Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Before I was born again, I often delighted in wicked ways, in being intelligent or superior, in reading books where characters were on brink of what I now know to be adultery.
After I was born again, I shunned such things.
I was completely different after I was born again.
Certainly we are changed many times after we are born again as we see a scripture and conform ourselves to that scripture, being recreated over and over into the image of Christ by doing the scriptures.
Now we see sin. We have the Holy Spirit to show us truth and convict us of sin. We do not want to go in the way of sin. Now we want to avoid sin. Now I skip those pages in a book to avoid the sections where adultery is about to surface, or I completely put that book away from me.
If I feel I'm in danger of sinning, I call on God for help and God always answers my prayer and helps me, keeping me from that sin.
Certainly we are warned by the Holy Spirit and kept by the Holy Spirit when we make choices to go in God's way.
*****
Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at MY reproof: behold, I will pour out MY spirit unto you, I will make known MY words unto you.
Proverbs 1:33 Whoso hearkeneth unto ME shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
*****
Proverbs 2:1-6 My son, if thou wilt receive MY words, and hide MY commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of HIS mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7-8 HE layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: HE is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. HE keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of HIS saints.
*****
Proverbs 2:10-15 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion (separation) shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
*****
After we are born again, we make very different choices because now we have the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, in us.
*****