Paul's Vision - Acts 18:9-10

Here is a dream that God gave  me.....this occurred actually in August of 2013....my first vision where I understood that God could talk to us this way, and I had been asking Him to give me a vision...

 
   I am in a class at a table where there are items in front of me.  I am aware that I must put them together. The item that stands out the most is the red strawberries, and another item is a chocolate/dark mixture in a bowl that I perceive as pudding.  I begin to remove the stems of the strawberries and add the strawberries to the pudding. 
   As I am doing this, the instructor (a voice in front of the classroom) is giving directions, and then states, "What you are doing could bring danger."  Right after hearing this, feeling fear,  I quickly attempted to pull off the stem of the last strawberry (but I did not do it perfectly) and added the strawberry to the mixture.  I perceive that others in the class did not complete the task, but I was the only one who did. 
    At that moment I cried out, "God protect me!"   A voice - strong, booming, and giving a sense of authority - entered into my dream from outside, surrounding me, and said, "You are protected!"  This I believe with all my heart was God speaking.  Then, I looked down as the bowl of pudding was moved out before me.  I was not the one moving it.  The rich, bright red color was swirled perfectly in the pudding with green mint leaves in the middle!   A product of perfection!   I then awoke.


   Right after I awoke, the Holy Spirit impressed upon my heart that it was from Him.  I sought God for the translation of this dream, and waited.  Just days later, God answered this request.  He brought a verse to my attention from the Word of God.  This, I found out, is the way God translates His dreams and visions to us - using a Truth from the Word of God!
    He allowed circumstances to bring me to read one of Wisdom Hunter's Devotion's where the verse was just waiting for me to read it.  It was Acts 18:9!  When I saw it, the Holy Spirit made the verse stand out to me in an unusual way.  Just before the Holy Spirit brought this verse to my attention, I had told Him that I would not speak anymore of what God had brought me through, and what He had taught me.  Obviously, He made it clear that He did not want me to stay silent.....

    My dream was in correlation with the vision that Paul had in Acts 18:9-10.  Here it is....


⁹ "One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.”  


 As you read on in the passage of Acts 18 (see below), you will see that God called Paul to strengthen Believers of his time.   I trust that God has called me to do very much the same.   May I serve Him to the fullest of what He has called me to do in these final days!

¹¹ So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
¹² While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews of Corinth made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the place of judgment. ¹³ “This man,” they charged, “is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”
¹⁴ Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to them, “If you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to listen to you. ¹⁵ But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law—settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.” ¹⁶ So he drove them off."