How do you view yourself?  Do you see yourself through the eyes of your history, or can you see the truth of what God has called you to be?   How we view ourselves governs how we live our lives today and what kind of tomorrow we are expecting and building.  Many of us are governed primarily by our history.  I believe  there is a better government for our lives than our history.  It is the government of what God has promised.  We can choose to see our lives as God sees them.  When we do this, we can expect to have a hopeful future.  We can learn to throw off our historic life view and embrace a prophetic life view.  A prophetic life view is simply living our lives according to the promises and plans that the Lord has prepared for us.

Through Jesus Christ, God has planned and paid for abundant life; life that far surpasses any history we have had.  No matter what our background, God is able to break the mind sets of history if we let Him.

His word is full of prophetic promises and He is looking for us to embrace them and believe that they will be fulfilled in our lives.  Even the way he created us, with eyes in the front of our head and our feet pointing forward points to living a life that moves ahead, not one that is always looking behind.  We have a great and wide open and expansive future in Jesus, if we can only come out of the dominions and limits of the past to embrace it.
 
Consider what the scriptures say in Isaiah 43:18-19 “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know t? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert”.
 We are instructed to let go of anything in the past that keeps us from the promise of our future.  God Himself will make ways where there are none if we are willing to do our part.

Let's consider some practical steps to change our life view from historic to prophetic.
Getting rid of hindrances to your promised future
 

• Empty yourself of your history when it opposes your future.
• Break the mold (form, image) of the past and be reformed.
• Owe up to your failures, but don't beat yourself up.
• Stop blaming others for your problems.
• Forgive all those who have hurt, failed you, disappointed you, or transgressed in any way.
• Stop talking or comparing these days (or future days) with the past.
• Don’t embrace your present conditions as the evidence of your future conditions.
• Repent of besetting sins and compromises.

Steps into your promised and hopeful future
 

• Receive the promise of God by faith.
• Confess your faith.
• Be renewed in the life of your mind.
• Be thankful, give God praise.
• Make change your friend.
• Live like you mean it.
• Grow up!
• Treat others in a way that honors and encourages their God given future.
• Live like the best is yet to come! Because it is.

 May the Lord show Himself strong on your behalf as you choose to live your life by what He says it is, according to the scriptures and the revelations He has given you, and not by what your history has told you it is.

Philippians 3:12-16
12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.
13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
15 So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.
16 Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that.