Manifestation: listeners question

Something keeps popping into my head and I am hoping you can shed some light on it. Hopefully I will be able to explain what the question is. I have an understanding through your teachings that we really don’t have any control over the future – that we are life experiencing itself. That life happens from moment to moment. I also keep hearing in the spiritual world about manifestation… about being able to manifest your future. I am wondering if I have some missing understanding here as this is confusing. One of these statements somewhat contradicts the other? I am probably spending too much time ’thinking and trying to work this out and hence not hearing the answer’, so I wondered if you would be able to unpick this and make any sense of it?