That's funny, because I got filled with the Holy Spirit before I did ANYTHING. ANYTHING. I think that's because, the Bible calls the Holy Spirit a GIFT. That means, you can't earn it with your works or "denying of self". He is granted freely to all believers.
"1": What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
"2": God forbid. How shall we, that are to sin, live any longer therein?
"3": Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his ?
"4": Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into : that like as Christ was raised up from the by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
"5": For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his , we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
"6": Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
"7": For he that is is freed from sin.
"8": Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
"9": Knowing that Christ being raised from the dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
"10": For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
"11": Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
"12": Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
"13": Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the , and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.