature their faith.

For the Jews, the trials were packaged as persecution. For us today, they could be any number of things: the loss of a job, a divorce, trouble with our children, severe financial strain, illness or death in the family, or relational problems over which we have little control.

It would be easy for us to reason that since we are not experiencing any difficulty at this time, such teaching on trials is not applicable to us. But please note that James does not say if you encounter trials, but when you encounter trials.

And when these inevitable trials come, our first strategy, according to James, is to consider it all joy.

To consider it all joy in the midst of our trials is to respond with a deliberate, intelligent appraisal of our situation. We must learn to look at the experience from God’s perspective and recognize the trial not as a happy experience in itself but as a means of producing something very valuable in life.

Philip Yancey helps us to understand this often-misunderstood concept:
“’Rejoicing in suffering’ does not mean Christians should act happy about tragedy and pain when they feel like crying. Such a view distorts honesty and true expression of feelings. Christianity is not phony. The Bible’s spotlight is on the end result, the use God can make of suffering in our lives. Before He can produce that result, however, He first needs our commitment of trust in Him, and the process of giving Him that commitment can be described as rejoicing.”

As you live in the present consider the future, think forward to the future. Gloom now, but glory in the days to come.

So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name.

09/04/2026

Daily Scripture to Share from White Oak

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO

By: David Jeremiah

Day 1

“James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away. Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“What to Do When the Heat’s Turned Up”

They came up to the ensign and poured a glass of ice water down his back and threw another in his face. The ensign, who had fallen asleep in the chow hall after five sleepless nights, opened his eyes for a second, just long enough to utter a dull “Thank you, sir.” A moment later his eyes rolled upward and then closed. His head went down again. He didn’t touch his meal.

It’s called Hell Week and is part of the navy’s Basic Underwater Demolition School where sailors are turned into SEALs—Sea-Air-Land commandos. By undergoing a grueling regimen of sleepless days and nights, sensory overload, and physical testing, these men are transformed into some of the toughest human beings in the world.

This final period of torturous physical and psychological training begins on Sunday night with exercising and lying wet on cold steel plates, installed on a nearby pier.

On Monday the six-man teams are ordered to run races with 250-pound Zodiac rubber assault boats balanced on their heads. On Tuesday, with less than an hour of sleep the night before, they have to row those Zodiac boats to Mexican waters and back. On Wednesday the men continue the races with boats bouncing on their heads.

The chance to disenroll awaits each student. All he has to do is ring a certain bell three times and say, “I quit.”

By Thursday everyone is hallucinating. By Friday afternoon the week is over, and the new SEALs are lined up to be checked by a doctor.

Only in terms of the ugliness of war can punishment like this make any sense. By pushing these men to the very brink of insanity during times of peace, the navy is giving them the best chance to be ready to face the cruelty of real war if it comes.

With his first words in this letter, James reminds his suffering brothers and sisters that they should not be surprised when they experience intense periods of testing. He knows that they face a spiritual conflict that will require a toughness learned only through proper instruction and monitored experience. James calls God’s training regiment “various [kinds of] trials” (1:2). As he prepares his friends for the inevitable test, he outlines for them and for us the following five strategies to employ when times of testing invade.

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.

09/03/2026

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09/03/2026

Daily Scripture to Share from White Oak

KEEP THE FAITH - IN A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

By: David Jeremiah

Day 5

“Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

The Role of Responsibility

“I take responsibility.” You don’t hear those words every day. In fact, our culture often pushes people to avoid responsibility as much as possible.

This can be a natural reaction during difficult seasons—when our world gets turned upside down. We can easily react to that difficulty by casting blame as far and wide as possible. We look for every possible reason and every potential excuse to explain why things are going wrong.

Except, we rarely look in the mirror.

I want to look at a gift God uses to bless us and keep us moving forward when we choose to keep the faith as His children. That gift is personal responsibility, as found in Ecclesiastes 5.

By the time we get to that section in the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon has already spent two chapters discussing the emptiness of a life apart from God. Then, in the third chapter, he admits that even so, stubborn questions remain. But Solomon stands boldly on the declaration that God has a plan and that even when it is cloaked in several layers of mystery, it is a good plan—a trustworthy plan.

He reminded us that God knows the time and appointed season of every life. He counts the very hairs on your head, and a sparrow doesn’t plummet to earth without His awareness. As Jesus told us, “You are of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:31). Moreover, God knows every implication of every event: positive, negative, or neutral. We live in the goldfish bowl of time and space with all the limitations imposed by that habitation. God is outside that bowl entirely, and He sees past, present, future, and all across every inch of His creation simultaneously. We can’t wrap our minds around that one any more than a goldfish can understand a map of your county.

Seeing, hearing, knowing, and planning all things, and based upon His own mysterious purposes, God governs the affairs of this planet. There will be a time for intervening and a time to refrain from intervening. To feel angry and frustrated is human, but to chastise God is to make a cosmic spectacle of our own folly in the presence of the Alpha and the Omega, the King of kings who loves us so much that He bears the nail marks in His hands, in the presence of the seraphim and cherubim, and all the heavenly realm.

We must decide which side we’re on: Do we honor God as the Lord of life or not? Do we trust Him in the rough times, or only when it’s convenient? Our modern expression “Watch your step!” comes from Solomon’s warning: “Walk prudently.” Literally, the Hebrew says, “Keep your foot.”

When we come into God’s house, we are to draw near to hear, understand, learn, and worship. We are to cultivate an attitude of reverence, expectation, and a holy sense of resignation to His will. Blaming God for our struggles does nothing to alleviate them, but walking carefully before Him will aid our efforts to keep the faith.

So be ready! Be willing! Be strong and courageous!

Respond

What responsibility has God given you?
How do you carry out that responsibility?
Prayer

Heavenly Father, thank You for calling me and trusting me to serve You by sharing the love and message of Jesus Christ.

Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

09/02/2026

Daily Scripture to Share from White Oak

KEEP THE FAITH - IN A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

By: David Jeremiah

Day 4

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬-‭8‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

The Power of Perseverance

There is an amazing promise found in the book of 2 Peter that I want to make sure you know about: “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (1:3 NIV). Right there in black and white, God has promised to give you everything you need to live an authentic, impactful life as a member of His kingdom. And one of those things you need is perseverance. Look at what Peter wrote later in that chapter:

Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (vv. 5–8 NIV, emphasis added)
Perseverance is a never-give-up attitude, a commitment to move forward when everything conspires to hold you back. No matter what happens, you finish the job. Think of the English word itself: persevere. The prefix per conveys the idea of “through,” so perseverance is the ability to go through a severe time.

Perseverance turns ordeals into opportunities. It gives us the opportunity to finish what we begin, to outlast pain and sorrow, to strive until we accomplish difficult things, and to demonstrate God’s grace in all seasons of life.

Those who learn to accept and use God’s gift of perseverance are forces to be reckoned with. In a world where most people give up and give out, those who keep going will accomplish more than they can imagine.

The entire ministry of our Savior was plagued with difficulty and opposition. During Jesus’ forty-day wilderness fast, Satan tried to derail Him with temptations disguised as painless shortcuts to His goal. Throughout His ministry, He endured opposition, exhaustion, and misunderstanding. Near the end, He vividly foresaw the horrors looming ahead and prayed in abject agony with sweat pouring from Him like great drops of blood. Finally, He was falsely accused in a mock trial, brutally scourged, and nailed to a cross to hang for six agonizing hours as blood poured from the thorns lacerating His scalp, from the wounds in His hands and His back, and finally from the wound of a spear impaling His side.

And yet He persevered through it all.

The result? Forgiveness for us, the shattering of the gates of hell, and glorious resurrection from the dead. When we keep our eyes on Jesus, He gives us the spiritual stamina to run with perseverance, endure, and never grow weary or lose heart.

When you feel like quitting, just look at the cross. Look at the empty tomb! Look at His ascension into heaven. Look at Him there on the throne. Look at His victory. Look at His love for you. Look at His grace. Consider Him. Meditate on Him. Talk to Him. Draw from His Word.

And never give up.

Respond

Describe a struggle in your life that Jesus helped you persevere through.
How did Jesus get you through that time?
Prayer

Lord Jesus, each day comes with new challenges. May I keep my eyes focused on You and Your ultimate plan for me.

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.