Corinthians tells us that we are new creatures. A brand new species and this new creation potential is totally different from all your family before you.   It's not your haircut, clothes or address that changes but you. You will see differently at every level so all of life is new. Your perception of God, others and yourself is changed. How you see yourself is more important than how you see your future. You can be told of a great Promised Land and future but if you don’t see yourself as able to enter in, you won’t be able to enter it. We can’t take the Promised Land with the mindset of a slave. And people don’t get what could be theirs, they only get what they think they deserve or that they are capable of possessing.   The most important vision is not what you see ahead of you but what you see inside yourself. Israel had trouble in their thinking.  "To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.   Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us," Eph 3: 19-20 God is able to do exceeding above what we can think.   The problem is not with God, the problem is with us- where is the limit of what we can think.   Can we think about ourselves differently and what God can do in us?  We may leave a ministry or dream or idea to somebody else because we can’t think that we are capable. To see yourself rightly is more important that seeing your future rightly.  In fact if you see yourself rightly a new future will appear.   There is a small future for the small self that you see yourself as now and a bigger future for the you, you really are.

Friend, there is a "smaller" future for the small self that you might see yourself as now and a bigger future for the you, you really are.