A footman or a horseman?

This is the topic my friend D. (she is this one who is my prayer-partner in all these things) said came up in a prophetic prayer made over her husband last spring. "He will run with the horses," said the prophet-woman in prayer over K-my friend's husband and a man who has also appeared in my own dreams hand-given by God. Then the season of waiting and wondering what it meant ensues. I've found it to be a spiritual principle in things prophetic: the days of Sabbath. The time between the revelation and the consummation of the thing revealed. A period of time when faith has its perfect work, when watching and praying prove themselves, when pure devotion to God plants itself in a field that looks full of stones and weeds and says "nevertheless, good will grow here." When confusion or even unholiness seem to glow in the heart of the thing God claims is in His hand for the future, then faith says, "He alone will reveal how this is good and fight. I see with eyes not yet perfect, but that which is perfect will come after this Sabbath commitment, and the imperfect part will dissolve away." Then time and chance--those things that Solomon in his wisdom said touch every man's life and are therefore both the domain and the strategic tool of God's enemy--these become instead the very tools by which God is victor.
Moses in the giving of the law said it like this:
Exd 23:12
"Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
Exd 23:13
"And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.
And so it makes sense that there should be talk of a circumspect heart accompanying talk of a sabbath.

The prophets say it like this:
Isa 55:13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.
And so we have the promise that this law and precept is ever at our hands for good when we join God in His seasons of rest and work.

What at last came of that strange prophesy? Just a week ago, here in a season of discouragement and wrestling with gnats and gorillas at every turn for this precious couple...more than any human knows but the two of them as flesh of each other's flesh. Now this verse comes up during a church service and gives D. chills in its prophetic significance:
Jer 12:5
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

An encouragement, like Jesus come along and with a soft compassion making that address, "O ye of little faith..." before giving some word that will bolster the heart in places where is needs shoring up. They will need to run with the horses, in fact they will run with the horses. They needed to know God promised it in this day! So He sent them word of it before it ever made sense, before it ever became a promise of how precious they were in His hand.

As I pray for them on this topic, I find another passage relating simultaneously to footmen and horses:

1Ch 18:3
Then David destroyed the forces of King Hadadezer of Zobah, as far as Hamath,[fn1] when Hadadezer marched out to strengthen his control along the Euphrates River.
1Ch 18:4
David captured one thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Then he crippled all but one hundred of the chariot horses.
1Ch 18:5
When Arameans from Damascus arrived to help Hadadezer, David killed twenty-two thousand of them.
1Ch 18:6
Then he placed several army garrisons in Damascus, the Aramean capital, and the Arameans became David's subjects and brought him tribute money. So the Lord gave David victory wherever he went.

I've heard You say that this seems to be the era of Defining the Remnant in the place where I work. And, here You present yet another reference to that concept.
Bless these friends of mine! And thank You, for how rich it is to hear the story of Your using the same mode of communication with them that You use with me, Lord God!