Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy 2:1 - Evangelistic Prayer

Are we to pray for the lost? Or are we just to pray for those who are laboring among the lost as Jesus commanded in Matthew 9:37-38: Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”Some have contended that we should only pray for those witnessing and not for the lost. I cannot agree with such assertions, and the first part of 1 Timothy 2 is one reason why.