title: Anointed to Roar: Unleashing the Lion Within
author: Dr Brian Alton
description: Dr. Brian Alton PhD, is the Founding Pastor and Chancellor of Desert Rose Community Church and Gateway International Bible Institute in Glendale, AZ. He is a popular conference speaker and is used by God to help others experience a higher dimension of spiritual maturity and freedom. He has a powerful Psalmist anointing which releases healing and draws the manifest presence of the Lord. Dr. Alton is an Apostolic and Prophetic voice to Arizona and the Nations. He trains, and oversees several leaders and other ministry organizations around the world. His desire is to expand the Kingdom of God by empowering people to move towards their purpose and destiny. Brian resides in Surprise, AZ with his wife Phaedra, his two sons, Brian, Michael, and daughter, Abigail.
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  Androcles and the Lion
  
  
    
    
  [PROLOGUE  
    
  ](Androcles%20and%20the%20Lion_split_001.html#filepos1551)[ACT I  
    
  ](Androcles%20and%20the%20Lion_split_001.html#filepos12725)[ACT II
  
  
  
  
  
  # Androcles and the Lion
  
  
  ### George Bernard Shaw
  
  
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  * PROLOGUE
  
  
  * ACT I
  
  
  * ACT II
  
  
  
  
  
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  This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PROLOGUE
  
  
  Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly.
  
  
  A jungle path. A lion's roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes
  
  
  from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the
  
  
  jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge
  
  
  thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes
  
  
  it. He tries to extract it by scraping it along the ground, and hurts
  
  
  himself worse. He roars piteously. He licks it again. Tears drop fro