Are conditions in the church too far gone to expect revival today?
God says in Romans 5:20, "where sin increased, grace was in greater abundance." The conditions described by God in II Chronicles 7:12-14 are completely negative, with God's people under His judgment. Yet those very circumstances are the setting for God's brightest promises of attention, forgiveness and healing! The prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:2), in which he pleads for REVIVAL, is made in the very setting of God's wrath.
Even a surface reading of the book of Judges will show that at the times of Israel's greatest backslidings, God brought His greatest revivals, because the need was greatest.
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost with all the attendant blessings came in the setting of Israel's greatest sin, when she had rejected and crucified her King and Saviour.
All through the history of the church her times of most powerful revival have come when she was the most backslidden and powerless.
I have no doubt this is why God is sending revival in our day. The question pre-supposed that revival tarries. Such is not the case! God is already at work in powerful revival in many churches both on the American continent and around the world!
Many have thought that true revival would change the whole church suddenly and dramatically. Such has never been the case. The Wesleyan revival covered a period of fifty years, in which it slowly expanded until it produced a powerful, living church that even changed the history of nations. It never did revitalize some of the existing church structure of that day, nor will it be different in our day.
Both scripture and history proclaim that no church is too far gone for God to revive. If His people will humble themselves, pray, seek His face and turn from their wicked ways.