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If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?
Jeremiah 12:5

In the Olympic Games, the greatest runners of the world compete for gold medals and laurel wreaths. Long before the final race, competitions are held in countries throughout the world to weed out those who are not fast enough to compete. At the Games, the fastest of the fast qualify for the final competition.

The prophet Jeremiah was also involved in a fierce competition—but it was with idolaters and wicked priests. He was responding to the Lord’s call to condemn Judah and to predict her downfall. He became so discouraged that he asked the Lord,

“Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are [they] happy?” (12:1).

That’s when God said to Jeremiah, in essence, “The competition has just begun. So far you’ve been dealing with minor issues (running with footmen). How will you handle it when the really tough stuff comes (contending with horses)?”

Perhaps you’ve run into some difficulties recently: your boss, an illness, conflicts in your church. You’ve pleaded with the Lord for relief. But He may have said in response, “Toughen up. Dig in. It may get worse.” When He asks you to “run with horses,” He will be with you to strengthen and sustain you.

That’s what God does. — David C. Egner


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Don't Go Back! It is Time to Run with the Horses!

Going through times of transition and adjusting our pace in His race always tempts a person to "go back."

DON'T!

Has the Lord spoken to you concerning your breakthroughs and told you it was time to "run with the horses"? Then know that if He is speaking this to you, the devil wants you to remain a footman.

Footmen cannot see beyond what is directly in front of them. Their vision is blocked by obstacles - problems, negativity and challenges - that stand in their paths; thus, they move slowly on foot. Upon a horse, however, not only does one move faster, but the view is also broader and not so restricted. Jeremiah had survived at a footman's level for a very long season and was remaining there. God was prophesying to Jeremiah and speaking to his potential as the Lord told him to rise up and run with the horses!

If we remain on a footman's level, we will see things only through a footman's view. When God begins to renew our minds, He removes old paradigms because they limit our thinking. Paradigms box us into old patterns and mindsets that prohibit change.

When the Lord says it is time for us to run with the horses, He is saying that it is time for promotion. Get ready to change, to rise up and embrace a new level of maturity to conquer whatever stands in your way!

If God is speaking a horseman's challenge to you, He is requiring more maturity. No longer will ground-level concerns be allowed...for footmen murmur and complain. They focus on the air-conditioning in the church, whether it is too hot or too cold, how the pastor is dressed, if they received enough recognition or how well the church is landscaped. Those running with the horses do not have the time to be overly concerned about such trivial matters. Running with horses requires a fast pace, a higher level, a higher highway.

Running with the horses requires that one see beyond obstacles blocking the paths to victory and, more importantly, seeing through the obstacles to the other side. Horsemen realize that on the other side of the mountain lies victory. On the other side of the river is the possession of the promise. We need a divine ability to see by His Spirit.

Sandie Freed
Zion Ministries