How to Pray: A Pocket Guide to the Four Principles of Prayer Taught by Jesus is a simple approach to learning, discovering, and practicing the lessons of communion with your Heavenly Father. The Lord Jesus Christ gave us a science for prayer in the four principles He gave during the sermon on the mount as recorded in Matthew 6. Steve Durkac, a pastor with 30 years ministry experience, has been presenting these four simple steps to prayer since 1990 through seminars, sermons, and one-on-one counseling and you too can benefit from our Lord's four principles of effective, meaningful, and joyful prayer!