Believe on Jesus Christ

We are born again by the Word of God and the Spirit of God (John 3).  It gives us faith and repentance to receive Christ as our Lord and Savior.  The soul remains passive and the Spirit comes to regenerate us.  We come with empty hands of faith to our Savior and Lord.  Everyone who believes has been born again. 

First you have to acknowledge, confess and forsake your total depravity:

Romans 3 KJV
 ⁹What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
 ¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
 ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
 ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 ¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
 ¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
 ¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:
 ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:
 ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:
 ¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.
 ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Forsake your wicked thoughts:

Isaiah 55:7 KJV
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Let's look at the verses that speak on being born again:

John 3 KJV
 ³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
 ⁴Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
 ⁵Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
 ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
 ⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
 ⁸The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Titus 3 KJV
 ⁴But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
 ⁵Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
 ⁶Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
 ⁷That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
 ⁸This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Ezekiel 11:19 KJV
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

Ezekiel 36:26 KJV
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Let's look at the verses that speak about the aftermath of being born again:

Genesis 15:6 KJV
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

John 1:7 KJV
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

John 3:15 KJV
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:18 KJV
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

John 3:36 KJV
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Romans 4 KJV
 ¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
 ²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
 ³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
 ⁴Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
 ⁵But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
 ⁶Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
 ⁷Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
 ⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
 ⁹Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.