Why am i not receiving iMessages on my phone but when i log onto my mac they are all there?

I am not getting my iMessages on my phone. but when in log onto my mac they come up on my messages here. what can i do o fix this i need to be able to recieve meaages on my phone on the go.

I think you answered your own question.  If I read what your wrote correctly, you sent yourself a message to your phone number and you are wondering why it was not recieved on your iPad?  If that is what you wrote, the reason is your iPad is not a cell phone and messages sent to a cell number, will not be received on your iPad.  To send a message from your iPhone to your iPad using iMessage, you need to send the message to the email address you specified when you set up iMessage on your iPad. 

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