Yes we do. Scripture tells us we couldn’t do that without having first been given the Holy Spirit through salvation by grace through the faith of Christ.
>> So for me repent was not a work at all. By faith in His Grace, the Holy Spirit stuck my nose in my filth and tongue and heart rolled out the sins like it was "This was your Life."<<
That is what Paul teaches. The actions follow the salvation which is itself precipitated by the working of the Holy Spirit within us. We couldn’t even call on the name of the Lord without the working of the Holy Spirit within us. Salvation has already happened. Then the repenting etc. Repentance is not a “condition for salvation” but the result of it.
Indeed. Like a tsunami engulfs the shore and takes everything in its path.