Am I able to re-sync my contacts onto iMessage?

I was messing around on my iMessage settings on my macbook, and somehow un-synced all of my contacts. It is now only bringing up numbers, instead of their names. My contact book still has all of my contacts in it, but I don't know how to get it to re-sync with my iMessage app. It is working fine syncing conversatinos with my iPhone 5 still.

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