If you were cured, then you would pay five dollars per day,
for the previous thirty days, and five dollars for each day that you subscribed
to the list. You could end your
subscription at any time. She knew it
was a scam. However, since she wouldn’t
have to pay any money (ever) what could it harm? This is Audio Stories with J.B. Simien and this is the story of “The Joe Prays List”
In 2015, my sister Kim was diagnosed with a cancerous brain
tumor. She did not respond well to the many
rounds of treatment. So, the tumor grew
then multiplied. Close to death, she reached
of anything that could save her life. An
acquaintance suggested she join an online prayer list. She promised miraculous results if she did.
On Fiverr.com my
sister found the vendor called “Joeprays.”
For five dollars per day, he promised that his prayer would cure
disease, regenerate limbs, make the obese slim and the mentally impaired well. He guaranteed that his prayers would cure illness and
prefect the body as long as you continued to subscribe. He allowed new subscribers to try the list
for one month.
At the end of the month,
if your condition persisted, there was no charge. If you
were cured, then you would pay five dollars per day, for the previous thirty
days, and five dollars for each day that you subscribed to the list. You could end your subscription at any time. Kim knew it was a scam. However, since she wouldn’t have to pay any
money (ever) what could it harm? So, she
joined the list.
Twenty-two days later, she was feeling much better. Her doctors were seeing positive results from
the latest round of treatment. Her
tumors were smaller and dying. Each day
she was gaining better health and mental clarity.Her disease had caused a lot of weight lost but it had also
shaped her body into a curvaceous sample of female perfection. Her face and skin were youthful. She was fifty one years old and appeared to
be thirty -five.
At the end of the thirty days, Fivver.com charged her credit
card $150 for the previous month. She
didn’t believe that her improving health was due to a prayer list but maybe it
was. For the next year, her health improved to the point that she no longer
needed medical treatment. She was
healthy and beautiful. Her life was
better than she could ever recall.
After one year of paying “Joeprays,” she decided that it was
all just superstition and it would be ok to end the payments. Surely, it was God who had helped her. Within weeks of that decision, her energy had
dropped and her appearance was returning to the demeanor or a now fifty two
year old woman. Within two months, the
brain tumor had returned.
In desperation, Kim once again subscribed to the “Joeprays”
prayer list. Within months, her good
health and physically attractiveness had returned. However, now the subscription cost her $30
dollars per day and she had to refer five people to the list each month.
It’s been seven years.
Each year the subscription price and the number of people she has to
refer monthly increases. Now, she has to
borrow money just to stay on the list. Like
a drug addict, she is trapped. She wants
to end the subscription but she is convinced that it’s the only thing that’s keeping
her alive.
That ends the story of “The Joe Prays List” I’m J.B. Simien. I hope that you have enjoyed this story. Please like us below and subscribe to Audio
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