A Prayer for God’s Best. 1 Thess. 5:16-28Christianity is not a list of rules,” and of course that’s true, Christianity cannot simply be reduced to a series of rules, of commands, of dos and don’t’s. Christianity is a message about what God has done for us in Jesus Christ, not about what we do to make ourselves right with Him but what He has done to forgive us and accept us and save us and welcome us into His family; that’s very true. But it’s not true that there are no commands in the Christian life and that there are no dos or don’ts to observe.Paul is in fact giving these dos and don’ts as a serious encouragement to Christian living. You know sometimes you need to be incited to do things that you really need to do and Paul’s providing incitement of prayer to the Christian life. We all need nudges. You know, when you’re exercising perhaps you need a friend who calls you in the morning and says, “We’re running,” or “We’re lifting weights,” or sends you a text and says, “I’m going to meet you at the gym.” Sometimes we need somebody that nudges us, even nags us, to do the things that we know that we need to do. Well in the spiritual life, we need incitements, we need encouragements, we need nudges, and these dos and don’ts – eight of them here in verses 16 to 22 – Paul is giving as an incitement to the living of the Christian life.Paul in verse 23-28 is is giving us a prayer for the best (His Church,Christian believer,His prayer and precepts for sanctification, holiness and purity.Holiness is totally a divine work of Grace.This is the Lords gift to all Christians. Wholeness is sustained by God.